Amending budget No 3/2014

Commission's proposal:

• Draft Amending Budget 4/2014, COM(2014) 461 - 9 July 2014,
• Amending Letter to DAB 4/2014, COM(2014) 641 - 16 October 2014

Council's position: 12 December 2014
Parliament's position: 17 December 2014

Amending Budget (AB) No 3 for the year 2014 concerns the following:

• A decrease in the forecast of Traditional Own Resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties and sugar sector levies) and VAT bases, amounting to EUR 838,6 million;
• An increase in the forecast of other revenue stemming from fines and interests, amounting to EUR 2 433,0 million;
• The budgeting of the relevant UK corrections;

• The financing resulting of three abovementioned elements in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget;
• The reduction of the budgetary appropriations, both commitments and payments by EUR 0,2 million for the European Data Protection Supervisor, due to the postponement of the appointment of the new European Data Protection Supervisor and Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor;

• The increase of the payment appropriations, by EUR 0,2 million, for the humanitarian aid (budget article 23 02  01);
• The reduction of commitment appropriations for the budget lines 11 03 01, 11 06 62 01 and 11 06 62 04 amounting to EUR 74,7 million (of which EUR 71,0 million in reserve);
  The modification of budget article 13 03 64 European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) - European territorial cooperation into three separate budget items (13 03 64 01, 13 03 64 02 and 13 03 64 03), to reflect the final adoption of the related legal base;
• The creation of a new budget article 05 03 09 Reimbursement of direct aids in relation to financial discipline, with a 'p.m.'; and
• the replacement of the dash '–' for payment appropriations on budget item 11 06 77 03 Preparatory action – Maritime policy by a 'p.m.'.