{"change_dates":[],"dossier":{"amendments":[{"authors":"Sidonia El\u015cbieta J\u0119drzejewska","changes":{},"committee":["BUDG"],"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:00","id":"PE445.870-1","location":[["Motion for a resolution","Paragraph 1 - point iii"]],"meps":[96782],"meta":{"created":"2019-07-03T05:13:44"},"new":["iii. fully comply with Article 311 TFEU","which requires the Union to provide itself","with the means necessary to attain its","objectives and carry out its policies, taking","into account the new areas of action given","by the Lisbon Treaty, including in the","fields of external action, sport, space,","climate change, energy, tourism and civil","protection;"],"old":["iii. fully comply with Article 311 TFEU","which requires the Union to provide itself","with the means necessary to attain its","objectives and carry out its policies, taking","into account the new priorities given by the","Lisbon Treaty, including in the fields of","external action, sport, space, climate","change, energy, tourism and civil","protection;"],"orig_lang":"en","peid":"PE445.870v01-00","reference":"2010/0048(APP)","seq":"1","src":"http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-445.870+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN"},{"authors":"Eider Gardiaz\u00e1bal Rubial, G\u00f6ran F\u00e4rm","changes":{},"committee":["BUDG"],"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:00","id":"PE445.870-2","location":[["Motion for a resolution","Paragraph 1 - point vi"]],"meps":[96991,4265],"meta":{"created":"2019-07-03T05:13:44"},"new":["vi. acknowledge that the current economic","climate might lead the budgetary authority","to make some efforts towards","reprioritisation within the budget through","the establishment of positive and negative","priorities while bearing in mind however","the European added value of the EU budget","since it is an expression of solidarity and","efficiency by pooling together financial","resources otherwise dispersed at national,","regional and local level; emphasise as","well that an overwhelming part of the EU","budget expenditures support long-term","investments necessary to stimulate EU","economic growth;"],"old":["vi. given the current economic climate,","make efforts to consider reprioritisation","within the budget through the","establishment of positive and negative","priorities bearing in mind however the","European added value of the EU budget;"],"orig_lang":"en","peid":"PE445.870v01-00","reference":"2010/0048(APP)","seq":"2","src":"http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-445.870+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN"},{"authors":" Derek Vaughan","changes":{},"committee":["BUDG"],"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:00","id":"PE445.870-3","location":[[" Motion for a resolution","Paragraph 1 - point vi"]],"meps":[96918],"meta":{"created":"2019-07-03T05:13:44"},"new":["vi. given the current economic climate,","make efforts to consider reprioritisation","within the budget in order to ensure the","adequate funding of priorities, bearing in","mind however the European added value of","the EU budget;"],"old":["vi. given the current economic climate,","make efforts to consider reprioritisation","within the budget through the","establishment of positive and negative","priorities bearing in mind however the","European added value of the EU budget;"],"orig_lang":"en","peid":"PE445.870v01-00","reference":"2010/0048(APP)","seq":"3","src":"http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-445.870+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN"},{"authors":" Eider Gardiaz\u00e1bal Rubial, Derek Vaughan, G\u00f6ran F\u00e4rm","changes":{},"committee":["BUDG"],"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:00","id":"PE445.870-4","location":[[" Motion for a resolution","Paragraph 1 - point vii"]],"meps":[96991,96918,4265],"meta":{"created":"2019-07-03T05:13:44"},"new":["vii. recognise that new needs cannot be met","through redeployment or reprioritisation","and that a revision of the MFF and the","flexibility mechanisms included in the IIA","is necessary, contrary to the Council's","position as set out in its conclusions of 16","March 2010 on the budget guidelines for","2011 and reaffirmed by the Presidency-in-","office in its statements during the 15 June","2010 debate on oral question B7-","0310/2010 O-0074/2010; 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take note of the fact that","Parliament is not prepared to accept any","loss of flexibility nor enter into","negotiations over any proposals that do not","guarantee at least the current degree of","flexibility over revisions to the financial","framework of up to 0,03% of EU GNI","(referred to in Article 8(3) of the proposal","for a MFF Regulation);"],"old":["xiii. recognise the importance of flexibility","to create reserves and margins allowing