Documents

• The mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund (Hungary and Greece);
• The modification of the structure of the Budget 2007 for Research.

It covers the following points:

• The revision of the forecast of traditional own resources, VAT and GNI bases and the budgeting of the relevant UK corrections;
• The repayment of the surplus from the Guarantee Fund for external measures;
• The impact of changes in the Financial Regulation on the revenue side.

Covers the following points:

• EU Solidarity Fund (Germany and France).
• Financial obligations stemming from the accession to the World Customs Organisation.
• Damages to applicants following the Court of First Instance final judgements.
• Creation of article "Damage requests resulting from legal procedures".
• Civil Protection Financial Instrument (2007-2013) and Financial Instrument for the Environment (LIFE+).

Takes into account of the following developments:

• the need to budget a substantial increase in the forecast of revenue, in particular for the revision of the forecasts of VAT and GNI balances (EUR 3 233,4 million);
• the need for a decrease of payment appropriations in budget lines for headings 1a, 1b, 2 and 3a (EUR 1 251,4 million), after taking into account the redeployments proposed in the global transfer.

The Commission publishes a budgetary implementation report every month, which is transmitted to the budgetary authority (Council of the European Union and European Parliament) and to the Court of Auditors.

This report describes the evolution of budgetary credits. It includes information amassed at the level of Financial Perspectives, summarizing the data concerning commitment appropriations and payment appropriations.

Budgetary implementation also forms part of the annual financial statement that the Commission must present for control to the Parliament and the Court of Auditors.

Director Generals and Heads of service present an annual activity report to their Commissioners for consideration each year.

A summary report is presented to the Commission each June and lists suggested management improvements.