Amending budget No 2/2014

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 3/2014, COM(2014) 329 – 28 May 2014
Council's position – 12 December 2014
Parliament's position – 17 December 2014

Amending budget (AB) No 2 for the year 2014 covers the following:

• an increase in the forecast of other revenue stemming from fines and interests, amounting to EUR 1 417,0 million;

• an increase in the forecast of other revenue stemming from repayments and revenue paid back to the Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership (FEMIP), amounting to EUR 151,0 million;
• redeployment of payment appropriations of EUR 717,4 million;

• an overall increase of payment appropriations of EUR 4 246,7 million across headings 1a, 1b, 2, 3 and 4 for which the Contingency Margin in accordance with Article 13 of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) Regulation is mobilised. This is with the aim of addressing events that were unforeseen when the 2014-2020 MFF payment ceilings were agreed; and
• an adjustment of the establishment plans of the Commission, the Offices, the Committee of the Regions and the European Data Protection Supervisor, to take account of the conversion of posts in the function group for Assistants (AST) into posts in the new function group for Secretaries and Clerks (AST/SC), now that reliable estimates of the number of posts concerned in 2014 have become available. The requested conversion of posts leads to a saving of administrative expenditure under heading 5 of EUR 0,4 million. The corresponding payment appropriations become available for redeployment.