the","EU to respond to current and future needs,","both within the financial framework,","within and between headings such as was","necessary to find the resources for","Galileo, the Food Facility and the","Economic Recovery Plan for example,","and in negotiations over its establishment","and revision; take note of the fact that","Parliament is not prepared to accept any","loss of flexibility nor enter into","negotiations over any proposals that do not","guarantee at least the current degree of","flexibility over revisions to the financial","framework of up to 0,03% of EU GNI","(referred to in Article 8(3) of the proposal","for a MFF Regulation);"],"orig_lang":"en","peid":"PE445.870v01-00","reference":"2010/0048(APP)","seq":"8","src":"http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-445.870+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN"},{"authors":"Eider Gardiaz\u00e1bal Rubial, Derek Vaughan, G\u00f6ran F\u00e4rm","changes":{},"committee":["BUDG"],"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:00","id":"PE445.870-9","location":[["Motion for a resolution","Paragraph 1 - point xiii"]],"meps":[96991,96918,4265],"meta":{"created":"2019-07-03T05:13:44"},"new":["xiii. recognise the importance of flexibility","to create reserves and margins allowing the","EU to respond to current and future needs,","both within the financial framework,","within and between headings (such as was","necessary to find the resources for Galileo,","the Food Facility and the Economic","Recovery Plan for example), and in","negotiations over its establishment and","revision; 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measure the","risk of a lack of democratic control and","legitimacy over those policies as well as a","breach of the principle of universality of","the EU budget and the negative impact","this trend might imply with regard to the","principle of solidarity;","(See amendment point ix a )"],"orig_lang":"en","peid":"PE445.870v01-00","reference":"2010/0048(APP)","seq":"10","src":"http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-445.870+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN&language=EN"},{"authors":" Eider Gardiaz\u00e1bal Rubial, G\u00f6ran F\u00e4rm","changes":{},"committee":["BUDG"],"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:00","id":"PE445.870-11","location":[[" Motion for a resolution","Paragraph 1 - point xvi"]],"meps":[96991,4265],"meta":{"created":"2019-07-03T05:13:45"},"new":["xvi. given its possible far-reaching","budgetary consequences, give further","thought to the European Financial","Stabilisation Mechanism ahead of the","adoption of the MFF regulation; accept that","both arms of the budgetary authority be","involved in decisions concerning the","impact this mechanism could have on the","EU budget; 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PURPOSE: to propose\n a new multiannual financial framework (2007-2013) revising and codifying the\n current financial framework taking into account the entry into force of the\n Treaty of Lisbon.
PROPOSED ACT:\n Council Regulation.
BACKGROUND:\n the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) stipulates that a\n unanimously adopted Council Regulation shall lay down a multiannual financial\n framework. The financial framework shall determine the amounts of the annual\n ceilings on commitment appropriations by category of expenditure and of the\n annual ceiling on payment appropriations and it shall lay down any other\n provisions required for the annual budgetary procedure to run smoothly.
The practice\n to adopt a multiannual financial framework and provisions on the interinstitutional\n cooperation and budgetary discipline started more than 20 years ago. It has\n immensely improved and simplified the annual budget procedure and cooperation\n between institutions and, as a consequence, increased the budgetary\n discipline.
The current multiannual financial framework for 2007-2013 was\n agreed between institutions in May 2006 and is laid down in the\n Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial\n management (the IIA).\n With the entry into force of the TFEU, the relevant provisions of the current\n IIA need to be codified into a Council Regulation laying down the multiannual\n financial framework (the MFF regulation). This codification represents an\n alignment of the provisions of the current IIA with the requirements of the\n Treaty. However, this alignment has to take into account the change of\n instrument, i.e. a regulation instead of an IIA. For legal reasons, it is,\n however, neither possible nor feasible to transpose all the provisions of the\n current IIA into the MFF regulation. Some of the provisions of the current\n IIA became obsolete with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, many\n shall be incorporated in this MFF regulation, and some in the revised\n Financial Regulation.
