# C_2011058EN.01000201.xml

| 24.2.2011 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 58/2 |
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24.2.2011

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 58/2

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Council position on the draft budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011

2011/C 58/02

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 314 thereof, in conjunction with the Treaty establishing the European Atomic and Energy Community, and in particular Article 106a thereof,

Having regard to Council Decision 2007/436/EC, Euratom of 7 June 2007 on the system of the European Communities’ own resources (1),

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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 (2), as last amended by Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1081/2010 of 24 November 2010 (3),

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Having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management, as last amended by Decision 2009/1005/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2009 (4), and in particular the multiannual financial framework provided for in Part I thereof,

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Whereas:

| — | on 26 November 2010, the Commission submitted a proposal containing the new draft budget for the financial year 2011 (5), |
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on 26 November 2010, the Commission submitted a proposal containing the new draft budget for the financial year 2011 (5),

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| — | given the need to adopt a Council position on the new draft budget proposal as soon as possible with a view to a budget being definitively adopted before the beginning of the financial year 2011, thus ensuring the continuity of the Union's action, it is justified to shorten the eight-week period laid down in Article 4 of the Protocol No 1 for the information of the National Parliaments, as well as the ten-day period for the placing of the item on the Council's provisional agenda, in accordance with Article 3(3) of the Council's Rules of Procedure, |
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given the need to adopt a Council position on the new draft budget proposal as soon as possible with a view to a budget being definitively adopted before the beginning of the financial year 2011, thus ensuring the continuity of the Union's action, it is justified to shorten the eight-week period laid down in Article 4 of the Protocol No 1 for the information of the National Parliaments, as well as the ten-day period for the placing of the item on the Council's provisional agenda, in accordance with Article 3(3) of the Council's Rules of Procedure,

HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:

Sole Article

The Council's position on the new draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011 was adopted by the Council on 10 December 2010.

The full text can be accessed for consultation or downloading on the Council's website: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/

Done at Brussels, 10 December 2010.

For the Council

The President

V. VAN QUICKENBORNE

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(1)  OJ L 163, 23.6.2007, p. 17.

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(2)  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1, with corrigenda in OJ L 25, 30.1.2003, p. 43 and in OJ L 99, 14.4.2007, p. 18.

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(3)  OJ L 311, 26.11.2010, p. 9.

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(4)  OJ L 347, 24.12.2009, p. 26.

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(5)  COM(2010) 750 final.

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