DRAFT AMENDING BUDGET N° 3 TO THE GENERAL BUDGET 2011 STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE BY SECTION Section III - Commission
Date: 2011-04-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU expenditure, European Commission, additional resources, amending budget, draft budget (EU)

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION 

Brussels, 15.4.2011 
COM(2011) 219 final 

 DRAFT AMENDING BUDGET N° 3  
TO THE GENERAL BUDGET 2011 

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE BY SECTION 
Section III - Commission 

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DRAFT AMENDING BUDGET N° 3  
TO THE GENERAL BUDGET 2011 

STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE BY SECTION 
Section III - Commission 

Having regard to: 

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

the  Council  Regulation  (EC,  Euratom)  No  1605/2002  of  25  June  2002  on  the 
Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities1, 
and in particular Article 37 thereof, 

the  general  budget  of  the  European  Union  for  the  financial  year  2011  adopted  on 
15 December 20102, 

the amending budget No 1/2011 adopted on 6 April 2011, 

the draft amending budget No 2/20113, adopted on 25 March 2011. 

The  European  Commission  hereby  presents  to  the  budgetary  authority  the  Draft  Amending 
Budget No 3 to the 2011 budget. 

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CHANGES TO THE GENERAL STATEMENT OF REVENUE 

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The  changes 
revenue  are  available  on  EUR-Lex  
(http://eur-lex.europa.eu/budget/www/index-en.htm).  An  English  version  of  the  changes  to 
this statement is attached for information as a budgetary annex. 

the  general  statement  of 

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

The  present  Draft  Amending  Budget  (DAB)  No  3/2011  is  intended  to  budget  the  surplus 
resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2010. As provided for in the Financial 
Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities4, under Article 15 
§ 3, it is the only subject of this DAB and it has to be submitted within 15 days following the 
submission of the provisional accounts, which took place on 31 March 2011. 

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The implementation of the budget year 2010 shows a surplus of EUR 4 539 394 283 
(not  including  contributions  from  European  Free  Trade  Association  (EFTA)  and 
European Economic Area (EEA)), which is therefore entered as revenue in the 2011 
budget. 

The registering of the surplus can be analysed as follows: 

2010 

EFTA-EEA 

European Union 

Total 

Revenue for the financial year 

229 689 661,00 

(*) 127 565 636 967,52 

127 795 326 628,52 

Payments against current year appropriations 

- 216 638 639,87 

(**) – 120 996 050 692,69 

– 121 212 689 332,56 

Payment appropriations carried over to year N+1 

- 4 518 811,01 

- 1 508 002 468,17 

- 1 512 521 279,18 

Cancellation of unused appropriations carried over 
from year N-1 

Difference between assigned revenue carried over 
from years N-1 to N and N to N+1 

776 730,02 

740 068 183,78 

740 844 913,80 

- 1 284 589 650,14 

- 1 284 589 650,14 

Exchange differences for the year 

22 331 942,47 

22 331 942,47 

Budget outturn 2010 

9 308 940,14 

4 539 394 282,77 

4 548 703 222,91 

(*) Includes assigned revenue receipts of EUR 3 025 463 386,67 
(**) Includes payments against assigned revenue appropriations of EUR 1 740 873 736,53 

The budgeting of the surplus will diminish accordingly the global contribution of the 
Member States to the financing of the EU Budget. This global decrease by Member 
State will also be influenced by the updated own resources forecast (Traditional Own 
Resources  (TOR),  Value  Added  Tax  (VAT)  and  Gross  National  Income  (GNI)) 
including  the  updated  amount  of  the  UK  correction.  In  June,  the  Commission  will 
present, in a separate Draft Amending Budget, updated forecasts, which are expected 
to change further the amounts of the contributions by country. 

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