CELEX: 51982DC0752
Language: en
Date: 1982-11-12
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 44/82 (Non-compulsory expenditure)

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COM (82) 752
Vol. 1982/0229
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 ---pagebreak---       COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
         GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1982                                  COM(82)752 final.
         SECTION III - COMMISSION - PART B
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                                 TRANSFER       OP APPROPRIATIONS No 44/82
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                                                                                              ECU
                                                                   Appropri at i on s    Appropri at i on s
                                                                   for commitments       for payments
                            PROVISIONAL APPROPRIATIONS
                            APPROPRIATIONS FOR I982                  149 000 000           125 000 000
                            EUROPEAN REGIONAL
                            DEVELOPMENT FUND * SPECIFIC
                            COMMUNITY MEASURES
         Artide 510         European Regional
                            Development Fund - specific
                            Community measures
                            APPROPRIATIONS REMAINING
                            AVAILABLE AND AUTOMATIC
                            CARRYOVERS                                39 369 971            17 776 813
                                                    TOTAL                             –-láLIlLSü™
         TO CHAPTER 50      EUROPEAN REGIONAL
                            DEVELOPMENT FUND
                            - COMMUNITY ACTION IN
                            SUPPORT OF NATIONAL
                            REGIONAL POLICIES
         Article 500        European Regional
                            Development Fond
                            - Community action in
                            support of national
                            regional policies
                            APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1982                  149 000 000          125 000 000
                            APPROPRIATIONS REMAINING
                            AVAILABLE AND AUTOMATIC
                            CARRYOVERS                                39 369 971           17 776 813
                                                    TOTAL            188 369 971          I42 776 813
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         The Financial Controller approved this proposal on 28 October 19°2 in
         accordance with Article 21(4 ) of the Financial Regulation and certified
         that the appropriations are available .
COM ( 8?) 752 final .
 ---pagebreak---                                     GROUNDS
I.     Budget Chapter 50 ( European Regional Development Fund - Community action
       in support of national regional policies ) ( quota section ) at
       30 September 1982
At 30 September 1982 , utilization of appropriations in Chapter 50 for quota-
section operations of the European Regional Development Fund was as follows :
                                                                       million ECU
                                      Commitment                Payment
                                      appropriations            appropriations
 Appropriations for 1982                   1520                   890
 Appropriations remaining ,
 carried over or re " ^ ased                 75                    15 9
 Total available                           1595                   905.9
 Used at 30 September                       584                   469
 Still available                           1011                   436.9
likely utilize ion by the end of the year is as follows :
- commitment expropriations :    requests for assistance at present awaiting
   approval decisions by the Cominissj.0.1 before the end of the year total 25%
   ( 250 million ECU ) lore th?n the appropriation j still available ;
- payment appropriations :    at 30 September , payment appropriations were ¥>°/o
   ( more than 120 million ECU ) higher than at the same point in 1981 .
If this increase over the previous year 's rate is maintained , payments will
reach about 1 070 million ECU by the end of 1982 compared with 791 inillion ECU
in 1981 .    Even if there is an appreciable decline from now on , the total is
still likely to reach or exceed 1 000 million ECU .
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II .  In the light of these estimates of commitments and payments , the
Commission is proposing the following transfers :
1.   Transfer from Chapter 100 ( Provisional appropriations ) to Chapter 50
     Commitment appropriations :   149 000 000 ECU
     Payment appropriations :      125 000 000 ECU
On 5 November 1981 , Parliament adopted amendment No 424 which restored the
appropriations for Chapter 50 in the preliminary draft budget for 1982
( Regional Fund , quota section ) but placed in Chapter 100 the appropriations
added to the Council draft to oblige the Commission to use in accordance with
the ideas it had advanced in its report on the mandate of 30 May 1980.
During the last phase of the budgetary procedure , the amounts entered in this
way in Chapter 100 were reduced to 149 million ECU in commitment appropriations
and 125 million ECU in payment appropriations .