A new IIA is\n still necessary for those provisions that do not fit into either of these two\n regulations and incorporate them into the framework of a revised\n IIA (provisions on interinstitutional cooperation, in particular).
Taking into account all the relevant provisions and requirements\n of the Treaty, the current proposal seeks to focus on the financial framework\n in the strictest sense (e.g. annual adjustments of the financial framework,\n revision of the financial framework…). Some of the other provisions\n previously in the IIA have become obsolete (i) provisions related to\n the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure and the\n maximum rate of increase, (ii) the classification of expenditure, (iii) significant\n parts of inter-institutional cooperation are either inappropriate for a\n regulation of this type and should fall within the financial regulation\n (rather than in the MFF regulation) or in the IIA.
The remaining\n provisions – mainly issues relating to pure interinstitutional cooperation –\n are included in a new\n IIA which is the subject of a separate procedure.
For the sake\n of integrity, the draft MFF Regulation and the new IIA are presented together\n and should be negotiated and agreed as one integral package.
IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment\n has been undertaken.
LEGAL BASE:\n Article 312 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) –\n special legislative procedure.
CONTENT: since\n 1988, the multiannual financial framework and related provisions have been\n laid down in interinstitutional agreements. The multiannual financial\n framework for 2007-2013 was established by the Interinstitutional Agreement\n of 17 May 2006 (the IIA).\n With the entry into force of the TFEU, the practice of fixing the financial\n framework by interinstitutional agreement has to be reviewed and the\n multiannual financial framework has to be laid down in the form of a\n regulation. This is the purpose of this proposal which integrates the\n appropriate provisions of the old IIA and takes into account, where required,\n of the amendments that are required by the new Treaty.
As a result, the IIA is to be amended as\n follows:
BUDGETARY\n IMPACT: the proposal has no impact on the EU’s budget. It corresponds to the\n financial framework as revised for the second phase of the European\n Economic Recovery Plan (EERP), adopted by the Council and Parliament on\n 17 December 2009.
\nThe Committee on Budgets adopted the interim report drafted by Reimer BÖGE (EPP, DE) on the proposal for a Council regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2007-2013.
\nThe committee recalls that, according to the European Commission's latest financial programming for 2012-2013, the margin available under heading 1a will be less than EUR 50 million per year and the global margin available under all headings will be limited to EUR 436 million for 2012 and EUR 435 million for 2013.
\nMembers state that the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism has potentially significant budgetary implications.
\nTherefore, in this respect, they request the Council and the Commission to take account of the following recommendations:
\nThe European\n Parliament adopted by 445 votes to 39, with 18 abstentions, a resolution on\n the proposal for a Council regulation laying down the multiannual financial\n framework for the years 2007-2013.
The Parliament\n recalls that, according to the European Commission's latest financial\n programming for 2012-2013, the margin available under heading 1a will be less\n than EUR 50 million per year and the global margin available under all\n headings will be limited to EUR 436 million for 2012 and EUR 435 million for\n 2013.
Members state\n that the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism has potentially\n significant budgetary implications.
Therefore, in\n this respect, they request the Council and the Commission to take account of\n the following recommendations:
The Council decided to forward\n to the European Parliament, for approval, a draft Council Regulation laying\n down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2007-2013. The purpose\n of the text is to adapt the current EU budgetary rules to the provisions of\n the Lisbon Treaty. It also decided to forward to the Parliament the Council’s position on the new draft inter-institutional\n agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on\n cooperation in budgetary matters.
These two new texts seek to\n take into account the wish expressed by the European Parliament to maintain a\n certain degree of flexibility in the management of the multiannual financial\n framework by providing for contingency margin of 0.03% of Gross National\n Income which can be used, as a last resort, to fill spending gaps or needs in\n the EU budget if money cannot be found elsewhere.
