Activites

• #1903
• 1996/02/26 Council Meeting
  • 1903 summary

    The Council took note of information from the Netherlands delegation, as the only Member State not yet to have ratified the Decision on own resources, on progress with the procedure under way in the Netherlands parliament: the lower house had already given its agreement in December 1995 and the upper house should be completing ratification very shortly.�

• 1994/11/12 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 1994/728
  • OJ L 293 12.11.1994, p. 0009-0013
• #1796
• 1994/10/31 Council Meeting
• 1994/10/31 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1994/10/31 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• #1781
• 1994/07/27 Council Meeting
  • 1781
• 1994/03/23 Modified legislative proposal published
  • 05659/1994
• 1994/03/07 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1994)0071 summary

    The Commission's amended proposal takes account of the European Parliament's amendments seeking to: - delete the reference to the European Council on 11 and 12 December 1992 in a number of recitals; - clarify, in the tenth recital, that the formula for calculating the correction of budgetary imbalances will be confirmed in the new decision, rather than stating that the European Council has confirmed the formula; - amend the sixteenth recital by deleting the reference to the Copenhagen European Council and adding, "pending improvements to the system of own resources"; - clarify that the Commission is being called on to submit proposals for reforming the Community's finances; - clarify that the total sum of own resources available will be determined on the basis of a percentage of GDP until such time as the competent bodies adopt a different system; - clarify that the overall reference amount of commitment appropriations entered in the general budget of the Communities during the period from 1995 to 1999 should not exceed 1.335% of the Community's total GDP in 1999, subject to a readjustment set by common accord by the bodies of the budgetary authority; - point out that a correction of budgetary imbalances is still being granted to the United Kingdom; - clarify that the Commission will present a study on the possibility of reforming the Community's finances before the report scheduled for 1999.�

• 1994/02/09 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T3-0072/1994 summary

    The European Parliament followed the recommendation of its rapporteur, Mr Langes, and approved the proposal for a Council decision, subject to a number of amendments. In particular, Parliament called on the Commission to present proposals for reforming the Union's finances on the basis of a real system of own resources before the 1996 intergovernmental conference opened, and, at the same time, for possibly creating a fifth resource.�

• 1994/02/08 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament summary

• 1994/02/07 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A3-0060/1994
• 1993/11/15 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1993/09/14 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1993)0438 summary

    The draft decision sought to implement the conclusions of the Edinburgh European Council on Community financing for the period 1993 to 1999. It was concerned essentially with the level of resources available for the period 1995-1999 and the structure of the system of Community finances: - the annual ceiling on own resources for payment appropriations, held at 1.20% of Community GDP up to 1994, would be raised each year from 1995 to 1.27% of Community GDP in 1999; - the proposed ceiling for the uniform rate of the VAT base would be lowered from 1.4% to 1% in equal stages over the period 1995-1999; - the VAT base would be limited to 50% of GDP from 1995, for countries whose GDP was less than 90% of the Community average; it would be reduced from 55% to 50% for the other Member States in equal stages between 1995 and 1999; - the annex set out the results of the study requested by the Council of the desirability or otherwise of introducing a fixed uniform rate of VAT. The draft decision also sought to improve and complete the system currently in force by means of provisions on: the raising of resources needed to cover reserves; the degressive refunding of own resources raised from VAT or based on GDP; the role of the Commission in improving national procedures for recording, calculating, recovering and monitoring VAT. �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1993)0438
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A3-0060/1994
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T3-0072/1994
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1994)0071
• Modified legislative proposal published: 05659/1994
• Debate in Council: 1781
• : Decision 1994/728
• : OJ L 293 12.11.1994, p. 0009-0013
• Debate in Council: 1903

History

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