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Directorate of Agriadtura1 of Agriculture, Athens, Greece

Common Agricutluual

budget of (EU) on

of a unified Council and a unified Commission of 8th 1965). On 1st 1968 it

of the Communities which had existed then, namely the of the Coal and Steel Community), the budget of the

EEC of investment of

into 1971 the of (22

1970).

by of of (ECSC) and

A the details to up and

of ahe budget, as well. as the submission and auditing of

supplemented of the budget

The budget (i..

.

must be

in in the budget to

of of the ECSC and of the

of of the EEC and of

of of five sections, which into of

the Council (Economic and Social Committee appended) the Commission

(V) of

and to budget allocations

and and

The budget is up and in ECU. The budget is funded the

and isoglucose and own VAT and (Tables 1 and 2).

should be noted that in 1988 an

Council and the Commission which was aimed at the the goals of the Act of

Union, in to about of the conclusions of the

Council in about fiscal discipline, and to of the annual the

fiscal discipline and the of of the

to be found in L185/88, pages 33-35).

The by of 1993 (C-331/7.12.93).

The of in with the conclusions of fhe

on 29 June

to the functioning of the annual .

and on This is

intended to that, h down by

in an within the limits of the own the community.

the 1993-99, which

constitutes of it.

The 1993 to of and

subheading, amounts of in of

annual totals of also shown in of

The the Counsil and the Commission acknowledge that each of the

absolute mounts shown the 1993 to an anual ceiling on

Also, in such a way as to

comply with the ceilings and when

implementing the budget the

decisions of the Council taken on 24th June 1988 and on 31~t

system of own of the Communities”, the total amount of own

1988 to 1999, the following

of the total of in question:

1988: 1.15 % 1994 1.20 % 1989: % 1995: 1.21 %

1990 % 1996: 1.22 ^%

1991: 1.19 % 1997 1.24 %

1992 1.20 % 1998: 1.26 % 1993: 1.20 % 1999: 1.27 %

The in of obligations must show a

wlli in a total allocation not exceeding 1.335% of the total of the Community in 1999. The above conditions continue to be applied, uniil the Council amends its decision.

on 1st on

1st July of of

in 1st

at the latest, submits it to the with

The Council up the it to at the latest

of to the budget

of necessity acts, constituted on

-

but the amendments and changes

must be submitted to is

taken.

of total amendment, wi'-hin the limits of a highest amount of of this

The of the budget of

budget and seek the submission of

The do not

total amount of the annual budget) final amount).

of to a budget allocation may be amended by means of

The implementation of the budget is in the hands of out in

with the on its own also

to of but it

that section of the budget which is

(Table 3). 1st June of of

Commission makes known that to

of

These accounts in of an

an analysis of

Since 1977, audit out by of

of the Communities. This out an examination of the accounts of all

of of

of

The audits can be out of

on the basis of kept and if out on-

the-spot at Community institutions and in the

The of up an annual and can also, at any

about an

has been made by an institution of of

of the implementation of the budget. To ^this end, the

well as the m u d of the of to take all the

the in the decisions

and

2

The above applies to the budget of the EU. this text, is

and in of the

1988, because of in this it was decided of

the Council 88/377/EEC, 24th June 1988, that of the

in of the must not exceed 74 % of the

of the in the of the Community. of of the

known as the must be The

basis of the in wit% is

of 27,500 million ECU 1988.

With ^a view to

to the taken by of the of the

the beginning of the expected of

of the budget of on the basis of the

of with of

Consequently the

Council on the of in to that

of the development of that if is a

that it will exceed it, the at

its disposal, including those based on to the situation (Table 4).

of

in and to the Council which

intended to assist effectiveness. The Council decides within a month how the basis of the

which the

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of at the latest on the day of the second month following the month

of no

to

up of the mual of the EAGGF-

Section to of

of

The sum of 500 million ECU of

of the amount which will

in at the time in to the employed

of the budget.

These not a case of an

of ECU, connection with of the

budget, the amount saved up to the value of 500 million ECU, in When a in the value of the against the ECU,

of is used and a

is made it to the of the which

affected by the fall of All the amounts saved, in

in out and in this way lead .to

which in a

with to the budget of An

exempted sum of 200 million ECU is in

The this amount, do not entail

exceed this in it.