The main provisions of this\n draft Regulation may be summarised as follows:
Multiannual financial\n framework: an annex presents the multiannual financial framework for the\n 2007-2013 period, with the details of budget headings year by year. Each of\n these amounts represents an annual ceiling on expenditures to which\n the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission must commit to\n respect in the course of the implementation of the budget for the financial\n year in question. Except in sub-heading 1b of the financial framework,\n for the purposes of sound financial management, they shall ensure as far as\n possible, during the budgetary procedure and at the time of the budget's\n adoption, that sufficient margins are left available beneath the\n ceilings for the various headings.
Revision of the financial\n framework: the financial framework can be revised upon the proposal of the\n Commission, to deal with unforeseen circumstances. Any proposal for a\n revision should examine the scope for reallocation within or between the\n headings and for possible offsetting of any raising of the ceiling for one\n heading by the lowering of the ceiling for another.
Special instruments: the text places\n particular emphasis on the so-called “special instruments” the purpose of\n which is to ensure the flexibility of the financial framework.
The commitment appropriations\n may be entered in the budget outside the ceilings of the relevant headings\n laid down in the financial framework where it is necessary to use the\n resources from:
· \n the\n Emergency Aid Reserve,
· \n the\n Solidarity Fund,
· \n the\n Flexibility Instrument,
· \n the\n European Globalisation Adjustment Fund,
· \n the\n Contingency Margin.
These special instruments are\n necessary to allow the Union to react to specified unforeseen circumstances\n or to allow the financing of clearly identified expenditure which could not\n be financed within the limits of the ceilings available for one or more other\n headings as laid down in the multiannual financial framework. The procedures\n for the mobilisation of each of these instruments are laid down in the\n proposal.
As far as the Contingency\n Margin is concerned, this may amount to as much 0.03 % of the Gross\n National Income of the Union and shall be constituted outside the ceilings of\n the financial framework for the period 2007-2013, as a last-resort instrument\n to react to unforeseen circumstances. The Contingency Margin would be\n mobilised by the Council acting on qualified majority with the support of the\n majority of Members of the European Parliament and three-fifths of votes\n cast.
The proposal also contains\n provisions relating to:
· \n technical adjustments to the budget (to recalculate the ceilings\n and remaining margins in current prices);
· \n other forms of budgetary adjustments to deal with situations that\n may require adjustments of the multiannual financial framework. Those\n adjustments may be related to the implementation of the budget, excessive\n government deficit, revision of the Treaty or enlargements.
Lastly, the proposal provides\n for general rules on interinstitutional cooperation to facilitate the annual\n budgetary procedure, rules for the budgeting of the expenditure for the\n Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and rules applicable for the\n transition towards the next financial framework (in principle, the Commission\n will present, by 1 July 2011 at the latest, a proposal for a new financial\n framework; if the framework is not adopted by 31 December 2013 at the latest,\n the ceilings and other provisions of the last year of the previous financial\n framework are extended until the definitive adoption of the new framework).
\nThe Committee on Budgets adopted the\n recommendation drafted by Reimer BÖGE (EPP, DE) on the draft Council\n regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years\n 2007-2013 in which it calls on the European Parliament to decline to\n consent to the draft Council regulation.
Members recall that the existing legal instrument\n laying down the multiannual financial framework needs to be amended following\n the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. To this effect, the three\n institutions have taken a series of measures:
However, Members consider that despite\n the efforts of the Belgian and Hungarian presidencies-in -office, the\n Council has not demonstrated any willingness to enter into negotiations on the\n Lisbon package, as provided for in Article 312(5) of the Treaty on the\n Functioning of the European Union.Areduction in the degree of flexibility in\n the multiannual financial frameworkproposed by the Council would curtail the European Parliament's powers\n and prerogativesin relation\n to those which it currently enjoys. Members state that the Lisbon Treaty was not\n intended to bring about a reduction in the prerogatives of the European\n Parliament, and the European Parliament is not prepared to accept such a reduction.
Consequently, Members of the\n parliamentary committee have rejected the draft Regulation and considers that\n the current Interinstitutional\n Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management\n continues to remain in force until the new regulation laying down the\n multiannual financial framework enters into force, with the exception of the\n articles which have become obsolete following the entry into force of the\n Treaty of Lisbon.
