Details
- Publication date
- 6 January 2018
- Related department
- Directorate-General for Budget
Description
Commission's proposal: COM(2017) 271 – 30 May 2017
Council's position: 30 November 2017
Parliament's position: 30 November 2017
Having examined all possibilities for re-allocating appropriations under the expenditure ceiling for heading 3 (Security and citizenship), it is necessary to mobilise the Flexibility Instrument to supplement the financing available in the general budget of the Union for the financial year 2018, beyond the ceilings of heading 3 by the amount of EUR 837 241 199 to finance measures in the field of migration, refugees and security. This amount includes amounts which lapsed in the previous years of the European Union Solidarity Fund and of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund and which are made available for the Flexibility Instrument in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 11(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013.
On the basis of the expected payment profile, the distribution of the payment appropriations corresponding to the mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument shall be estimated as follows: EUR 464 039 631 in 2018, EUR 212 683 883 in 2019, EUR 126 354 910 in 2020 and EUR 34 162 775 in 2021.