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# 52005BP0253

**European Parliament resolution on Draft amending budget No 2/2005 of the European Union for the financial year 2005 - Salary adjustment (9491/2005 - C6-0172/2005 - 2005/2045(BUD)) **

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Official Journal 133 E , 08/06/2006 P. 0103 - 0104 *

P6_TA(2005)0253

Draft amending budget 2/2005

European Parliament resolution on Draft amending budget No 2/2005 of the European Union for the financial year 2005 — Salary adjustment (9491/2005 — C6-0172/2005 — 2005/2045(BUD))

The European Parliament,

- having regard to Article 272 of the EC Treaty and Article 177 of the Euratom Treaty,

- having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities [1], and particularly Articles 37 and 38 thereof,

- having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2005, as finally adopted on 16 December 2004 [2],

- having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure [3],

- having regard to Preliminary draft amending budget No 2/2005 of the European Union for the financial year 2005, which the Commission presented on 30 March 2005 (SEC(2005)0421),

- having regard to Draft amending budget No 2/2005, which the Council established on 30 May 2005 (9491/2005 — C6-0172/2005),

- having regard to Rule 69 of and Annex IV of its Rules of Procedure,

- having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A6-0190/2005),

A. whereas the 2004 salary adjustment for staff was lower than expected,

B. whereas the budgetary authority requested the institutions to submit estimates to adjust their administrative expenditure as a result of the salary adjustment,

C. whereas the declaration by the budgetary authority of 25 November 2004 [4] requested that the amending budget in question contain exclusively the reductions of appropriations for administrative expenditure of the institutions resulting from the annual adaptation of the salaries and pensions,

D. whereas the Commission proposal also included some administrative issues not relating to the salary adjustment,

1. Agrees to the salary adjustments of the European Parliament, the Council, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Ombudsman and the European Data-protection Supervisor as adopted in Council's Draft amending budget No 2/2005;

2. Decides to adjust the salaries and pensions in the Commission's budget as proposed in Preliminary draft amending budget No 2/2005 and has presented a budgetary amendment to this effect;

3. Agrees to the establishment plan (Court of Auditors and European Data-protection Supervisor) and nomenclature changes (Commission) as adopted in Council's Draft amending budget No 2/2005;

4. 4 Decides to adapt the revenue calculations (Economic and Social Committee and Publications Office) as proposed in Preliminary draft amending budget No 2/2005 and has presented two budgetary amendments to this effect;

5. Instructs its President to forward this resolution together with the amendments to Draft amending budget No 2/2005 to the Council and the Commission and the other institutions and bodies concerned.

[1] OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.

[2] OJ L 60, 8.3.2005, p. 1.

[3] OJ C 172, 18.6.1999, p. 1. Agreement amended by Decision 2003/429/EC (OJ L 147, 14.6.2003, p. 25).

[4] Texts Adopted of 16.12.2004, P6_TA(2004)0103.

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