As it indicated in its report on the mandate of 30 May 1980^, the Commission 's
ideas on the Regional Fund ( points 32 to 36 of the report ) were subsequently
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spelt out in detail m its proposals for the amendment of the ERDF Regulation ,
which were sent to the Council at the end of October 1981 .     Parliament gave
its opinion on 22 April 1982 and the Commission took account of this in
amending its proposal3.
Until the Council adopts the amended regulation , the Commission is continuing
to apply the existing provisions while endeavouring to follow as closely as
possible the aims set out in the mandate report .
2.   Transfer from Chapter 51 ( European Regional Development Fund - Specific
     Community measures ) (non-quota ) to Chapter 50
     Commitment appropriations :    39 3°9 971 ECU
     Payment appropriations :       17 77 6 813 ECU
  C0M(8l ) 300 final , 24 June 1981 .
2C0M(8l ) 589 final , 26 October 1981 .
3C0M(82) 572 final , 6 September 1982.
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( a)  Commitment appropriations
Spending on four of the five specific actions decided upon "by the Council in
October 1980 at a total estimated cost of 220 million ECU over five years
began in 1981 and on the fifth in 1982 . However , the current rules require
commitment decisions to be taken in annual tranches as the programmes approved
by the Commission and then implemented by the Member State are carried out .
Implementation is not proceeding as fast as originally expected and commitments
of appropriations available in 1982 had reached only 21 319 339 ECU at
30 September ; this figure is lower than the amount of appropriations remaining
from 198l » Since the situation up to the end of the year is uncertain and in
a desire to avoid losing any appropriations , the Commission is requesting the
transfer to Chapter 50 of the remaining appropriations from 1981 ( 39 369 971 ECU )
in accordance with Article 2(2)(b ) of Regulation Ho 724/75 establishing the
ERDF , as amended by Regulation No 214/79 > which provides that " resources which
cannot be used in time " for non–quota actions shall be used for the quota
section .
(b )  Payment appropriations
Since payment appropriations are dependent on commitment appropriations , at
the time of making this request only 2 223 187 ECU of the 20 million ECU
carried over from I98I had been used since the beginning of the year .    For
the reasons given above concerning commitment appropriations , the Commission
is requesting the transfer to Chapter 50 of the balance of 17 77 6 813 ECU .
In both cases , this double transfer means that , if new commitments or payments
need to be made before the end of the year , they will be charged against the
1982 appropriations , which have not yet been touched .   These amount to
90.5 million ECU in commitment appropriations and 60 million ECU in payment
appropriat ions .
  Regulations Nos 2615/8O to 2619/80 of 7 October 1980, OJ L 271 , 15 October 1980.
^Regulation No 214/79 of 6 February 1979» °J L 35» 9 February 1979-
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3.  Position xn Chapter 50 after transfers based on the situation at
    30 September 1982
                                                                    million ECU
                                          Commitment              Pa^rment
                                         appropriations           appropri at i on s
Entered in 1982 budget                      1520                    890
Carri ed over , remaining or
released at 30 September                      75                     15,90
Transferred from Chapter 100                 149                    125
Transferred from Chapter 51                   39.37                  17,78
Total                                       1783,37              1 048,68
Implementation at 30 September               584                    469
Available after transfers on basis
of implementation at 30 September           1199.37                 579,68
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 ---pagebreak---          APPROPRIATIONS IN CHAPTER 100 - PART B
                    AT 22 OCTOBER 1982
                                       Appropri 3,t i on^Ippropri at i on s
                                             for          for payments
                                       commitment s
1. Total appropriations                  822 406 000        631 098 C00
   Appror-' " tirna being transferred      14 500 000         4 500 000
3. Appropriations transferred            253 949 000        178 256 000
4. Appropriations remaining
   in Chapter 100                        Γ·53 957 000       448 342 000