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At a glance
INFOGRAPHIC - 21 November 2014
2015 EU budget negotiation
The charts below show how the positions adopted so far by the Parliament, Council and the Commission
compare to each other and to the 2014 EU budget.
Total EU budget (commitments, billion euros, current prices)
142.64
145.60
145.08
146.38
0
50
100
150
EU budget by policy area (commitments, billion euros, current prices)
50
50
2014 EU budget
2015 draft EU budget European Parliament
2015 draft EU budget Council
2015 draft EU budget commission
49
EU budget 2014
5050
44
48
47
44
47
2015 Draft budget Commission
2015 draft EU budget European Parliament
2015 draft EU budget Council
2015 draft EU budget commission
EU budget 2014
Economic, social and territorial cohesion
43
2015 Draft budget Council position
43
Agriculture
2015 Draft budget EP position
€ billion
4040
3030
18
18
2020
15.5
2015 draft EU budget European Parliament
15,5
2015 draft EU budget Council
2015 draft EU budget commission
2015 draft EU budget European Parliament
2015 draft EU budget Council
2015 draft EU budget commission
EU budget 2014
17
16
EU budget 2014
14.5
16
14,5
Competitiveness for growth and jobs
Rural development, environment, fisheries
2.5
2,5
9
9
2015 draft EU budget European Parliament
9
2015 draft EU budget Council
2015 draft EU budget commission
9
EU budget 2014
1.5
8
Economic,
Agriculture
Rural
Security and
social and
development,
citizenship
territorial
environment,
cohesion
fisheries
Competitiveness for growth
Economic,
and social
jobs
and territorial cohesion
Agriculture
Rural development,
environment,Security
fisheries
and citizenship
2015 draft EU budget Council
2015 draft EU budget commission
2015 draft EU budget commission
EU budget 2014
EU budget 2014
8
Administrative
8.41
8.61
8.58
8.68
Competitiveness
for
growth and jobs
8
Administrative
2.17
2.13
2.10
2.22
15.49
15.35
15.33
15.36
43.78
43.90
43.86
43.94
47.50
49.23
49.23
49.25
Security and citizenship
16.48
17.45
17.12
17.67
00
8
2015 draft EU budget European Parliament
2015 draft EU budget Council
8.33
8.41
8.34
8.75
1010
1,5
2015 draft EU budget European Parliament
Global
Europe
Administration
Global Europe
Administrative
2015 EU budget payments, % of EU GNI
2015Commission
Draft Budget
1.02%
MFF
ceiling 2015
MFF
ceiling
2015
1.02%
Council's Position on 2015
DB
Council
1.00%
1.0%
0.9%
0,009
Includes the use of
flexibility instruments
above the MFF ceiling
1.04%
EP's position on on 2015 DB EP
0,010
1.1%
Member States’ budgets
as percentage of EU GNI (2015)
47.8%
0,011
State of play
Along with negotiations on the 2015 EU budget, Parliament and Council have been discussing modifications to the 2014 budget.
Council has also asked Parliament to give an urgent opinion on a regulation related to the Own Resources system. The two arms
of the Budgetary Authority failed to reach agreement by the end of conciliation at midnight on 17 November 2014. The main
problems concern Council’s reluctance to again provide sufficient payments to tackle the ever-growing pile of unpaid bills and to
use the flexibility instruments above the Multiannual Financial Framework ceilings. The Commission has been asked to prepare
a new draft 2015 EU budget. If agreement is not reached by the end of the year, a system of provisional twelfths will come into
force providing emergency funding based on this year’s spending patterns.
EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service
Author: Fabia Jones, Giulio Sabbati
Members’ Research Service
PE 542.152
EPRS
2015 EU budget negotiation
Competitiveness for growth and jobs includes expenditure on Horizon 2020; large infrastructure projects
(Galileo, ITER, Copernicus); Connecting Europe Facility (CEF); Education, Training and Sport (Erasmus+);
Nuclear Safety and Decommissioning; Euratom Research and Training Programme; Competitiveness of enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (COSME); Employment and Social Innovation; Customs,
Fiscalis and Anti-Fraud; Energy projects to aid economic recovery.
