Amending budget No 2/2020

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 2/2020, COM(2020) 170 – 2 April 2020
Council's position: 14 April 2020
Parliament's position: 17 April 2020

The purpose of Amending Budget (AB) No 2 for the year 2020 is to provide EUR 3 000,0 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 1 530,0 million in payment appropriations under heading 3 Security and Citizenship to finance the provision of emergency support within the Union through the Emergency Support Instrument, which is proposed to be re-activated to help tackle the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak and to further reinforce the Union Civil Protection Mechanism/rescEU to allow wider stock-piling and coordination of essential resource distribution across Europe.