Activites

• 2004/04/30 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Budget 2004/377
  • OJ L 148 30.04.2004, p. 0001-0180
• 2004/04/21 Draft budget approved by Council
• 2004/04/21 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2004/04/19 Additional information
• 2004/04/05 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
  • A5-0256/2004
• 2004/04/01 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0262/2004
• 2004/03/26 Council draft budget published
  • 07682/2004 summary

    On 26 March 2004 the Council established draft amending budget No 3 for the financial year 2004, by accepting most of the Commission's amendments except for: - the Council taking into account certain transfers presented by the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, has decided to put in the reserve 20 % of the amounts requested by these institutions for salaries; - as regards budgetary remarks, the Council has introduced some changes regarding the European Agency for Evaluation of Medicinal Products (lines 02 04 02 01, 02 04 02 02 and 02 04 02 03) taking into account article 18 (1) (f) of the Financial Regulation. Under draft amending budget No 3 for the financial year 2004, total expenditure stands at EUR 111.385.323.897 in commitment appropriations and EUR 99.809.455.419 in payment appropriations.�

• 2004/03/16 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0202/2004
• 2004/03/09 Commission preliminary draft budget published
  • SEC(2004)0272 summary

    PURPOSE: presentation of a third draft amending budget to the 2004 budget to give substance to the decisions taken at the conciliation meeting of 24 November 2003 with respect to, among other things, the publication of the acquis in the languages of the new Member States. CONTENT: In the first place, this draft amending budget brings into line the appropriations awarded to the institutions for the publication of the acquis in the languages of the new Member States. It also adjusts the appropriations required for remunerations, to match them to the establishment plans, which were altered significantly from past years in order to take into account the administrative requirements connected with enlargement. 1) publication of the acquis: at the conciliation meeting, it was agreed that the Commission and the Council could present a preliminary draft amending budget to cover any additional needs for the publication of the acquis. It was thought that this would be necessary because the number of pages was higher than initially forecast and the programming of the arrival of the translations at OPOCE (Official Publications Office of the Union) had changed. However, recent information from OPOCE suggests that the Commission will no longer need to provide additional appropriations for the acquis in 2004 as the cost per page published has been reduced. Only the Council's additional needs are therefore included in this preliminary draft budget (EUR 10.5 million). 2) Remunerations: the adjustment concerning remunerations is to reconcile the decisions taken at the end of 2003 on the establishment plan in connection with enlargement and the salary review. With the present budgets as adopted by the budgetary authority at the end of 2003, the institutions would be forced to leave vacant some of the posts allocated for enlargement in order to cover their obligations under the Staff Regulations. In order to deal with this problem which was already known at the time of the conciliation on 24 November, the two arms of the budgetary authority agreed to leave an adequate margin in heading 5 so that a correction could be made once the exact amount had been calculated. Apart from remunerations, this draft amending budget also concerns pensions. All the institutions are affected by these adjustments. Parliament, however, has decided to make the adjustment by means of a transfer within its present budget and is not therefore involved in this preliminary draft amending budget. The case of the European Data-Protection Supervisor is also special because of the recent appointment of the members of this institution. It too is not involved in this preliminary draft amending budget. The Commission also proposes other changes to the 2004 budget in connection with the remarks to certain budget lines which proved necessary after the budget was adopted and whose overall budgetary effect is neutral. Conclusion: the overall size of this draft amending budget thus amounts to EUR 83.797 million.�

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

Documents

• Commission preliminary draft budget published: SEC(2004)0272
• Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A5-0202/2004
• Council draft budget published: 07682/2004
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0262/2004
• Budgetary report tabled for plenary, 2nd reading: A5-0256/2004
• : Budget 2004/377
• : OJ L 148 30.04.2004, p. 0001-0180

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)