REPORT on Draft amending budget No 5/2008 of the European Union for the financial year 2008

31.7.2008 - (11571/2008 – C6‑0294/2008 – 2008/2161(BUD))

Section III – Commission
Committee on Budgets
Rapporteur: Kyösti Virrankoski

MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION

on Draft amending budget No 5/2008 of the European Union for the financial year 2008, Section III – Commission

(11571/2008 – C6‑0294/2008 – 2008/2161(BUD))

The European Parliament,

–   having regard to Article 272 of the EC Treaty and Article 177 of the Euratom Treaty,

–   having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities[1], and particularly Articles 37 and 38 thereof,

–   having regard to the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2008, as finally adopted on 13 December 2007[2],

–   having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management[3],

–   having regard to Preliminary draft amending budget No 5/2008 of the European Union for the financial year 2008, which the Commission presented on 18 June 2008 (COM(2008)381),

–   having regard to Draft amending budget No 5/2008, which the Council established on 16 July 2008 (11571/2008 – C6‑0294/2008),

–   having regard to Rule 69 of and Annex IV to its Rules of Procedure,

–   having regard to the report of the Committee on Budgets (A6‑0328/2008),

1.  Approves Draft Amending Budget No 5/2008 unamended;

2.  Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and Commission.

• [1]  OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.
• [2]  OJ L 71, 14.3.2008, p. 1.
• [3]  OJ C 139, 14.6.2006, p. 1.

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

PDAB 5/2008 covers the revision of the forecast of traditional own resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties, agricultural duties and sugar levies), VAT and GNI bases. Also the UK rebate is budgetised, resulting in a complicated calculation according to Decision 2000/597/EC, Euratom of 29 September 2000 on the system of the European Communities' own resources[1] and consequently in a change in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget.

Council has adopted DAB 5/2008 unchanged.

• [1]  OJ L 253, 7.10.2000, p. 42.

PROCEDURE

Title	Draft amending budget No 5/2008 of the European Union for the financial year 2008
References	11571/2008 – C6-0294/2008 – 2008/2161(BUD)
Committee responsible   Date announced in plenary	BUDG0.0.0000
Committee(s) asked for opinion(s)   Date announced in plenary	00.00.0000
Rapporteur(s)   Date appointed	Kyösti Virrankoski 13.12.2006
Previous rapporteur(s)
Date draft amending budget established by the Council	24.7.2008
Date draft amending budget forwarded by the Council	24.7.2008
Discussed in committee	16.7.2008
Date adopted	16.7.2008
Result of final vote	+: –: 0:	35
Members present for the final vote	Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Richard James Ashworth, Reimer Böge, Simon Busuttil, Valdis Dombrovskis, Brigitte Douay, James Elles, Hynek Fajmon, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Ingeborg Gräßle, Louis Grech, Nathalie Griesbeck, Catherine Guy-Quint, Jutta Haug, Ville Itälä, Anne E. Jensen, Sergej Kozlík, Alain Lamassoure, Vladimír Maňka, Jan Mulder, Cătălin-Ioan Nechifor, Gianni Pittella, Margaritis Schinas, Esko Seppänen, László Surján, Gary Titley, Helga Trüpel, Kyösti Virrankoski, Ralf Walter
Substitute(s) present for the final vote	Thijs Berman, Bárbara Dührkop Dührkop, Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar, Paul Rübig, José Albino Silva Peneda
Substitute(s) under Rule 178(2) present for the final vote
Date tabled	31.7.2008
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