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Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies

TA-10-2024-0024 · P10_TA(2024)0024 · PE763.032

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Parliament approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024, which updates revenue forecasts and adjusts funding for decentralised agencies. It notes lower customs duties and UK contribution, leading to higher GNI contributions, and calls for better forecasting. It urges progress on own resources reform and fresh financing for new priorities, and regrets redeployments from programmes to agencies.

Key points

  1. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2024.
  2. Welcomes the draft amending budget as submitted by the Commission.
  3. Notes that lower own resources and UK contribution increase GNI contributions by EUR 5.63 billion; calls for improved forecasting.
  4. Underlines that GNI lump-sum reductions for five Member States amount to just under EUR 5.4 billion net, and that rebates are inflation-linked.
  5. Deplores lack of progress on own resources reform; urges Council and Member States to adopt amended Commission proposals swiftly.
  6. Recalls position that fines and fees should be supplementary revenue for the Union budget.
  7. Reiterates that new priorities require fresh financing; notes adjustments to decentralised agencies' budgets.
  8. Regrets that EUR 1.5 billion has been or is proposed to be redeployed from programmes to agencies in the current MFF.
  9. Notes an increase of EUR 2 million for Eurojust due to inflation; considers treatment of agencies' budgets needs reflection.

Who is affected

  • Decentralised agencies, including the European Medicines Agency and Eurojust, receive adjusted funding.
  • Member States contributing to the EU budget face higher GNI contributions due to lower other revenue.
  • Five beneficiary Member States receive GNI lump-sum reductions of just under EUR 5.4 billion net.

Figures and deadlines

  • Customs duties forecast is 18.3% below May 2023 forecast.
  • VAT base forecast is 0.6% below May 2023 forecast.
  • Plastic packaging waste forecast is up 0.6% compared to May 2023.
  • Total EU GNI base is 0.3% higher than May 2023 forecast.
  • United Kingdom contribution stands at EUR 2.38 billion, a reduction of EUR 1.52 billion.
  • Fines and penalties forecast increased by EUR 513 million.
  • Net increase of EUR 12 million for decentralised agencies; Flexibility Instrument mobilised for EUR 13.2 million.
  • Increase in GNI contributions of EUR 5.63 billion.

Legal basis: Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community.