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On the Council position on Draft amending budget No 10/2020 of the European Union for the financial year 2020 - Increase of payment appropriations in line with updated forecasts of expenditure and other adjustments to expenditure and revenue

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On the Council position on Draft amending budget No 10/2020 of the European Union for the financial year 2020 - Increase of payment appropriations in line with updated forecasts of expenditure and other adjustments to expenditure and revenue

Report A-9-2020-0252 · 13643/2020 – C90395/2020 – 2020/0298(BUD)

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Plenary report A-9-2020-0252
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10 December 2020
Committee
Committee on Budgets
Rapporteur
Monika Hohlmeier
Dossier
2020-0298
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Parliament's resolution on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 10/2020 for the 2020 financial year. It approves the Council position and takes note of the draft, which raises payment appropriations by EUR 1 569,3 million and adjusts revenue and some expenditure. The increase covers headings 1a, 1b, 2 and 4, including support for SMEs, farmers and partner countries hit by the Covid-19 crisis. Savings at decentralised agencies cut payment appropriations by EUR 9,1 million, and fines and penalty payments reduce member states' own resources contributions.

Position. The Committee on Budgets takes note of Draft amending budget No 10/2020 as submitted by the Commission and approves the Council position on it.

Key points

  1. The draft amending budget raises payment appropriations in line with updated forecasts, adjusts revenue for exchange rate differences and extra fines, and makes limited expenditure adjustments for the European Agriculture Guarantee Fund and some decentralised agencies.
  2. It proposes an overall increase in payment appropriations of EUR 1 569,3 million under headings 1a, 1b, 2 and 4.
  3. EUR 93,8 million in payment appropriations will help honour Loan Guarantee Facility obligations within COSME to support SMEs hit by the economic consequences of Covid-19.
  4. EUR 750 million in additional payment appropriations under EAFRD will finance lump-sum payments to relieve farmers and small and medium-sized agri-businesses affected by COVID-19.
  5. EUR 586 million in payment appropriations will support the Global EU response for partner countries through IPA II, ENI and DCI.
  6. A review of budget implementation at decentralised agencies identified savings that reduce payment appropriations by EUR 9,1 million.
  7. Fines and penalty payments of EUR 128 million collected until the end of September 2020 helped reduce member states' own resources contributions to the Union budget.
  8. The overall impact on the revenue side is a decrease of EUR 588 million in other revenue, rebalanced by a corresponding increase in GNI contributions.
  9. Parliament takes note of the draft amending budget as submitted by the Commission and approves the Council position on it.

Who is affected

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises: supported through the COSME Loan Guarantee Facility against the economic effects of Covid-19.
  • Farmers and small and medium-sized agri-businesses: receive lump-sum payments under EAFRD for COVID-19 relief.
  • Partner countries: supported through IPA II, ENI and DCI under the Global EU response.
  • Decentralised agencies (ESMA, EIOPA, EBA and ELA): their savings reduce payment appropriations.
  • Member states: their own resources contributions are reduced by fines and penalty payments and rebalanced by higher GNI contributions.

Figures and deadlines

  • EUR 1 569,3 million: overall increase in payment appropriations.
  • EUR 93,8 million: payment appropriations for the COSME Loan Guarantee Facility.
  • EUR 750 million: additional payment appropriations under EAFRD.
  • EUR 586 million: payment appropriations for the Global EU response.
  • EUR 9,1 million: reduction in payment appropriations from agency savings.
  • EUR 128 million: fines and penalty payments collected until the end of September 2020.
  • EUR 588 million: decrease in other revenue on the revenue side.

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.

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Motion for a european parliament resolution

on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 10/2020 of the European Union for the financial year 2020 - Increase of payment appropriations in line with updated forecasts of expenditure and other adjustments to expenditure and revenue

(13643/2020 – C90395/2020 – 2020/0298(BUD))

The European Parliament,

–having regard to Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

–having regard to Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,

–having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012, and in particular Article 44 thereof,

–having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020, as definitively adopted on 27 November 2019,

–having regard to Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013 of 2 December 2013 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-2020 (MFF Regulation),

–having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management,

–having regard to Council Decision 2014/335/EU, Euratom of 26 May 2014 on the system of own resources of the European Union,

–having regard to Draft amending budget No 10/2020, which the Commission adopted on 9 October 2020 (COM(2020)0962),

–having regard to the position on Draft amending budget No 10/2020 which the Council adopted on 8 December 2020 and forwarded to Parliament on 9 December 2020 (13643/2020 – C90395/2020),

