PURPOSE: to present the Draft Amending Budget
(DAB) No 2/2018 entering the surplus for the financial year
2017.
CONTENT: the aim of this DAB is to enter in the
2018 budget the surplus resulting from the implementation of the
budget year 2017.
As provided for in the Financial Regulation
applicable to the general budget of the Union, the surplus is the
only subject of this DAB and it has to be submitted within 15 days
following the submission of the provisional accounts at end of
March 2018.
The implementation of the budget year 2017
shows a surplus of EUR 555 542 325, which is therefore
entered as revenue in the 2018 budget.
The budgeting of the surplus will diminish
accordingly the global contribution of the Member States to the
financing of the 2018 budget. The contributions by Member States
will also be influenced by the updated own resources forecast
(Traditional Own Resources (TOR), Value Added Tax (VAT) and Gross
National Income (GNI)) including the updated amount of the UK
correction which will be available after the Advisory Committee on
Own Resources meeting in May 2018 and included in a subsequent
Draft Amending Budget.
The implementation by the Commission reached
99.9 % of the authorised payment appropriations. The amount
not implemented was EUR 201 million, of which EUR 99 million of the
Emergency Aid Reserve. The under-implementation of the other
institutions of EUR 83 million was lower than in previous two years
(EUR 103 million in 2016 and EUR 94 million in 2015).