Draft amending budget No 5/2022

Commission's proposal: Draft Amending Budget 5/2022, COM(2022) 351 – 05 Octobre 2022
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Additional measures to address the consequences of the Russian War in Ukraine
Union Civil Protection Mechanism reinforcement
Reduction in payment appropriations and update of revenues
Other adjustments and technical updates

The purpose of Draft Amending Budget No 5 for the year 2022 (DAB5) is to update the expenditure and revenue sides of the 2022 budget for the following purposes:

• To include the financing of the new short-term instrument to address existing defence investment gaps through common procurement, for an amount of EUR 83 million.
• To reinforce the emergency measures under the Food Chain strand of the Single Market programme, in order to reimburse Member States following a series of outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and African swine fever, for an amount of EUR 73,8 million.
• To frontload and reinforce the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM/rescEU), so as to continue channelling in-kind assistance to Ukraine. Additionally, helicopters and other light planes will be leased to increase Union’s preparedness for aerial firefighting in 2023 and accelerate the procurement of permanent aerial capacities.
• To reinforce the EU contribution to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) to avoid operational difficulties, for an amount of 0,7 million.
• To reinforce administrative expenditure and pensions in heading 7 for an amount of EUR 163 million as a result of high inflation and rapidly rising energy prices.
• To decrease the level of payment appropriations for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and EU4Health by respectively EUR 775 million and EUR 129,2 million. These amounts could not be included in the redeployments proposed in the "Global transfer" (DEC 16/2022) to be submitted to Parliament and Council on 5 October.
• Taking into account the delay in the approval of a new ‘ReFuelEU Aviation’ mandate for the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), it is proposed to return the corresponding amount from the reserve to the transport line of the Connecting Europe Facility, from which it was offset.
• To update the estimates for Traditional Own Resources (TOR) as well as to incorporate the impact of exchange rate differences.

Overall, the net impact of this DAB on expenditure amounts to an increase of EUR 447,5 million in commitment appropriations and a decrease of EUR 741,1 million in payment appropriations.

The overall impact on the revenue side is a net decrease in the GNI contributions of EUR 3 779 million.