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# 52012DC0184

**COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Technical adjustment of the financial framework for 2013 in line with movements in GNI /\* COM/2012/0184 final \*/**

  

COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO
THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Technical adjustment of the financial
framework for 2013 in line with movements in GNI

(Point 16 of the Interinstitutional
Agreement of 17 May 2006 on budgetary discipline and sound financial
management)

1.           Introduction

The Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) of 17
May 2006 on budgetary discipline and sound financial management (OJ
C 139/1 of 14/06/2006) contains the financial framework table for EU-27
for the period 2007-2013, expressed in 2004 prices (Table 1).

According to Point 16 of the IIA, the
Commission makes each year, ahead of the budgetary procedure for year n+1, a
technical adjustment to the financial framework in line with movements in the
EU's gross national income (GNI) and prices and communicates the results to the
two arms of the budgetary authority. As far as prices are concerned,
expenditure ceilings at current prices are established using the fixed 2%
deflator foreseen in point 16 of the IIA. As far as movements in GNI are
concerned, the present Communication includes the latest economic forecasts
available.

The purpose of this communication is to present
to the budgetary authority the result of the technical adjustment (EU-27) for
2013 according to Point 16 of the IIA.

2.           Terms of the Adjustment
of the Financial Framework Table (Tables 1-2)

Table 1 shows
the financial framework for EU-27 in 2004 prices as amended by the Decision of
the EP and of the Council of 13 December 2011 to address additional financing
needs of the ITER project[1].

Table 2 shows
the financial framework for EU-27 adjusted for 2013 (i.e. in current prices,
unchanged as compared to the adjustment for additional financing needs of the
ITER project except that the financial framework expressed in percentage of GNI
is updated with the latest economic forecasts available).

2.1.        Total figure for GNI

According to the latest forecast available, the
GNI for 2013 is established at EUR 13 299 204 million in
current prices for EU-27 (according to the last paragraph of Point 16 no
technical adjustments are made in respect of the current year or the past ones;
for information only, the updated GNI is established at EUR 12 893 056
million for 2012, 12 617 848 million for 2011, at EUR 12 257 075 million
for 2010, at EUR 11 643 643 million for 2009, at EUR 12 316 757 million
for 2008 and at EUR 12 262 940 million for 2007).

Since 2010 GNI includes financial
intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM) based on Council Decision 2010/196/EU,
Euratom of 16 March 2010 to apply FISIM for own resources purposes[2] from 1 January 2010 onwards.

2.2.        Main results of the
technical adjustment of the Financial Framework for 2013 (EU-27)

The overall ceiling on commitment
appropriations for 2013 (EUR 152 502 million) equals 1.15 %
of GNI.

The corresponding overall ceiling concerning
the payment appropriations (EUR 143 911 million) equals 1.08 %
of GNI. On the basis of the latest economic forecasts, this leaves a margin
beneath the 1.23 % own resources ceiling of EUR 19 669 million
(0.15 % of GNI for EU-27).

The ceilings for own resources and for
commitment appropriations were adapted following the entry into force of
Decision 2010/196 to apply FISIM for own resources purposes[3].

3.           Other elements linked to
the technical adjustment

3.1.        Heading 5 (Administration)

In the case of heading 5, a footnote to the
financial framework states that the figures for pensions included under the
ceiling for this heading are to be calculated net of staff contributions to the
pension scheme, up to a maximum of EUR 500 million (2004 prices) for the
period 2007-2013. This provision should be interpreted as imposing a dual limit
on the amounts deducted from expenditure on pensions when applying the ceiling
of the heading:

–
This amount may not exceed the contributions
actually entered as budget revenue in any one year;

–
The accumulated total of deductions for the
period 2007-2013 may not exceed EUR 500 million at 2004 prices, equivalent
to an average of EUR 71.4 million.

The recurrent nature of administrative
expenditure imposes that an average limit is adopted annually to avoid using a
margin at the start of the period which would no longer be fully available
afterwards. For 2013 the amount to be deducted is EUR 86.0 million at
current prices.

3.2.        Expenditure items outside
the financial framework 2007-2013

A number of instruments are available outside
expenditure ceilings agreed in the financial framework 2007-2013. These
instruments aim at providing rapid response to exceptional or unforeseen
events, and provide some flexibility beyond the agreed expenditure ceilings
within certain limits:

· the Emergency Aid reserve, which can be mobilised up to a
maximum amount of EUR 221 million per year in 2004 prices, or
EUR 264.1 million in 2013 at current prices (EUR 1 744 million
for the whole period in current prices);

· the EU Solidarity Fund, whose maximum annual amount in
current prices is EUR 1 billion;

· the Flexibility Instrument, with a maximum annual amount in
current prices of EUR 200 million, plus the portion of the unused
annual amounts of the years 2011-2012, which may be carried over to year 2013;

In addition, it will be possible to mobilise
the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) up to a maximum of
EUR 500 million per year in current prices by drawing from any margin
existing under the global ceiling for commitment appropriations of the previous
year, and/or from cancelled commitments from the previous two years (excluding
those related to heading 1b).

4.           Operations outside the
budget and own resources

The fourth subparagraph of Point 11 of the
Interinstitutional Agreement states that information relating to operations not
included in the general budget and the foreseeable development of the various
categories of own resources is to be set out in tables, as an indication, and
updated annually when the technical adjustment is made to the financial
framework.

This information, updated in line with the
latest estimates available, is set out in Tables 3.1 to 3.2. It covers the
European Development Fund (EDF) and the structure of own resources.

ANNEX

TABLE
1: FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK 2007-2013

TABLE
2: FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK (EU-27) ADJUSTED FOR 2013

TABLE
3: INDICATIVE PROGRAMME OF EXPENDITURE NOT ENTERED IN THE GENERAL BUDGET
AND PROSPECTIVE TREND IN THE VARIOUS OWN RESOURCES

[1]               Decision of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 13 December 2011 amending the Interinstitutional
Agreement of 17 May 2006 on budgetary discipline and sound financial management
as regards the multiannual financial framework, to address additional financing
needs of the ITER project (2012/5/EU), OJ L 4, 7.1.2012, p. 12.

[2]               Council Decision 2010/196/EU, Euraton of 16 March
2010 on the allocation of financial intermediation services indirectly measured
(FISIM) for the establishment of the Gross National Income (GNI) used for the
purposes of the European Union's budget and its own resources, OJ L 87,
7.4.2010, p. 31.

[3]               Communication from the Commission to the EP and the
Council on the adaptation of the ceiling of own resources and of the ceiling
for appropriations for commitments following the decision to apply FISIM for
own resources purposes, COM(2010) 162.

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