\nThe European Parliament adopted by 581\n votes to 27, with 74 abstentions, a resolution in which it declines to\n consent to the draft Council regulation laying down the multiannual\n financial framework for the years 2007-2013.
To justify this refusal, Parliament\n recalls that the existing legal instrument laying down the multiannual\n financial framework needs to be amended following the entry into force of the\n Treaty of Lisbon. To this effect, the three institutions have taken a series\n of measures:
However, Parliament considers that\n despite the efforts of the Belgian and Hungarian presidencies-in-office, the\n Council has not demonstrated any willingness to enter into negotiations on\n the Lisbon package, as provided for in Article 312(5) of the Treaty on\n the Functioning of the European Union. A reduction in the degree of\n flexibility in the multiannual financial framework proposed by the Council\n would curtail the European Parliament's powers and prerogatives in relation\n to those which it currently enjoys. Members state that the Lisbon Treaty was\n not intended to bring about a reduction in the prerogatives of the European\n Parliament, and the European Parliament is not prepared to accept such a\n reduction.
Consequently, Parliament has rejected the\n draft Regulation and considers that the current Interinstitutional Agreement on\n budgetary discipline and sound financial management continues to remain in\n force until the new regulation laying down the multiannual financial\n framework enters into force, with the exception of the articles which have\n become obsolete following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon.
\nPURPOSE: to propose\n a new multiannual financial framework (2007-2013) revising and codifying the\n current financial framework taking into account the entry into force of the\n Treaty of Lisbon.
PROPOSED ACT:\n Council Regulation.
BACKGROUND:\n the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) stipulates that a\n unanimously adopted Council Regulation shall lay down a multiannual financial\n framework. The financial framework shall determine the amounts of the annual\n ceilings on commitment appropriations by category of expenditure and of the\n annual ceiling on payment appropriations and it shall lay down any other\n provisions required for the annual budgetary procedure to run smoothly.
The practice\n to adopt a multiannual financial framework and provisions on the interinstitutional\n cooperation and budgetary discipline started more than 20 years ago. It has\n immensely improved and simplified the annual budget procedure and cooperation\n between institutions and, as a consequence, increased the budgetary\n discipline.
The current multiannual financial framework for 2007-2013 was\n agreed between institutions in May 2006 and is laid down in the\n Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial\n management (the IIA).\n With the entry into force of the TFEU, the relevant provisions of the current\n IIA need to be codified into a Council Regulation laying down the multiannual\n financial framework (the MFF regulation). This codification represents an\n alignment of the provisions of the current IIA with the requirements of the\n Treaty. However, this alignment has to take into account the change of\n instrument, i.e. a regulation instead of an IIA. For legal reasons, it is,\n however, neither possible nor feasible to transpose all the provisions of the\n current IIA into the MFF regulation. Some of the provisions of the current\n IIA became obsolete with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, many\n shall be incorporated in this MFF regulation, and some in the revised\n Financial Regulation.
A new IIA is\n still necessary for those provisions that do not fit into either of these two\n regulations and incorporate them into the framework of a revised\n IIA (provisions on interinstitutional cooperation, in particular).
Taking into account all the relevant provisions and requirements\n of the Treaty, the current proposal seeks to focus on the financial framework\n in the strictest sense (e.g. annual adjustments of the financial framework,\n revision of the financial framework…). Some of the other provisions\n previously in the IIA have become obsolete (i) provisions related to\n the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure and the\n maximum rate of increase, (ii) the classification of expenditure, (iii) significant\n parts of inter-institutional cooperation are either inappropriate for a\n regulation of this type and should fall within the financial regulation\n (rather than in the MFF regulation) or in the IIA.
The remaining\n provisions – mainly issues relating to pure interinstitutional cooperation –\n are included in a new\n IIA which is the subject of a separate procedure.
For the sake\n of integrity, the draft MFF Regulation and the new IIA are presented together\n and should be negotiated and agreed as one integral package.
IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment\n has been undertaken.
LEGAL BASE:\n Article 312 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) –\n special legislative procedure.
