1 Amendments of Jan MULDER related to 2012/2000(BUD)
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that the level of payments, which, being the mere result of past commitments, should be determined on the basis of technical criteria such as implementation figures, absorption forecasts or the level of outstanding commitments (RALs), has become the main political issue within the Council in the past few budgetary procedures; points to the growing level of RALs at the end of 2011, amounting to € 207 billion, which represents almost 7 % more than the level at the end of 2010; insists that Council refrain from deciding the level of payments without taking account of actual needs view of the upcoming interinstitutional meeting on the difference between commitment and payment appropriations will establish a dialogue with the Commission in order to fully clarify how the RAL is composed in terms of the year in which commitments were adopted in the budget, member state(s) in which the commitments will be executed, how the n+x rule affects the particular commitment and the budgetary chapter in which the commitment is located. The current situation should be compared to the one in the previous MFF and definitive solutions should be proposed; insists that Council refrain from deciding the level of payments without taking account of actual needs; notes further that accruing RAL actually undermine a transparent EU budget in which it is clearly visible how commitments and payments are related in a specific budgetary year;