CELEX: 51980PC0037
Language: en
Date: 1980-01-25
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 1/80 (from compulsory expenditure to non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (80) 37
Vol. 1980/0015
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FINANCIAL YEAR 1980                               COM(80)37   final
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SECTION III ( COMMISSION)
                   TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 1 /80
      ( from compulsory expenditure to non-compulsory expenditure )
From Chapter 92                  Food aid      ( article 921 )
To Chapter 95                    Aid to disaster victims in developing
                                 and other non-mem"ber countries
                                                                 9 700 000 EUA
The Financial Controller endorsed this proposal , thereby certifying that
the appropriations are available - on 25 January 1980 .
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Information supplied to the Commission by the UNHCR indicates that the
500 000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan urgently require food and water , clothing
and shelter , sanitary facilties , small farming equipment , seeds and cattle . The
estimated cost of this is about $72 million .
The Commission considers that a positive response should be given to the request
made to it by the UNHCR , and has therefore decided to back the organization 's
assistance programme by means of a 10 m EJA ( $14 million ) contribution to be
charged against Article 950 ( Aid to disaster victims in developing and other
non-member countries ) and food aid consisting of 12 000 tonnes of cereals ,
300 tonnes of milk powder ana 1 000 tonnes of sugar as part of the food aid
programme ( Chapter 92 - Food aid ), in addition to the 740 tonnes of butteroil
and 600 tonnes of milk powder already allocated in December 1979 *    The total
Community food aid would represent 2.6 m EJA at world prices ( 7*3 m IDA at
Community prices ).
The 10 m EJA contribution to be charged against Article 950 would break down
as follows :
(a)   Immediate aid limited to 300 000 EUA in view of the constraints imposed
      by the provisional twelfths for January and February and in view of
      decisions already taken .
(b )  Aid totalling 9»7 m EUA once the budgetary authority has agreed to this
      transfer request .
As Article 950 of the Draft Budget for 1980 contains only 3 m BiJA , this Article
cannot cover all the second instalment of aid as things stand at present . •
Moreover , the Commission takes the view that it would be unwise to charge
even part of the 9*7 n» HJA against Article 950 since , apart from necessitating
additional twelfths , this would exhaust the funds available under this Article
at the very beginning of the year , and rapid intervention would be impossible
in the event of a disaster in a developing country or other non-member country
later in the year .
The Commission therefore considers that there should be a transfer to Article 950
of 9.7 m ELJA from a Chapter in Title 9 for which the available funds under the
provisional twelfths arrangements are in excess of this amount : only Chapter 92
( Food aid ) comes into this category .
The Commission takes the view that the budgetary authority should take the sum
of 9.7 EUA into account when adopting the 1980 Budget , to ensure that the
implementation of the food aid programme is not jeopardized .
It should be pointed out that this transfer will have no effect on the
implementation of food aid for the coming months since the 1980 food aid programme
has not yet been submitted to the Council . Meanwhile , the Commission will
implement the balance of the 1979 programme .