Amended proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC, Euratom) amending Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1552/89 of 29 May 1989 implementing Decision 88/376/EEC, Euratom on the system of the Communities' own resources
Date: 1994-06-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: GNP contribution, VAT resource, disclosure of information, financial management, gross national product, own resources

COMMISSION  OF THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

COM(94)  190  final 

Brussels,  03.06.1994 

Amended  proposal  for  a 
COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EC. Euratom) 

amending  Council  Regulation  (EEC, Euratom)  No  1552/89  of  29 May  1989 
implementing  Decision  88/376/EEC, Euratom  on the  system  of 
the  Communities' own  resources 

(presented  by  the  Commission  pursuant  to  Article  189a(2) 
of  the EC  Treaty) 

EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 

On 21 December  1993  the  Commission  presented  a proposal  (COM(93) 683  final)  for a 

Council  Regulation  amending  Council  Regulation 

(EEC,  Euratom)  No  1552/89 

implementing  Decision 88/376/EEC,  Euratom  on  the  system  of  the  Communities'  own 

resources. 

The proposal  suggests  a way of dealing  with  budgetary balances  within the limits of the 
own  resources  ceiling,  the  aim  being  to  ensure  that  if  Community  expenditure  is 
maintained  beneath  the  own  resources  ceiling  each  year,  financial  resources  are  fully 
available for financing Community policies. 

Parliament was consulted by the Council and delivered its opinion on 21 April  1994. 

The Commission, in accordance with Article  189a(2) of the EC Treaty, has now amended 
its  proposal  in  the  light  of  Parliament's  opinion  and  after  agreeing  to  Parliament's 
amendments under the consultation procedure. 

The two  parliamentary  amendments  accepted  by the  Commission  add two  citations and 
two  recitals  which  refer  respectively  to  the  Interinstitutional  Agreement  on  budgetary 
discipline  and  improvement  of the budgetary  procedure  of  29 October  1993,  and  to  the 
undertaking by Parliament and the Council to seek an appropriate solution for the problem 
of dealing with budgetary balances. 

AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION (EC, EURATOM) 
AMENDING COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC, Euratom) No  1552/89 
OF 29 MAY  1989 
IMPLEMENTING DECISION 88/376/EEC, EURATOM 

ON THE SYSTEM OF THE COMMUNITIES' OWN RESOURCES 

In  response  to  the  opinions  delivered  by  Parliament  and  the  Court  of  Auditors,  the 
Commission has amended its proposal as follows: 

After the third citation, the following two citations are inserted: 

"Having  regard 
to  Parliament's  resolution  of  27 October  1993  adopting  an 
Interinstitutional  Agreement  on  budgetary  discipline  and  improvement  of  the  budgetary 
procedure, and in particular paragraphs  10 and  11 thereof; 

Having  regard  to  the  Interinstitutional  Agreement  on  budgetary  discipline  and 
improvement  of  the  budgetary  procedure  of  29 October  1993,'  and  in  particular 
paragraph 7 thereof;" 

Before the first recital, the following two recitals are inserted: 

"Whereas  Parliament  and  the  Council  agreed, 
in  adopting  the  Interinstitutional 
Agreement,  that  every  effort  needed  to  be  made  to  ensure  that  the  appropriations  for 
which  provision  is  made  in  the financial perspective  are  available  to  meet  the  funding 
requirements of Community budgetary  expenditure; whereas  they  accordingly  undertook 
to seek an appropriate solution for the problem of dealing with budgetary balances; 

OJC 331, 7.12.1993, p. 1 

Whereas  paragraph 7  of  that  Interinstitutional  Agreement  confirms  the  undertaking  of 
Parliament, the Council  and the Commission to exercise their respective powers in such a 
way as to comply with the various annual expenditure ceilings during each corresponding 
budgetary procedure and when implementing the budget for the financial year concerned;" 

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