Raad neemt positie in over EU-begroting voor 2014 (en)

COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Brussels, 2 September 2013 (OR. en) PRESSE 360

Council adopts position on 2014 EU budget

The Council today¹ adopted² its position on the 2014 EU draft budget ( + ADD 1 + ADD 2 + ADD 3 + ADD 4 + ADDS), the first annual budget relating to the period of the new multiannual financial framework (MFF) covering the years 2014-2020 on which a political agreement was reached by the Council and the European  iParliament at the end of June

The Council's position thoroughly respects the expenditure ceilings of the new MFF while keeping appropriate margins in order to meet possible unforeseen expenditure needs

The Council's position amounts to

EUR 142.23 billion in commitments³ (EUR 141.77 billion if specific instruments outside the multiannual financial framework are excluded; this would leave a margin of EUR 769.25 million);

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  EUR 135.00 billion in payments⁴ (EUR 134.80 billion if specific instruments

outside the multiannual financial framework are excluded; this would leave a margin of EUR 1.06 billion)

Compared to the 2013 EU budget as amended by amending budget no 1, commitments decrease by EUR 9.33 billion or 6.15% and payments increase by EUR 1.79 billion or

The decision was taken by written procedure

The Belgian, Danish and United Kingdom delegations abstained

Commitments are legal promises to spend money for activities whose

implementation might extend over several financial years

This corresponds to 1.00% of the EU's gross national income

1.35%

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Compared to the amounts proposed by the Commission, the Council's position provides for a reduction by EUR 240.68 million in commitments and EUR 1.06 billion in payments

New programmes and actions, such as the youth employment initiative, are exempted from reductions which have been targeted on the basis of past and current budget implementation and realistic absorption capacities

The Council's position serves as a mandate to the Lithuanian presidency to negotiate next year's EU budget with the European Parliament, which is expected to adopt its amendments to the Council's position in the week starting on 21 October. If the Council's and the Parliament's positions diverge, a three-week conciliation period will start on 24 October (until 13 November included) {see flow-chart in the annex).

A summary of the draft Council's position is set out in the tables below:

Multiannual Financial Framework

AB: Amending budget

DB: Draft budget

Outside MFF

AB: Amending budget DB: Draft budget

Multiannual Financial Framework + outside MFF

AB: Amending budget DB: Draft budget

Annex

Budget procedure Lisbon Treaty (Art. 314)

Commission presents Council (CNS) and European Parliament (EP) draft budget until 1 September of year n-1

CMS adopts its position by qualified majority (q.m.) on the draft budgetand forwards it to the EP until 10ctober n-1

EP adopts amendments by a majority of its members

EP approves the position of the CMS within 42 days or does not take a decision

Presidents of the CHS and of the EP convene a Conciliation Committee (CC), composed of 27 members of the CNS and 27 oftheEP

Budget finally adopted *

CC tries to reach agreement on a joint text within 21 days, by q. m. of the CNS and a majority of the representatives of the EP If the CC agrees on a joint text the CNS and the EP have each a period of 14 days to approve it If the CC does not reach agreement on a joint text, the Commission shalll submit a new draft budget

EP and CNS approve the joint text or fail totakea decision, or one institution approves the text while the other does not take a decision

Budget finally adopted

EP (by a majority of its members) and

CNS reject the text, or one institution rejects it while the

other does not take a decision

EP (by a majority of its members) rejects the text, while the CNS approves it

Commission shall submit a new draft budget

EP approves the text, while the CNS rejects it

EPmay (by a majority of its members and three-fifths of the votes cast) decide to confirm all or some of itsamendments. Where an EP amendment is not confirmed, the position agreed in the CC is retained

CC = Conciliation Committee

CNS = found/

EP = Eampam Parliament

q.m. = qualified majority

Annex