PURPOSE: to mobilise the flexibility instrument in
order to finance support for measures for managing the challenges
of migration, refugee inflows and security threats.
PROPOSED ACT: Decision of the European Parliament and
of the Council.
CONTENT: Council Regulation (EU, EURATOM) No 1311/2013
of 2 December 2013 lays down the multiannual
financial framework for the years 2014-2020 allowing for
the mobilisation of the flexibility instrument to allow the
financing of clearly identified expenditure which could not be
financed within the limits of the ceilings available for one or
more headings of the multiannual financial framework.
In accordance with Article 11 of Council Regulation No
1311/2013 and point 12 of the Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the
Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary
matters and on sound financial management, after having examined
all possibilities for re-allocating appropriations and exhausted
any unallocated margin under the expenditure heading Security and
Citizenship (heading 3), the Commission proposes to mobilise the
flexibility instrument in 2018 for an amount of EUR 817.1
million.
This mobilisation is intended to finance support for
measures for managing the challenges of migration, refugee
inflows and security threats.
The payment appropriations corresponding to the
mobilisation of the flexibility instrument shall be distributed
indicatively as follows:
- EUR 452.9 million in 2018;
- EUR 207.6 million in 2019;
- EUR 123.3 million in 2020;
- EUR 33.3 million in 2021.
NB: this proposal takes account of the proposal
to amend Regulation No 1311/2013, referred to above, to carry
out the mid-term revision of the 2014-2020 financial
framework. If the final text of the amendment to Regulation No
1311/2013 amends the amounts provided for in the Commission
proposal, this proposal for the mobilisation of the flexibility
instrument shall be revised accordingly.