Amending budget No 8/2015

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 8/2015, COM(2015) 545 – 19 October 2015
Council's position: 10 November 2015
Parliament's position: 25 November 2015

Amending Budget (AB) No 8 for the year 2015 concerns the following:

• A revision of the forecast of Traditional Own Resources (customs duties),
• The budgeting of the remainder of the 2014 VAT and GNI own resources balances,
• The budgeting of the 2015 VAT and GNI own resources balances,
• An update of the forecast for other revenue,
• A reduction of EUR 123 474 in both commitment and payment appropriation in the budget of the European Data Protection Supervisor.

The overall impact in terms of revenue, is a decrease in the GNI based contribution of EUR 9.4 billion.