PURPOSE: final adoption of amending budget 6/2009.

LEGISLATIVE ACT: 2009/801/EC, Euratom.

CONTENT: the European Parliament has adopted amending budget No 6 to the European Union for the financial year 2006 in accordance with its resolution of 15 September (please refer to the summary of the resolution).

This amending budget covers:

the revision of the forecast of Traditional Own Resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties and sugar levies), VAT and GNI bases, the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing, the revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2009.

The European Parliament adopted, by 600 votes to 8, with 33 abstentions, a resolution approving, unamended, the draft amending budget No 6/2009.

Parliament recalls that the sole purpose of this draft amending budget is to incorporate formally the following technical adjustments into the 2009 budget:

the revision of the forecast of traditional own resources as well as the Value-added Tax (VAT) and Gross National Income (GNI) bases; the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing; the revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2009.

The Committee on Budgets unanimously adopted the report drawn up by Jutta HAUG (SD, DE) approving unamended draft amending budget No 6/2009.

The committee recalls that the sole purpose of this draft amending budget is to incorporate formally the following technical adjustments into the 2009 budget:

the revision of the forecast of traditional own resources as well as the Value-added Tax (VAT) and Gross National Income (GNI) bases; the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing; the revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2009.

On 19 June 2009, the Commission forwarded to the Council preliminary draft amending budget (PDAB) No. 6/2009. This PDAB covers the revision of the forecast of traditional own resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties and sugar levies), VAT and GNI bases, the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing and the revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2009.

The result is a change in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget.

On 13 July 2009, the Council established draft amending budget No. 6 for the financial year 2009, as submitted by the Commission in its preliminary draft amending budget No. 6 and as set out in the technical annex to the explanatory memorandum of this Council draft budget (see Council doc. 11888/09 ADD 1 ).

On 19 June 2009, the Commission forwarded to the Council preliminary draft amending budget (PDAB) No. 6/2009. This PDAB covers the revision of the forecast of traditional own resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties and sugar levies), VAT and GNI bases, the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing and the revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2009.

The result is a change in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget.

On 13 July 2009, the Council established draft amending budget No. 6 for the financial year 2009, as submitted by the Commission in its preliminary draft amending budget No. 6 and as set out in the technical annex to the explanatory memorandum of this Council draft budget (see Council doc. 11888/09 ADD 1 ).

PURPOSE: to present the Preliminary Draft Amending Budget No 6 to the Budget for 2009 (PDAB 6/2009).

CONTENT: the Preliminary Draft Amending Budget No 6 to the Budget for 2009 covers:

the revision of the forecast of Traditional Own Resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties and sugar levies), VAT and GNI bases, the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing, the revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2009, resulting in a change in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget.

This PDB aims to amend the distribution of total own resources payments between Member States, according to the following breakdown:

BE: EUR 4 936 282 512 BG: EUR 412 250 295 CZ: EUR 1 476 228 906 DK: EUR 2 648 238 714 DE: EUR 20 625 816 943 EE: EUR 173 761 257 IE: EUR 1 606 362 161 EL: EUR 2 607 003 578 ES: EUR 11 556 805 014 FR: EUR 20 533 482 611 IT: EUR 16 366 873 983 CY: EUR 212 708 017 LV: EUR 208 792 324 LT: EUR 331 521 508 0 LU: EUR 300 727 816 HU: EUR 995 227 324 MT: EUR 67 922 068 NL: EUR 3 640 553 274 AT: EUR 2 454 409 510 PL: EUR 3 378 422 359 PT: EUR 1 690 419 065 RO: EUR 1 406 625 953 SI: EUR 441 346 690 SK: EUR 772 424 596 FI: EUR 1 938 479 958 SE: EUR 1 825 801 533 UK: EUR 10 407 900 050

PURPOSE: to present the Preliminary Draft Amending Budget No 6 to the Budget for 2009 (PDAB 6/2009).

CONTENT: the Preliminary Draft Amending Budget No 6 to the Budget for 2009 covers:

the revision of the forecast of Traditional Own Resources (TOR, i.e. customs duties and sugar levies), VAT and GNI bases, the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections as well as their financing, the revision of financing of GNI reductions in favour of the Netherlands and Sweden in 2009, resulting in a change in the distribution between Member States of their own resources contributions to the EU budget.

This PDB aims to amend the distribution of total own resources payments between Member States, according to the following breakdown:

BE: EUR 4 936 282 512 BG: EUR 412 250 295 CZ: EUR 1 476 228 906 DK: EUR 2 648 238 714 DE: EUR 20 625 816 943 EE: EUR 173 761 257 IE: EUR 1 606 362 161 EL: EUR 2 607 003 578 ES: EUR 11 556 805 014 FR: EUR 20 533 482 611 IT: EUR 16 366 873 983 CY: EUR 212 708 017 LV: EUR 208 792 324 LT: EUR 331 521 508 0 LU: EUR 300 727 816 HU: EUR 995 227 324 MT: EUR 67 922 068 NL: EUR 3 640 553 274 AT: EUR 2 454 409 510 PL: EUR 3 378 422 359 PT: EUR 1 690 419 065 RO: EUR 1 406 625 953 SI: EUR 441 346 690 SK: EUR 772 424 596 FI: EUR 1 938 479 958 SE: EUR 1 825 801 533 UK: EUR 10 407 900 050