Amending budget No 2/2018

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 2/2018, COM(2018) 227 – 13 April 2018
Council's position: 18 June 2018
Parliament's position: 4 July 2018

Amending Budget (AB) No 2/2018 is intended to enter in the 2018 budget the surplus resulting from the implementation of the budget year 2017. As provided for in Article 18 § 3 of the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the Union, the surplus is the only subject of this AB 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.