Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument [COM(2010)0760 - C7-0398/2010- 2010/2293(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Reimer Böge (A7-0367/2010)

(Qualified majority: three fifths of votes cast)
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 1)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P7_TA(2010)0474)

Draft amendments to the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2011 as modified by the Council (all sections).

Under the provisions of the Treaties, draft amendments must receive the votes of a majority of the Members of the European Parliament in order to be adopted.

(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 2)

The five draft amendments were rejected.

The following had spoken:

Martin Schulz, before the vote on Amendment 13, on Amendment 13.

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)

MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION

Adopted (P7_TA(2010)0475)

The following had spoken:

Before the vote

Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska (rapporteur).

After the vote

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.

The President signed the budget.