CONTENT: since\n 1988, the multiannual financial framework and related provisions have been\n laid down in interinstitutional agreements. The multiannual financial\n framework for 2007-2013 was established by the Interinstitutional Agreement\n of 17 May 2006 (the IIA).\n With the entry into force of the TFEU, the practice of fixing the financial\n framework by interinstitutional agreement has to be reviewed and the\n multiannual financial framework has to be laid down in the form of a\n regulation. This is the purpose of this proposal which integrates the\n appropriate provisions of the old IIA and takes into account, where required,\n of the amendments that are required by the new Treaty.
As a result, the IIA is to be amended as\n follows:
BUDGETARY\n IMPACT: the proposal has no impact on the EU’s budget. It corresponds to the\n financial framework as revised for the second phase of the European\n Economic Recovery Plan (EERP), adopted by the Council and Parliament on\n 17 December 2009.
\nThe Committee on Budgets adopted the interim report drafted by Reimer BÖGE (EPP, DE) on the proposal for a Council regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2007-2013.
\nThe committee recalls that, according to the European Commission's latest financial programming for 2012-2013, the margin available under heading 1a will be less than EUR 50 million per year and the global margin available under all headings will be limited to EUR 436 million for 2012 and EUR 435 million for 2013.
\nMembers state that the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism has potentially significant budgetary implications.
\nTherefore, in this respect, they request the Council and the Commission to take account of the following recommendations:
\nThe European\n Parliament adopted by 445 votes to 39, with 18 abstentions, a resolution on\n the proposal for a Council regulation laying down the multiannual financial\n framework for the years 2007-2013.
The Parliament\n recalls that, according to the European Commission's latest financial\n programming for 2012-2013, the margin available under heading 1a will be less\n than EUR 50 million per year and the global margin available under all\n headings will be limited to EUR 436 million for 2012 and EUR 435 million for\n 2013.
Members state\n that the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism has potentially\n significant budgetary implications.
Therefore, in\n this respect, they request the Council and the Commission to take account of\n the following recommendations:
The Council decided to forward\n to the European Parliament, for approval, a draft Council Regulation laying\n down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2007-2013. The purpose\n of the text is to adapt the current EU budgetary rules to the provisions of\n the Lisbon Treaty. It also decided to forward to the Parliament the Council’s position on the new draft inter-institutional\n agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on\n cooperation in budgetary matters.
These two new texts seek to\n take into account the wish expressed by the European Parliament to maintain a\n certain degree of flexibility in the management of the multiannual financial\n framework by providing for contingency margin of 0.03% of Gross National\n Income which can be used, as a last resort, to fill spending gaps or needs in\n the EU budget if money cannot be found elsewhere.
The main provisions of this\n draft Regulation may be summarised as follows:
Multiannual financial\n framework: an annex presents the multiannual financial framework for the\n 2007-2013 period, with the details of budget headings year by year. Each of\n these amounts represents an annual ceiling on expenditures to which\n the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission must commit to\n respect in the course of the implementation of the budget for the financial\n year in question. Except in sub-heading 1b of the financial framework,\n for the purposes of sound financial management, they shall ensure as far as\n possible, during the budgetary procedure and at the time of the budget's\n adoption, that sufficient margins are left available beneath the\n ceilings for the various headings.
Revision of the financial\n framework: the financial framework can be revised upon the proposal of the\n Commission, to deal with unforeseen circumstances. Any proposal for a\n revision should examine the scope for reallocation within or between the\n headings and for possible offsetting of any raising of the ceiling for one\n heading by the lowering of the ceiling for another.
Special instruments: the text places\n particular emphasis on the so-called “special instruments” the purpose of\n which is to ensure the flexibility of the financial framework.
The commitment appropriations\n may be entered in the budget outside the ceilings of the relevant headings\n laid down in the financial framework where it is necessary to use the\n resources from:
· \n the\n Emergency Aid Reserve,
· \n the\n Solidarity Fund,
· \n the\n Flexibility Instrument,
· \n the\n European Globalisation Adjustment Fund,
· \n the\n Contingency Margin.
