Amending budget No 3/2016

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 3/2016, COM(2016) 310 – 30 June 2016
Council's position: 11 October 2016
Parliament's position: 25 October 2016

Following the November 2015 attacks in Paris and those of March 2016 in Brussels, all institutions have reviewed their security needs in the short to medium term. The draft budget for 2017 incorporates additional elements related to security for almost all institutions. However, in some cases the need to accelerate the reinforcement of security measures and installations requires additional resources in 2016 already.

Amending budget (AB) No 3 for the year 2016 proposes to reinforce the budget for security for a total of EUR 15,8 million, as follows:

In EUR million, rounded figures

The result is an increase of non-differentiated expenditure in the 2016 budget for heading 5 Administration. However, it is proposed to redeploy the necessary payment appropriations from the ITER operational line in heading 1a to avoid any impact on the global level of payments.