12. Draft amending budget No 6/2012 - Revenue from own resources and other resources - Increase in payment appropriations in headings 1a, 1b, 2, 3a and 4 of the Multiannual Financial Framework - Reduction in the level of commitment appropriations entered in the budget - New general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013 - all sections (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 6/2012 of the European Union for the financial year 2012, Section III - Commission [17295/2012 - C7-0401/2012- 2012/2281(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Francesca Balzani (A7-0409/2012)

Report on the Council position on the new draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013 - all sections [17195/2012 - C7-0399/2012- 2012/2307(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Co-rapporteurs: Giovanni La Via and Derek Vaughan (A7-0410/2012)

Francesca Balzani, Giovanni La Via and Derek Vaughan introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Loucas Louca (President-in-Office of the Council) and Janusz Lewandowski (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Alain Lamassoure, on behalf of the PPE Group, Eider Gardiazábal Rubial, on behalf of the S&D Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Paul Rübig, Jan Mulder, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Helga Trüpel, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Richard Ashworth, on behalf of the ECR Group, Jürgen Klute, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Marta Andreasen, on behalf of the EFD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by George Lyon, Lucas Hartong, Non-attached Member, László Surján, Göran Färm, Alexander Alvaro, François Alfonsi, Hynek Fajmon, Alda Sousa, Monika Hohlmeier and Jutta Haug.

IN THE CHAIR: László SURJÁN
Vice-President

The following spoke: George Lyon, Isabelle Durant, Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska, Edit Herczog, Anne E. Jensen, Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar, Catherine Trautmann, Ivars Godmanis, Ingeborg Gräßle, Georgios Stavrakakis, Angelika Werthmann and Barbara Matera.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Anna Záborská, Janusz Władysław Zemke, João Ferreira, Frédéric Daerden and Jan Kozłowski.

The following spoke: Janusz Lewandowski, Loucas Louca, Francesca Balzani, Giovanni La Via and Derek Vaughan.

The Chair closed the debate and highlighted the main challenges which it threw up.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 12.12.2012, item 7.1 and minutes of 12.12.2012, item 7.3.