–having regard to Rule 94 of its Rules of Procedure,

–having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A9-0252/2020),

A.whereas the purpose of Draft amending budget No 10/2020 is to increase the level of payment appropriations in line with the updated forecast and after having taken into account the redeployments proposed in the "Global transfer" (DEC 16/2020), to adjust the revenue side to incorporate the impact of exchange rate differences and additional fines collected, and to budget further more limited expenditure adjustments concerning the level of appropriations of the European Agriculture Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and some decentralised agencies (ESMA, EIOPA, EBA and ELA),

B.whereas Draft amending budget No 10/2020 proposes an overall increase in payment appropriations of EUR 1 569,3 million concerning headings 1a 'Competitiveness for Growth and Jobs', 1b 'Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion', 2 'Sustainable Growth – Natural Resources' and 4 'Global Europe',

C.whereas payment appropriations of EUR 93,8 million will help honour obligations of the Loan Guarantee Facility within COSME to support SMEs hit by economic consequences of Covid-19,

D.whereas EUR 750 million in additional payment appropriations under EAFRD will in particular finance lump-sum payments to provide relief to farmers and small-medium sized agri-businesses affected by COVID-19,

E.whereas payment appropriations of EUR 586 million will support the Global EU response to help partner countries via the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA II), the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) and the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI),

F.whereas the careful review of the budget implementation of decentralised agencies has identified savings, which contribute to reducing payment appropriations by EUR 9,1 million,

G.whereas fines and penalty payments of EUR 128 million cashed until the end of September 2020 have helped to reduce the own resources contributions from Member States to the Union budget,

H.whereas the overall proposed impact of Draft amending budget No 10/2020 on the revenue side is a decrease of EUR 588 million in other revenue rebalanced by a corresponding increase in the GNI contributions,

1.Takes note of Draft amending budget No 10/2020 as submitted by the Commission, which is devoted, in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, to providing EUR 1 569,3 million in additional payment appropriations after having taken into account the redeployments proposed in the "Global transfer", to adjust the revenue side and to budget further more limited expenditure adjustments;

2.Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 10/2020;

3.Instructs its President to declare that Amending budget No 10/2020 has been definitively adopted and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;

4.Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.

Back matter, 1

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Information on adoption in committee responsible 1 block
Table from the text: Date adopted
Date adopted10.12.2020
Result of final vote+: –: 0:36 2 1
Members present for the final voteRasmus Andresen, Robert Biedroń, Anna Bonfrisco, Olivier Chastel, Lefteris Christoforou, David Cormand, Paolo De Castro, José Manuel Fernandes, Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Vlad Gheorghe, Elisabetta Gualmini, Francisco Guerreiro, Valérie Hayer, Eero Heinäluoma, Niclas Herbst, Monika Hohlmeier, Moritz Körner, Joachim Kuhs, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, Ioannis Lagos, Hélène Laporte, Pierre Larrouturou, Janusz Lewandowski, Margarida Marques, Siegfried Mureşan, Victor Negrescu, Andrey Novakov, Jan Olbrycht, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Bogdan Rzońca, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Nils Torvalds, Nils Ušakovs, Johan Van Overtveldt, Rainer Wieland, Angelika Winzig
Substitutes present for the final voteDamian Boeselager, Herbert Dorfmann, Petros Kokkalis

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Final vote by roll call in committee responsible 3 blocks

36 · For

EPP
Lefteris Christoforou, Herbert Dorfmann, José Manuel Fernandes, Niclas Herbst, Monika Hohlmeier, Janusz Lewandowski, Siegfried Mureşan, Andrey Novakov, Jan Olbrycht, Rainer Wieland, Angelika Winzig
S&D
Robert Biedroń, Paolo De Castro, Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Elisabetta Gualmini, Eero Heinäluoma, Pierre Larrouturou, Margarida Marques, Victor Negrescu, Nils Ušakovs
Renew
Olivier Chastel, Vlad Gheorghe, Valérie Hayer, Moritz Körner, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Nils Torvalds
ID
Hélène Laporte
Greens
Rasmus Andresen, Damian Boeselager, David Cormand, Francisco Guerreiro
ECR
Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, Bogdan Rzońca, Johan Van Overtveldt
GUE/NGL
Petros Kokkalis, Dimitrios Papadimoulis

2 · Against

ID
Joachim Kuhs
No group
Ioannis Lagos

1 · Abstained

ID
Anna Bonfrisco

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European Parliament (2020). “REPORT on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 10/2020 of the European Union for the financial year 2020 - Increase of payment appropriations in line with updated forecasts of expenditure and other adjustments to expenditure and revenue”. Text, 10 December 2020. docId A-9-2020-0252, reference A9-0252/2020. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/A-9-2020-0252 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: The text on the European Parliament’s website, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2020-0252_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/A-9-2020-0252 (CC BY 4.0).
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