P9_TA(2022)0108

Draft amending budget No 1/2022: adjustment of the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027

European Parliament resolution of 5 April 2022 on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2022 of the European Union for the financial year 2022 — budgeting the impact for 2022 budget of the Adjustment of the multiannual financial framework in accordance with Article 7 of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 (06310/2022 — C9-0052/2022 — 2022/0018(BUD))

(2022/C 434/20)

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 (1), and in particular Article 44 thereof,

— having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022, as definitively adopted on 24 November 2021 (2),

— having regard to Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 of 17 December 2020 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021-2027 (3) (‘MFF Regulation’),

— having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources (4),

— having regard to Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053 of 14 December 2020 on the system of own resources of the European Union and repealing Decision 2014/335/EU, Euratom (5),

— having regard to Draft amending budget No 1/2022, which the Commission adopted on 28 January 2022 (COM(2022)0081),

— having regard to the position on Draft amending budget No 1/2022, which the Council adopted on 24 February 2022 and forwarded to Parliament on the same day (06310/2022 — C9-0052/2022),

— having regard to Rules 94 and 96 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A9-0051/2022),

A. whereas Draft amending budget No 1/2022 is linked to the adjustment of the multiannual financial framework in accordance with Article 7 of the MFF Regulation, which allows for the transfers of 2021 allocation of commitment appropriations either not used or carried over for nine funds under shared management, in the case of the adoption after 1 January 2021 of new rules or programmes under shared management;

B. whereas commitment appropriations not used in 2021 for programmes under shared management within the meaning of Article 7 of the MFF Regulation amount to EUR 48 988 299 856 in current prices, which corresponds to the entirety of 2021 commitment appropriations that were planned to be implemented in shared management for eight funds, as only the European Agriculture Fund for Rural Development programmes were fully adopted in 2021;

C. whereas that amount is to be transferred in equal proportions to each of the years 2022 to 2025;

D. whereas the purpose of Draft amending budget No 1/2022 is to reflect the specific impact of the transfer of 25 % of the allocations not used in 2021 to the year 2022 for eight funds under shared management (European Regional Development Fund, Cohesion Fund, European Social Fund Plus, European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund, Just Transition Fund, Asylum Migration and Integration Fund, Integrated Border Management Fund and Internal Security Fund);

E. whereas the net impact of Draft amending budget No 1/2022 on expenditure amounts to an increase of EUR 12 247,1 million in commitment appropriations for the various funds under shared management under Headings 2a, 3, 4 and 5; whereas no additional payment appropriations are requested by the Commission;

1. Takes note of Draft amending budget No 1/2022 as submitted by the Commission;

2. Is concerned about the severe delays in the implementation of Union programmes and funds under shared management; reiterates the need for swift implementation to support the Union’s recovery; urges, therefore, all Member States and the Commission to accelerate the implementation of those programmes to ensure they are fully operational in 2022 and to catch up the backlog to ensure the full implementation of the programmes by 2027;

3. Warns about the risks linked to an insufficient level of payment appropriations; recalls its commitment to prevent any future payment crisis, like that experienced at the beginning of the previous multiannual financial framework period; expects, therefore, the Commission to present without delay any draft amending budget that is deemed necessary for an increase of payments linked to an acceleration of Union programmes and funds;

4. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2022;

5. Instructs its President to declare that Amending budget No 1/2022 has been definitively adopted and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union ;

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

(1) OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 45, 24.2.2022, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 11.

(4) OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 28.

(5) OJ L 424, 15.12.2020, p. 1.