PURPOSE: to present Draft Amending Budget N°
7/2013.
CONTENT: Draft amending budget (DAB) No 7 for the year
2013 covers an increase of commitment appropriations of EUR 150
million in heading 1b of the multi-annual financial framework
(MFF).
This is with the aim of addressing certain issues
resulting from the final outcome of the negotiations of the MFF for
the years 2014-2020, affecting France, Italy and Spain. The
European Council of 27 and 28 June 2013 considered that a budgetary
solution should be given to that matter.
In view of the current economic crisis and as a
contribution to the special effort needed to address the
specific situations of unemployment, in particular youth
unemployment, and of poverty and social exclusion in these
Member States, the Commission considers that the most appropriate
way to assist them is by increasing the European Social Fund
(ESF).
As the existing allocations have already been fully
committed in the EU budget, the Commission proposes to increase
the ESF allocations to those three Member States for the year
2013.
The reinforcement of EUR 150 million in
commitment appropriations will be covered by the margin under the
expenditure ceiling of heading 1b (EUR 16 million), and by the
mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument (EUR 134 million)
targeted at this specific action.