Council Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 2673/1999 of 13 December 1999 amending the Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977 applicable to the general budget of the European Communities
Date: 1999-12-13
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: financial regulation, general budget (EU)

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC, ECSC, EURATOM) No 2673/1999

of 13 December 1999

amending the Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977 applicable to the general budget of the
European Communities

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 279 thereof,

resources, which ought to be subject to the same budg-
etary procedure and the same rules as
the other
Community bodies which are treated as institutions by
the Financial Regulation;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and
Steel Community, and in particular Article 78h thereof,

(4)

specific sections should therefore be created within the
general budget of the European Union for the Economic
and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions
and the Ombudsman and the provisions of the Financial
Regulation concerning them should be adjusted,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic
Energy Community, and in particular Article 183 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Having regard to the opinions of the Court of Auditors (3),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (4),

After consulting the Committee of the Regions,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

the conciliation provided for in the Joint Declaration by
the European Parliament, the Council and the Commis-
sion of 4 March 1975 (5) has taken place;

it is necessary to amend the Financial Regulation of 21
December 1977 applicable to the general budget of the
European Communities (6), hereinafter referred to as the
‘Financial Regulation’, in order to take account of the
entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam, which
repealed Protocol 16 to the Treaty on European Union
on the
the
Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of
the Regions;

common organisational

structure

for

like the Economic and Social Committee and the
Committee of the Regions, the Ombudsman is treated
by Article 22(5) of the Financial Regulation (7), for the
purposes of that Regulation, as an institution, and is in
financial
increasingly large amounts of
receipt of

(1) OJ C 149, 15.5.1998, p. 21 and OJ C 396, 19.12.1998, p. 18.
(2) OJ C 313, 12.10.1998, p. 4.
(3) OJ C 7, 11.1.1999, p. 1 and OJ C 154, 1.6.1999, p. 5.
(4) OJ C 284, 14.9.1998, p. 54.
(5) OJ C 89, 22.4.1975.
(6) OJ L 356, 31.12.1977, Regulation as last amended by Regulation
(EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 2779/98 (OJ L 347, 23.12.1998, p. 3).
Consolidated version appears in OJ C 80, 25.3.1991, p. 1.

(7) In the version thereof

resulting from Regulation (ECSC, EC,

Euratom) No 1923/94 (OJ L 198, 30.7.1994, p. 4).

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Financial Regulation is hereby amended as follows:

1. In point 3 of Article 7, ‘the Ombudsman’ shall be inserted

after ‘the Committee of the Regions’.

2. Article 12 shall be amended as follows:

(a) the first
following:

subparagraph shall be replaced by the

‘The European Parliament, the Council, the Court of
Justice, the Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social
Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the
Ombudsman shall, each year before 1 July, draw up an
their revenue and expenditure for the
estimate of
following year.’;

(b) the second subparagraph shall be deleted.

3. In Article 14 the first subparagraph shall be replaced by

the following:

‘The Commission may, on its own initiative or if requested
by the European Parliament, the Council, the Court of
Justice, the Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social
Committee,
the
Ombudsman, each in respect of its own section, present to
the Council a letter of amendment to the preliminary draft
budget on the basis of new information which was not
available at the time the preliminary draft was established.’

the Committee of

the Regions or

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4. Article 15(4) shall be replaced by the following:

for

and/or

Requests

amending

‘4.
supplementary
budgets from the European Parliament, the Council, the
Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the Economic and
Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions or the
Ombudsman shall be forwarded by the Commission to the
budgetary authority. The Commission may attach a
dissenting opinion.’

5. Article 19(1) shall be amended as follows:

(a) in the first subparagraph, the second indent shall be

replaced by the following:

‘— separate sections subdivided into statements of
revenue and expenditure of the European Parlia-
ment, the Council, the Commission, the Court of
Justice, the Court of Auditors, the Economic and
Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions
and the Ombudsman.’;

(b) the second and third subparagraphs shall be deleted.

6. In the first indent of point 3 of Article 20, ‘The staff of the
Ombudsman shall be shown separately in Parliament's
establishment plan. The staff of the Economic and Social
Committee,
the Regions and their
common organisational structure shall be shown sepa-
rately in their specific section’ shall be deleted.

the Committee of

7. Article 22 shall be amended as follows:

(a) in paragraph 2, the first subparagraph shall be replaced

by the following:

‘2.
The Commission shall confer upon the European
Parliament, the Council, the Court of Justice, the Court
of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee, the
Committee of the Regions and the Ombudsman the

for
requisite powers
sections of the budget relating to them.’;

implementation of

the

the

(b) the second subparagraph shall be deleted.

8. In the first subparagraph of Article 24, ‘The Economic and
Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions shall
appoint a financial controller by common agreement’ shall
be deleted.

9. In the second subparagraph of Article 25, ‘The Economic
and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
shall appoint an accounting officer by common agreement’
shall be deleted.

10. Article 26 shall be amended as follows:

(a) the second subparagraph of paragraph 2 shall be

replaced by the following:

Justice,

the Court of Auditors,

‘The Court of
the
Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the
regions and the Ombudsman may, within their own
section of the budget, transfer appropriations from one
article to another within each chapter. They shall
inform the budgetary authority and the Commission
three weeks before making such transfers.’;

(b) the third subparagraph of paragraph 4 shall be

replaced by the following:

the other

Institutions,

‘Proposals made by
the
Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the
Regions and the Ombudsman for transfers from one
chapter to another shall be automatically forwarded to
the budgetary authority; the Commission may attach
its own opinion to such proposals.’

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2000.

Article 2

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 13 December 1999.

For the Council

The President

S. HASSI