REPORT on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2021 of the European Union for the financial year 2021 - Brexit Adjustment Reserve
3.9.2021 - (10945/2021 – C9‑0000/2021 – 2021/0022(BUD))
Committee on Budgets
Rapporteur: Pierre Larrouturou
MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION
on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2021 of the European Union for the financial year 2021, Section III – Commission
(10945/2021 – C9‑0000 – 2021/0022(BUD))
The European Parliament,
– having regard to Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
– having regard to Article 106a of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community,
– having regard to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012[1], and in particular Article 44 thereof,
– having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2021, as definitively adopted on 18 December 2020[2],
– having regard to Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 of 17 December 2020 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027[3] (MFF Regulation),
– having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources[4],
– having regard to Council Decision 2020/2053/EU, Euratom of 14 December 2020 on the system of own resources of the European Union[5],
– having regard to the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Brexit Adjustment Reserve of 25 December 2020[6] (BAR Regulation),
– having regard to Draft amending budget No 1/2021, which the Commission adopted on 22 January 2021 (COM(2021)0030),
– having regard to the position on Draft amending budget No 1/2021 which the Council adopted on 19 July 2021 and forwarded to Parliament on ... (00000/2021 – C9‑0000),
– having regard to Rule 94 and 96 of its Rules of Procedure,
– having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A9-0263/2021),
A. whereas the Commission presented on 25 December 2020 a proposal for a regulation establishing the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (the Reserve) within the thematic special instruments outside of the Union budget ceilings of the MFF ‘to counter unforeseen and adverse consequences in Member States and sectors that are worst affected’ by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union, mitigating thus its impact on the economic, social and territorial cohesion;
B. whereas the maximum resources for the implementation of the Reserve amount to EUR 5 000 000 000 in 2018 prices (EUR 5 370 994 000 in current prices);
C. whereas the purpose of Draft amending budget N 1/2021 is to enter in the Union annual budget for 2021 EUR 4 244 832 000 in current prices (EUR 4 000 000 000 in 2018 prices), both in commitment and in payment appropriations, to meet the pre-financing needs resulting from the implementation of the Reserve in 2021;
D. whereas, following the adoption of the BAR Regulation, the appropriations will be transferred to the budget article ‘16 02 03’; whereas the financial contribution from the Reserve to a Member State will then be implemented within the framework of shared management in accordance with Article 63 of the Financial Regulation;
1. Takes note of Draft amending budget No 1/2021 as submitted by the Commission, which aims at making available EUR 4 244 832 000 in both commitment and payment appropriations to cover the pre-financing needs of the Brexit Adjustment Reserve;
2. Underlines that the Reserve is one of the thematic special instruments within the MFF Regulation 2021-2027, and its related appropriations are therefore entered into the budget over and above the expenditure ceilings of the MFF;
3. Approves the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2021;
4. Instructs its President to declare that Amending budget No 3/2021 has been definitively adopted and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;
5. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.
INFORMATION ON ADOPTION IN COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE
Date adopted |
31.8.2021 |
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Result of final vote |
+: –: 0: |
33 0 4 |
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Members present for the final vote |
Rasmus Andresen, Robert Biedroń, Anna Bonfrisco, Olivier Chastel, Lefteris Christoforou, David Cormand, Paolo De Castro, José Manuel Fernandes, Alexandra Geese, Vlad Gheorghe, Valentino Grant, Elisabetta Gualmini, Francisco Guerreiro, Valérie Hayer, Eero Heinäluoma, Niclas Herbst, Monika Hohlmeier, Mislav Kolakušić, Moritz Körner, Joachim Kuhs, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, Hélène Laporte, Pierre Larrouturou, Janusz Lewandowski, Margarida Marques, Siegfried Mureşan, Victor Negrescu, Andrey Novakov, Jan Olbrycht, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Karlo Ressler, Bogdan Rzońca, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Nils Torvalds, Nils Ušakovs, Rainer Wieland, Angelika Winzig |
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FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL IN COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE
33 |
+ |
ECR |
Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, Bogdan Rzońca |
ID |
Hélène Laporte |
PPE |
Lefteris Christoforou, José Manuel Fernandes, Niclas Herbst, Monika Hohlmeier, Janusz Lewandowski, Siegfried Mureşan, Andrey Novakov, Jan Olbrycht, Karlo Ressler, Rainer Wieland, Angelika Winzig |
Renew |
Olivier Chastel, Vlad Gheorghe, Valérie Hayer, Moritz Körner, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Nils Torvalds |
S&D |
Robert Biedroń, Paolo De Castro, Elisabetta Gualmini, Eero Heinäluoma, Pierre Larrouturou, Margarida Marques, Victor Negrescu, Nils Ušakovs |
The Left |
Dimitrios Papadimoulis |
Verts/ALE |
Rasmus Andresen, David Cormand, Alexandra Geese, Francisco Guerreiro |
0 |
- |
4 |
0 |
ID |
Anna Bonfrisco, Valentino Grant, Joachim Kuhs |
NI |
Mislav Kolakušić |
Key to symbols:
+ : in favour
- : against
0 : abstention