Economic, social and territorial cohesion includes European Regional Development Fund (ERDF); European
Social Fund (ESF); Cohesion Fund; CEF cohesion fund contribution; European territorial cooperation; Youth
Employment Initiative (specific top-up allocation); European Aid to the Most Deprived.
Agriculture includes European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) market related expenditure and direct
payments.
EU budget by policy area Rural development, environment, fisheries.
(commitments, billion euros, Security and Citizenship includes Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund; Internal Security Fund; IT systems; Justice; Rights; Equality and Citizenship; Union Civil Protection Mechanism; Europe for Citizens; Food
current prices)
and Feed; Health; Consumer; Creative Europe.
Global Europe includes Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance; European Neighbourhood Instrument; Development Cooperation Instrument; Partnership instrument for cooperation with third countries; European
Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights; Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace; Humanitarian
Aid; Common Foreign and Security Policy; Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation; Macro-financial Assistance; Guarantee Fund for External Actions; Union Civil Protection Mechanism; EU Aid Volunteers Initiative.
Administration includes administrative expenditure of the EU institutions.
The total budget also includes compensations, Emergency Aid Reserve, European Globalisation Adjustment
Fund, European Union Solidarity Fund.
Data source: European Commission (EC).
Member States’ budgets
as percentage of EU GNI
The percentage has been calculated using data from DG ECFIN forecast for 2015. Member States’ budgets
refers to EU28 General Government total expenditure.
The package of negotiations on the 2015 EU budget includes a Council request for Parliament to deliver an
urgent opinion on a proposal to amend a regulation related to the Own Resources system; an amending letter (AL) to the 2015 draft EU budget; and draft amending budgets (DABs), an AL and proposals to mobilise
flexibility instruments to the 2014 EU budget. A brief description of each item is set out below.
Commission proposal COM(2014) 704 amending Council Regulation 1150/2000 implementing Own Resources Decision 2007/436: to allow Member States to cope with exceptionally large revisions to own resources
contributions.
AL 1/2015: agricultural forecasts update, redeployment of higher than anticipated EAGF assigned revenue,
mobilisation of the agricultural crisis reserve to help deal with the Russian embargo.
DAB 2/2014: 2013 EU budget surplus.
DAB 3/2014: Additional payments for the Fisheries Fund, unpaid bills and new commitments financed via
redeployment, the 2014 margin and the contingency margin; increased revenue from fines and interest
payments and reimbursements and repayments to FEMIP (Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and
Partnership).
State of play
Proposal to mobilise the Contingency Margin to react to circumstances unforeseen when the MFF ceilings
were established: frontloading for Horizon 2020, Erasmus+ and COSME; increase in the Fund for European
Aid to the Most Deprived; higher than estimated unpaid cohesion policy payment claims; increase in cofinancing of rural development and European Fisheries Fund; support for Ukraine.
DAB 4/2014: Revision of estimates of own resources and other revenue, particularly from fines, and modifications regarding the European Data Protection Supervisor, the ERDF and budget nomenclature.
AL to DAB 4/2014: upward revision of revenue estimates.
DAB 5/2014: Floods in Italy, earthquake in Greece, ice storm in Slovenia, ice and floods in Croatia.
Proposal to mobilise the EU Solidarity Fund: Floods in Italy, earthquake in Greece, ice storm in Slovenia, ice
and floods in Croatia.
DAB 6/2014: Revision of traditional own resources, VAT and GNI contributions forecasts.
DAB 7/2014: Floods in Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria.
Proposal to mobilise the EU Solidarity Fund: Floods in Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria.
Proposal to mobilise the EU Solidarity Fund: advance payments to regions affected by disasters.
Proposal to mobilise the flexibility instrument for Structural Fund Programmes for Cyprus.
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