European Parliament resolution on Draft amending budget No 4/2006 of the European Union for the financial year 2006, Section III - Commission (11298/2006 - C6-0247/2006 - 2006/2149(BUD))
Date: 2006-09-27
Institutions: Committee on Budgets, European Parliament
Subjects: European Commission, amending budget, budgetary resources, draft budget (EU), financial year

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C. whereas the Council, in its DAB No 3/2006, has decided to cover all proposed increases exclusively

through redeployment,

D. whereas, in particular, the Council wants to finance the additional needs of the European Data-protec-
tion Supervisor by reducing commitments and payments of an administrative line in the Commission
section of the budget, which falls under Heading 3 of the Financial Perspective 2000-2006,

E. whereas Parliament agrees with the Commission's Declaration on DAB No 3/2006 in that this would
create a dangerous precedent for all institutions as it aims to finance, during the implementation of the
budget, the administrative expenditure of one institution by taking the necessary appropriations from
the budget of another institution,

Supports the increases proposed by the Commission in its PDAB No 3/2006 for the European GNSS
1.
Supervisory Authority, the European Aviation Safety Agency, the European Agency for the Management of
Operational Cooperation at the External Borders and the European Data-protection Supervisor;

Considers it too early in the budgetary year, however, to make up at this point for the necessary

2.
increases in these lines by reducing other lines which still might be fully implemented in 2006;

3.
Rejects, therefore, Council's intention to cover the requests for additional appropriations through rede-
ployment and, in particular, compensate for the increase asked for by the European Data-protection Super-
visor by decreasing the Commission's section of the budget;

4.

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.

P6_TA(2006)0377

Draft amending budget No 4/2006

European Parliament resolution on Draft amending budget No 4/2006 of the European Union for
financial year 2006, Section III — Commission (11298/2006 — C6-0247/2006 —
the

2006/2149(BUD))

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 272(4),

penultimate subparagraph, thereof,

— having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular

Article 177 thereof,

— 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 in particular Arti-
cles 37 and 38 thereof,

— having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2006, as finally

adopted on 15 December 2005 (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 4/2006 of the European Union for the finan-

cial year 2006, which the Commission presented on 16 June 2006 (SEC(2006)0760),

(1) OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 78, 15.3.2006.
(3) OJ C 172, 18.6.1999, p. 1. Agreement as last amended by Decision 2005/708/EC of the European Parliament and of

the Council (OJ L 269, 14.10.2005, p. 24).

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— having regard to Draft amending budget No 4/2006, which the Council established on 17 July 2006

(11298/2006 — C6-0247/2006),

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

— having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A6-0284/2006),

A. whereas Draft amending budget No 4/2006 relates to the revenue side of the budget and comprises a
number of elements affecting the level of contributions from Member States to the Community's own
resources,

B. whereas these elements relate to the annual revision of the forecasts for traditional own resources, VAT
bases, GNI bases and a technical re-calculation of the contributions necessary to finance the UK rebate
repayment as well as to the surplus from the Guarantee Fund for external measures from 2005,

C. whereas the Brussels European Council of December 2005 invited the Commission to undertake a full
and wide-ranging review of all areas of EU expenditure and revenue, including the British rebate, with a
view to presenting a report, accompanied by appropriate proposals, in 2008/2009,

D. whereas in undertaking this review and in drawing up its proposals, the Commission shall take into
account the work and recommendations of the European Parliament, in accordance with the terms of
Declaration No 3 annexed to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 on budgetary discipline
and sound financial management (1),

E. whereas Parliament has entered into a dialogue with the national parliaments with the aim of jointly
contributing to this planned comprehensive review of the own resources system in full respect of its
established rights,

1.

2.

Approves Draft amending budget No 4/2006 unamended;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.

(1) OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

P6_TA(2006)0378

Progress ***II

European Parliament legislative resolution on the Council common position for adopting a decision
of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Community Programme for Employ-
ment and Social Solidarity — Progress (6282/3/2006 — C6-0272/2006 — 2004/0158(COD))

(Codecision procedure: second reading)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Council common position (6282/3/2006 — C6-0272/2006),

— having regard to its position at first reading (1) on the Commission proposal to Parliament and the

Council (COM(2004)0488) (2),

— having regard to the amended Commission proposal (COM(2005)0536) (2),

(1) OJ C 193 E, 17.8.2006, p. 99.
(2) Not yet published in OJ.