1 Amendments of André ELISSEN related to 2018/2057(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes, once again, the relatively high level of competition fines in 2017, totalling EUR 3 273 million; considers that, besides any surplus resulting from under-implementation, the Union budget should be enabled to reuse any revenue resulting from fines or linked to late payments without a corresponding decrease in GNI contributions; recalls its proposal for a special reserve to be establishaccording to the existing rules, revenue resulting from fines or linked to late payments should not be reused inby the Union budget, which will be progressively filled up by all types of unforeseen other revenue and duly carried over in order to provide additional spending possibilities when the need arise and should instead be used to decrease national GNI contributions;