Amending budget No 1/2015

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 2/2015, COM(2015) 16 – 20 January 2015
Council's position: 21 April 2015
Parliament's position: 28 April 2015

Amending budget (AB) No 1 to the 2015 budget is presented together with the Commission's parallel proposal for a revision of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the years 2014-2020, in accordance with Article 19 of Council Regulation No 1311/2013 (MFF Regulation).

The revision of the MFF and the adoption of this AB No 1 are a necessary condition for the adoption in 2015 of the programmes which have not been adopted and for which the 2014 allocation has not been used. The corresponding commitments should accordingly be re-programmed to subsequent years. All 28 Member States are concerned by this re-programming exercise.

In accordance with the MFF revision proposed separately, AB No 1 proposes a EUR 16 476,4 million increase in commitment appropriations in 2015 for the various Funds under shared management under sub-heading 1b, heading 2 and heading 3. AB No 1 also proposes an increase of EUR 2,5 million for the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II) under heading 4, to preserve the similar treatment between contributions from heading 4 and heading 1b to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) – European territorial cooperation (ETC) programmes.