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The purpose of Draft Amending Budget No 2/2023 (DAB 2/2023) to the EU's 2023 general budget is to enter the €2.5 billion surplus from implementation of the 2022 budget as revenue in the 2023 budget. The surplus is the result of higher than expected revenues from customs duties collected in the last months of 2022 and under-spending on the expenditure side. Inclusion of the surplus will lead to a corresponding reduction in Member States' gross national income (GNI) contributions to the 2023 budget ...

Statistical own resources could be devised to create more independence from the Gross National Income (GNI) contribution and address policy issues at the same time. Statistical own resources should practically be based on information already collected by Eurostat. Therefore, Member States do not have to provide new data. The base and call-rate of a policy-linked statistical contribution could be designed and fine-tuned to entail deliberate distributive implications among Member States. This could ...

Siden de finansielle overslag for 2007-2013 trådte i kraft for et årti siden, har EU's budget undergået betydelige ændringer. I 2009 trådte traktaten om Den Europæiske Unions funktionsmåde (TEUF) i kraft. Dette indebar en væsentlig ændring af Den Europæiske Unions institutioners beføjelser. Den globale finansielle krises udbrud i 2008, som blev efterfulgt af den specifikke krise for euroområdet, medførte krav om økonomiske stramninger i EU's medlemsstater og lagde pres på EU's budget. Denne briefing ...

The collective pledge made by the European Union and its Member States in 2005 to provide Official Development Assistance (ODA) equivalent to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) by 2015 has not been upheld. Although the European Council has reiterated this commitment on an annual basis since 2010, collective European Union ODA (European Union institutions and Member States) only reached an ODA/GNI ratio of 0.42 per cent by the end of 2014.

Although enjoying the highest possible standard of health is a human right, millions of people suffer from preventable and curable diseases. The Millennium Development Goals strongly emphasised health, leading to increased investment in the health sector. Major progress has been made in reducing child and maternal mortality, and in combatting communicable diseases, but several regions will not meet the health targets. The Ebola outbreak has drawn attention to the need for international cooperation ...

This report reviews the various ways in which the Member States of the European Union handle the collection of revenues for the EU budget, as well as the classification and treatment of EU expenditures. The study finds a substantial diversity in these practices among the Member States and calls for a full harmonisation of the accounting procedures. It concludes with some options for transforming the Gross National Income resource into a ‘genuine’ resource for the EU and assesses the potential of ...

The "own resources system" ensures the financing of EU's policies. While the European Council of February 2013 agreed only marginal changes to its current configuration, a newly established high-level group chaired by Mario Monti may possibly pave the way to deeper reforms.