Amending letter No 1/2019

This Amending Letter No 1 to the draft budget for the year 2019 (AL 1/2019) covers the following

• The updating of the estimated needs, assigned revenue and appropriations for agricultural expenditure. In addition to changing market factors, AL 1/2019 also incorporates the impact of decisions in the agricultural sector since the DB 2019 was adopted in June 2018, as well as other proposals expected to have a significant effect during 2019.
• The updating of the commitment and payment appropriations as a result of recent political agreements reached between the European Parliament and the Council on the following proposals of the Commission:
  • The creation of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme;
  • The creation of the European Solidarity Corps;
  • The adaptation of the general objective and the increase of the financial envelope of the Structural Reform Support Programme.
• The impact of new initiatives recently tabled by the Commission concerning:
  • The European Border and Coast Guard Agency;
  • The European Union Agency for Asylum;
  • The Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations.
• Other adjustments based on the latest developments concerning Europol, eu-LISA, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, the European External Action Service and the sustainable fisheries partnership agreements;
• Technical corrections as regards the establishment plan of the European Medicines Agency and the budget remark of the support expenditure line of the ISA² programme.

Overall, the net impact of AL 1/2019 on expenditure in the draft budget 2019 is a decrease of EUR 45,0 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 85,0 million in payment appropriations.