9.4. 2016 budgetary procedure: joint text (Rule 150) (vote)

Verbatim reports

Report on the joint text on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 approved by the Conciliation Committee under the budgetary procedure [14195/2015 - C8-0353/2015 - 2015/2132(BUD)] - European Parliament delegation to the Budgetary Conciliation Committee. Rapporteurs: José Manuel Fernandes and Gérard Deprez (A8-0333/2015)

(Qualified majority needed to reject the joint text)
(Voting record: 'Results of votes', Item 4)

DRAFT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

Adopted by single vote (P8_TA(2015)0407)

The following had spoken:

After the vote, Pierre Gramegna (President-in-Office of the Council), stressing the excellent cooperation between the institutions in the 2016 budgetary procedure.

Before signing the budget for the 2016 financial year, the President made the following statement:

'The joint text adopted by the Conciliation Committee on 14 November 2015 has been approved by both Parliament and the Council. The budgetary procedure has been implemented in accordance with Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The budgetary procedure for the 2016 financial year may thus be considered complete. I declare the EU's budget for the 2016 financial year has been definitively adopted.'