Activites

• 2008/12/20 Final act published in Official Journal
• 2008/12/18 Results of vote in Parliament
  • Results of vote in Parliament
  • T6-0617/2008 summary

    The European Parliament adopted, by 516 votes to 17 with 8 abstentions, a resolution approving the draft amendment of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 (IIA) between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management approving the amendment of the Interinstitutional Agreement as agreed upon at the conciliation meeting of 21 November 2008 (refer to the summary of the amended draft budget BUD/2008/2026).The report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by Jo LEINEN (PES, DE) on behalf of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.The amendment aims to include a sentence in the IIA stipulating that the amount of the Emergency Aid Reserve shall be exceptionally increased to EUR 479.218 million for the year 2008 in current prices. This amount will cover the needs of the new Food Facility for rapid response to soaring prices in developing countries.

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• 2008/12/16 Council Meeting
• 2008/12/16 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A6-0509/2008
• 2008/12/15 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2008/12/02 Non-legislative basic document published
  • COM(2008)0834 summary

    PURPOSE: to amend Interinstitutional Agreement of 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management in order to increase the amount provided under in this Agreement as regards the Emergency Aid Reserve.PROPOSED ACT: Interinstitutional Agreement.CONTENT: the recent developments in food and commodity prices have raised concerns especially as regards their impact for developing countries. The Commission proposed to create a new facility for rapid response to soaring food prices in developing countries (COD/2008/0149).Having examined the scope for reallocating expenditure within Heading 4 as well as the possible use of all other available instruments (the Instrument for Stability, the Flexibility instrument), the Emergency Aid Reserve was identified as one of the suitable instruments for financing the facility.Since the remaining amount of the Emergency Aid Reserve for the year 2008 is insufficient to cover the needs of the food facility, an increase is necessary in order to enable the Reserve to contribute to the food facility financing.The annual amount of the Emergency Aid Reserve is fixed at EUR 221 million in constant prices for the duration of the financial framework. The Council and the European Parliament agreed that it shall be increased to EUR 479.218 million (in current prices), uniquely and exceptionally for the year 2008.Therefore, the Interinstitutional Agreement setting the annual amount of the Emergency Aid Reserve shall be amended accordingly.

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

Documents

• Non-legislative basic document published: COM(2008)0834
• Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A6-0509/2008
• Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T6-0617/2008

History

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