Amending budget No 4/2017

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 4/2017, COM(2017) 541 - 26 June 2017
Council's position: 4 September 2017
Parliament's position: 13 September 2017

Amending Budget (AB) No 4 for the year 2017 accompanies the proposal to mobilise the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) for an amount of EUR 1 196 797 579 to provide assistance to Italy further to a series of earthquakes that took place between August 2016 and January 2017 in the regions of Abruzzo, Lazio, Marche and Umbria.

AB No 4/2017 proposes to enter in the general budget 2017 EUR 1 166 797 579 in commitment and payment appropriations to cover the budgetary needs of this mobilisation, after having deducted the advance already paid in 2016 (EUR 30 000 000).