These special instruments are\n necessary to allow the Union to react to specified unforeseen circumstances\n or to allow the financing of clearly identified expenditure which could not\n be financed within the limits of the ceilings available for one or more other\n headings as laid down in the multiannual financial framework. The procedures\n for the mobilisation of each of these instruments are laid down in the\n proposal.
As far as the Contingency\n Margin is concerned, this may amount to as much 0.03 % of the Gross\n National Income of the Union and shall be constituted outside the ceilings of\n the financial framework for the period 2007-2013, as a last-resort instrument\n to react to unforeseen circumstances. The Contingency Margin would be\n mobilised by the Council acting on qualified majority with the support of the\n majority of Members of the European Parliament and three-fifths of votes\n cast.
The proposal also contains\n provisions relating to:
· \n technical adjustments to the budget (to recalculate the ceilings\n and remaining margins in current prices);
· \n other forms of budgetary adjustments to deal with situations that\n may require adjustments of the multiannual financial framework. Those\n adjustments may be related to the implementation of the budget, excessive\n government deficit, revision of the Treaty or enlargements.
Lastly, the proposal provides\n for general rules on interinstitutional cooperation to facilitate the annual\n budgetary procedure, rules for the budgeting of the expenditure for the\n Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and rules applicable for the\n transition towards the next financial framework (in principle, the Commission\n will present, by 1 July 2011 at the latest, a proposal for a new financial\n framework; if the framework is not adopted by 31 December 2013 at the latest,\n the ceilings and other provisions of the last year of the previous financial\n framework are extended until the definitive adoption of the new framework).
\nThe Committee on Budgets adopted the\n recommendation drafted by Reimer BÖGE (EPP, DE) on the draft Council\n regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years\n 2007-2013 in which it calls on the European Parliament to decline to\n consent to the draft Council regulation.
Members recall that the existing legal instrument\n laying down the multiannual financial framework needs to be amended following\n the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon. To this effect, the three\n institutions have taken a series of measures:
However, Members consider that despite\n the efforts of the Belgian and Hungarian presidencies-in -office, the\n Council has not demonstrated any willingness to enter into negotiations on the\n Lisbon package, as provided for in Article 312(5) of the Treaty on the\n Functioning of the European Union.Areduction in the degree of flexibility in\n the multiannual financial frameworkproposed by the Council would curtail the European Parliament's powers\n and prerogativesin relation\n to those which it currently enjoys. Members state that the Lisbon Treaty was not\n intended to bring about a reduction in the prerogatives of the European\n Parliament, and the European Parliament is not prepared to accept such a reduction.
Consequently, Members of the\n parliamentary committee have rejected the draft Regulation and considers that\n the current Interinstitutional\n Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management\n continues to remain in force until the new regulation laying down the\n multiannual financial framework enters into force, with the exception of the\n articles which have become obsolete following the entry into force of the\n Treaty of Lisbon.
\nThe European Parliament adopted by 581\n votes to 27, with 74 abstentions, a resolution in which it declines to\n consent to the draft Council regulation laying down the multiannual\n financial framework for the years 2007-2013.
To justify this refusal, Parliament\n recalls that the existing legal instrument laying down the multiannual\n financial framework needs to be amended following the entry into force of the\n Treaty of Lisbon. To this effect, the three institutions have taken a series\n of measures:
However, Parliament considers that\n despite the efforts of the Belgian and Hungarian presidencies-in-office, the\n Council has not demonstrated any willingness to enter into negotiations on\n the Lisbon package, as provided for in Article 312(5) of the Treaty on\n the Functioning of the European Union. A reduction in the degree of\n flexibility in the multiannual financial framework proposed by the Council\n would curtail the European Parliament's powers and prerogatives in relation\n to those which it currently enjoys. Members state that the Lisbon Treaty was\n not intended to bring about a reduction in the prerogatives of the European\n Parliament, and the European Parliament is not prepared to accept such a\n reduction.
Consequently, Parliament has rejected the\n draft Regulation and considers that the current Interinstitutional Agreement on\n budgetary discipline and sound financial management continues to remain in\n force until the new regulation laying down the multiannual financial\n framework enters into force, with the exception of the articles which have\n become obsolete following the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon.
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