Report on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011, all sections, as modified by the Council [17635/2010 - C7-0411/2010- 2010/2290(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Co-rapporteurs: Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska and Helga Trüpel (A7-0369/2010)
(Simple majority) (Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 3)
Olivier Chastel (President-in-Office of the Council) announced that Parliament had approved the Council's position on the 2011 draft budget without amendments and welcomed this result.
The President spoke as follows:
'This is the first time we have applied the procedure set down in the Treaty of Lisbon. The European Parliament has adopted the Council's position of 10 December 2010 on the draft general budget which was presented by the Commission on 26 November 2010. The budgetary procedure was completed in accordance with Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. In accordance with this article and point 4(a) thereof, I declare that the budget for the financial year 2011 has been definitively adopted.'
The President called on Alain Lamassoure (Chair of the BUDG Committee), the co-rapporteurs Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska and Helga Trüpel, Olivier Chastel (President-in-Office of the Council) and Janusz Lewandowski (Member of the Commission) to join him.