14. Budgets 2014 and 2015 (debate)

Verbatim reports

New general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015

Report on the Council position on the new draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2015 [16739/2014 - C8-0287/2014 - 2014/2224(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteurs: Eider Gardiazabal Rubial and Monika Hohlmeier (A8-0067/2014)

Draft amending budget No 3/2014: Revenue from fines, interest payments, reimbursements and repayments – Payment appropriations – Establishment plans of the Commission, the Committee of the Regions and the European Data Protection Supervisor

Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 3/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III – Commission [16740/2014 - C8-0289/2014 - 2014/2036(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A8-0069/2014)

Draft amending budget No 4/2014: Traditional own resources (TOR), VAT and Gross National Income (GNI) bases

Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 4/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III - Commission [16741/2014 - C8-0290/2014 - 2014/2053(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A8-0076/2014)

Draft amending budget No 5/2014: Floods in Italy (Sardinia) in 2013 - Earthquakes in Greece - Ice in Slovenia - Ice followed by floods in Croatia in 2014

Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 5/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III - Commission [16742/2014 - C8-0291/2014 - 2014/2073(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A8-0078/2014)

Draft amending budget No 6/2014: Revision of the forecast of traditional own resources, VAT and GNI contributions

Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 6/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III – Commission [16743/2014 - C8-0288/2014 - 2014/2162(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A8-0074/2014)

Draft amending budget No 7/2014: Floods in Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria

Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 7/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III - Commission [16744/2014 - C8-0292/2014 - 2014/2163(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A8-0072/2014)

Draft amending budget No 8/2014: Surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2013

Report on the Council position on Draft amending budget No 8/2014 of the European Union for the financial year 2014, Section III – Commission [16745/2014 - C8-0293/2014 - 2014/2225(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A8-0079/2014)

Mobilisation of the Contingency Margin in 2014

Report on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on mobilisation of the Contingency Margin, in accordance with point 14 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 2 December 2013 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management [COM(2014)0328 - C8-0020/2014 - 2014/2037(BUD)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteur: Gérard Deprez (A8-0068/2014)

Union own resources – adjustment of Member States' national contributions

Report on the proposal for a Council regulation amending Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1150/2000 implementing Decision 2007/436/EC, Euratom on the system of the European Communities' own resources [COM(2014)0704 - C8-0250/2014 - 2014/0332(NLE)] - Committee on Budgets. Rapporteurs: Gérard Deprez and Janusz Lewandowski (A8-0066/2014)

Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Monika Hohlmeier, Gérard Deprez and Janusz Lewandowski presented their reports.

The following spoke: Benedetto Della Vedova (President-in-Office of the Council) and Kristalina Georgieva (Vice-President of the Commission).

The following spoke: Jan Olbrycht (rapporteur for the opinion of the REGI Committee), José Manuel Fernandes, on behalf of the PPE Group, Jens Geier, on behalf of the S&D Group, Bernd Kölmel, on behalf of the ECR Group, Jean Arthuis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Liadh Ní Riada, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Giulia Moi, Indrek Tarand, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marco Zanni, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Paul Rübig, Vladimír Maňka, Richard Ashworth, Nils Torvalds, Pablo Echenique, who also replied to a blue-card question by Daniele Viotti, Davor Škrlec, Jonathan Arnott, Eleftherios Synadinos, Siegfried Mureșan, Derek Vaughan, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, Younous Omarjee, Marco Valli, Georgios Kyrtsos, Victor Negrescu, Nikolay Barekov and Martina Michels.

IN THE CHAIR: Rainer WIELAND
Vice-President

The following spoke: Petr Mach, Jean-Paul Denanot, Stanisław Ożóg, Giulia Moi, Salvatore Cicu, Daniele Viotti, Christian Ehler, Paul Tang, Tomáš Zdechovský, Alain Lamassoure, Petri Sarvamaa, Lara Comi, Andrej Plenković, Wim van de Camp and Ivan Štefanec.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Patricija Šulin, Zigmantas Balčytis, José Inácio Faria, Igor Šoltes and Marian-Jean Marinescu.

The following spoke: Kristalina Georgieva, Benedetto Della Vedova, Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Monika Hohlmeier, Gérard Deprez and Janusz Lewandowski.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.15, minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.16, minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.4, minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.5, minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.7, minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.8, minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.10, minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.11, minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.3 and minutes of 17.12.2014, item 10.12.