At its meeting of 11 January 2005, the Committee on Budgets had considered proposal for transfer of appropriations DEC01/2005 by the Commission (C6-0005/2005 – SEC(2005)0012 final).
It had authorised the transfer pursuant to Articles 24(3) and 26(2) of the Financial Regulation and Article 23(c) of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999.
On 18 January 2005, the Council would officially confirm its positive opinion as stated during the Trialogue on 12 January 2005. The transfer could then be executed as follows:
FROM
Chapter 31 02 – Reserves for financial interventions
Commitments - 100 000 000
Article 31 02 42 – Emergency aid reserve
Payments - 100 000 000
TO
Chapter 23 02 – Humanitarian aid
Commitments 100 000 000
Article 23 02 01 – Aid, including emergency food aid, to help the populations of the developing countries and other third countries hit by disasters or serious crises