3. OF

of of the

EAGGF-Guidance Section, as well is

in a special subsection of the budget of the Commission. this

the structural funds is mentioned (Guidance, and Social), as well as the

of of the of

The funding of this subsection is made a of it takes

place of of

funds and of the

to the up of the

this token docation to

is that the of of the is made

that is, each amount

be that the to the of of the EAGGF

-

of advance payments, that is, the advance is

the submission of and if it is that 50 ^% of

up to 80 % of

the EAGGF, in of

Table 5 contains data 1993-99. of

in of as

Table

Own 3

hancial

~ ~~~~~

the 1994 own

to the and

of value added ^{t a x} own hancial the additional

4 dues 5

of the 6

of

to Communi9

within Economic

7

I

and lending

1996 81,320,317,223

p.m.

p.m.

444,764,168

91,694,100

9,253,000

p.m.

17,488,000 4,924,500

1

I

1995

I

I

70,244,632,4181 68,082,069,352.101

~ ~~~

6,589,000,000 971,143,201.60

0.00

p.m. 0.00

0.00

l

l

91,783,750 74,607,414.05

9,441,000 348,934,087.03

p.m.

717,1330.95 49,128,000 15,454,276.09 16,717,000 35,367,673.17

Source: Budget 1996 @22/96)

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Table 3.

Expenditure of the Budget

A. Section

-

1. EAGGF 2.

ind

(Subsection

5. and

and technology development (Subsection B6) 7.

8. C o m o n , (Subsection

9. and

-

B. - Commission A)

Section

-

Total

to 9)

of own VAT ahd own

on financial

of own the EAGGF

Total

to the own to

of

Source: Budget 1996 (L22/96)

Amount

41,328,000,000 26,005,632,000 823,355,000

194,520,000 666,522,000 3,096,604,000 4,649,936,000 68,250,000 927,000,000 77,759,819,000

296,735,349

80,456,554,349 1,431,886,642

568,123,768

* 568,123,768 81,320,317,223

Table 4 of

at 31 August 1996

Chapter

81-11

Olive oil

€31-13 &

plants

& veg Wine

81-18

&

§heepmeat &

goatmeat

a 17.185

1.942 1.7831 386 894 1.729 1.113 1.106 314 26.456 4.214 5.458 1.353 168 150 146 48

Payments from 16.10

to 30.6.96

b 15.019.2

1.334.3 1.790.8

182.4 738.6 1.202.0

609.8 840.9 224.7 21.942.7 2.644.3 4.374.9 863.9 95.1 111.9 83.2 16.8

Utilization

87.4 68.7 100.6 47.3 82.6 69.54 54.8 76.0 71.6 83.0 62.8 80.2 63.9 56.6 74.6 57.0 35.0

T

O/O

94.1 74.6 83.1 69.3 98.1 79.8 78.5 77.8 70.2 89.1 73.5 87.4 48.9 80.3 73.5 75.7 65.9

ECU

e=(cPa)/reQO

16.165.9 1.448.4 1.479.3 267.7 879.6 1.379.2 873.6 860.2 220.4 23.571.3

--

3.096.4 4.769.3 661.9 134.9 110.2 110.6 31.6

ECU's Gap between utilization

and indicator

-1.146.7 -114.1 311.5 -85.3

-138.0 -177.2 -263.8

-19.3 4.3 -1.628.6 -452.1 -394.4 202.0 -39.8 1.7 -27.4 -14.8 continued

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combat development

11.537

I

616 83

-

200

1.657

346.8 22.2

65.8 19.0 291.6 130.8 876.2 20

2.254

1

41.918

-584.3 -1.090 31.862.6

TOTAL 40.828 31.2783

71.0

I

56.3

I

- -

32.9 58.3 43.2 70.7

56.1 55.5

52.9 ⁱ 84.0 69.5

37.1 32.3

76.0 81.8

76.6 Source: 8/96 to the Budget Authority

8.914.9 421.3 60.2

-

116.6 31.1 288.4 137.4 1.055.0 13.9 728.1 34.283.2

-724.8 -74.5 -38.0

50.8 -12.1 3.2 -6.6 -178.8 2.9 108.7.

-2.420.6

Table 5

Appropriations for commitments

2

-

I

- -

-

-

commitments

(%

million

-

0,Ol 0,Ol 0,Ol 0,Ol 0,Ol

p.m. 4,500

p.m. The inflation 1993 budget is %

Source: of 29 October 1993 (93/c 331)

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