Activites

• #2407
• 2002/02/12 Council Meeting
• 2000/10/07 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2000/597
  • OJ L 253 07.10.2000, p. 0042
• #2290
• 2000/09/29 Council Meeting
• 2000/09/29 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2000/09/29 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2000/09/21 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0393/2000 summary

    This was a procedure without debate. The Parliament approved the outcome of the conciliation on the joint guideline.�

• 2000/09/04 Committee report tabled for plenary, reconsultation
  • A5-0224/2000
• 2000/09/04 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• #2258
• 2000/05/08 Council Meeting
• 2000/05/08 Formal reconsultation of Parliament
• 2000/04/17 Amended legislative proposal for reconsultation published
  • 07439/2000 summary

    On the 17 April 2000, the Council adopted a common position decision concerning the draft decision on the Communities own resources which it transmitted to the European Parliament for its opinion. The main elements of the common position deal with the following issues: - the reduction of the maximum rate of call of the VAT resources from 1% to 0,75% in 2002 and 2003 and to 0,5% from 2004 onwards with a view to continuing the process of making greater allowance for each Member State's ability to contribute to the EU budget; - increase the percentage of the so-called "traditional own resources" from 10% to 25% of amounts collected with effect from 2001; - change in financing of the UK correction of the budgetary imbalances in favour of the UK amended to allow Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden to set a reduction in their financing share to 25% of their normal contribution; - general review of the operation of the own resources systems, including the effects of enlargement to be submitted on 01.01.2006 at the latest. It should be noted that in the letter which accompanies the new draft decision, the Council calls on the European Parliament to relinquish the dialogue to the extent that this would have little chance of succeeding and which would risk in delaying the time-table for the ratification of this decision for the Member States (the decision must be taken by 01.01.2002).�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}],
• 1999/11/17 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0102/1999 summary

    In adopting the report drafted by Ms. Jutta HAUG (PES, D) with 334 votes for, 154 against and 60 abstentions, the European Parliament called for a dynamic reform of the system of own resources. This reform will need to ensure that the Community gets greater financial autonomy and new forms of resources without increasing the overall burden of taxes and charges on the European taxpayer and with due regard for the economic performance of the Member States. The Parliament considers that the system of own resources has to be based on criteria that correspond to each Member State's economic performance for which GNP is the relevant indicator; in future, the use of compensatory mechanisms on the revenue side should be avoided as a matter of principle and imbalances must be corrected by a reform of the expenditure structure. It is of the opinion that the system of own resources ought in future no longer include derogations and that existing correction mechanisms should therefore be gradually dismantled. As far as VAT is concerned, the Parliament considers that the maximum rate of call of the VAT resources should be fixed at 0.75% for 2001 and 2002 (and not for 2002 and 2003, as proposed by the Commission); at 0.50% in 2003 and 2004 (and not from 2004), and at 0.25% in 2005 and 2006. The Parliament feels that the total amount of own resources assigned to the Union to cover appropriations for payments may not exceed 1.27% of the GNP of the European Union and that the appropriations for commitments entered in the general budget of the Union must follow an orderly progression resulting in a total amount, which does not exceed 1.335% of the GNP of the Union. Before 01.01.2005, the Commission is to submit a proposal for a decsion on the system of own resources which will replace this Decision by 01.01.2007. This proposal shall include provisions relating to the replacement of the VAT resource by new autonomous own resources and the gradual phasing-out of the corrective mechanism established in favour of the United Kingdom.�

• 1999/11/16 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1999/11/08 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0052/1999
• 1999/09/13 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1999/07/08 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1999)0333 summary

    PURPOSE: Commission proposal for a new Own Resources Decision to come into force in 2002. CONTENT: The proposed Decision was mandated by and implements the conclusions of the Berlin Special European Council of 24/25 March 1999. It does not seek to change the structure of own resources since no new own resources are introduced and existing ones (traditional own resources VAT and GNP) will remain. However, as a result of the reforms, the importance of each resource in the financing of the EU budget is expected to change. The proposed Decision introduces reforms in the following areas : - in the financing side of the budget; and - in the rules determining the UK rebate and its financing. The reforms on the financing side concern : - the increase in the percentage of traditional own resources withheld by Member States to cover collection and related costs from 10% to 25%, effective from the beginning of 2001; - the reduction of the VAT maximum rate from 1% currently to 0.75% in 2002 and 2003 and to 0.50% from 2004 onwards. As a result of these reforms, the share of traditional own resources and of the VAT resource in the financing of the budget are expected to decline and, correspondingly, the share of the GNP resource, which approximates at best the capacity to pay off the Member States, to increase in importance. The Berlin Council reaffirmed that the UK rebate will remain. However, two sets of reforms were initiatied modifying it in an important way : 1) windfall gains arising from the reform of the traditional own resources system will be sterilised, as will immediate benefits arising from enlargement so that for the latter, in the words of the Berlin conclusions, 'expenditure which is unabated now remains unabated' after enlargement; 2) it was agreed in Berlin to modify the financing rules so that the share of Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden is reduced to 25% of its value in the absence of this provision. The replacement of the existing Decision by a new Own Resources Decision will occasion the use of the new European System of National Accounts (SEC95) in the budgetary area, as agreed in the adoption of the relevant Regulation. It was also specified that the switch to a more accurate system of calculation of the GNP of the Member States whould not lead, per se, to an increase in the financial resources put at the disposal of the EU. To achieve this last goal, the Commission has included in the draft Decision a methodology to adapt in due time the current own resources ceiling of 1.27% of EU GNP. Before it becomes EU law, the new Own Resources Decision must be first adopted by the Council and subsequently ratified by the legislatures of all the Member States.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/budget/', 'title': 'Budget'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1999)0333
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0052/1999
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0102/1999
• Amended legislative proposal for reconsultation published: 07439/2000
• Committee report tabled for plenary, reconsultation: A5-0224/2000
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0393/2000
• : Decision 2000/597
• : OJ L 253 07.10.2000, p. 0042

History

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