Legal provisions of COM(2018)322 - Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 - Main contents
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dossier | COM(2018)322 - Multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027. |
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document | COM(2018)322 |
date | May 3, 2018 |
Chapter 1
General provisions
Contents
- Article 1 - Multiannual Financial Framework
- Article 2 - Compliance with the ceilings of the MFF
- Article 3 - Respect of own resources ceiling
- Article 4 - Global margin for payments
- Article 5 - Technical adjustments
- Article 6 - Adjustment of cohesion policy envelopes
- Article 7
- Article 8 - Adjustment following new rules or programmes under shared management
- Article 9 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
- Article 10 - European Union Solidarity Fund
- Article 11 - Emergency Aid Reserve
- Article 12 - Global Margin for Commitments (Union Reserve)
- Article 13 - Flexibility Instrument
- Article 14 - Contingency Margin
- Article 15 - Revision of the MFF
- Article 16 - Mid-term review of the MFF
- Article 17 - Revision related to implementation
- Article 18 - Revision of the MFF in case of a revision of the Treaties
- Article 19 - Revision of the MFF in the event of enlargement of the Union
- Article 20 - Revision of the MFF in the event of the reunification of Cyprus
- Article 21 - Contribution to the financing of large scale projects
- Article 22 - Interinstitutional cooperation in the budgetary procedure
- Article 23 - Unity of the budget
- Article 24 - Transition towards the next multiannual financial framework
- Article 25 - Entry into force
Article 1 - Multiannual Financial Framework
Article 2 - Compliance with the ceilings of the MFF
The sub-ceiling for Heading III as set out in the Annex is established without prejudice to the flexibility between the two pillars of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The adjusted ceiling to be applied to pillar I of the CAP following the transfers between the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and direct payments shall be laid down in the relevant legal act and the MFF shall be adjusted accordingly under the technical adjustment provided for in Article 5 of this Regulation.
2. Where it is necessary to use the resources from the special instruments provided for in Articles 9 to 14, commitment and corresponding payment appropriations shall be entered in the budget over and above the relevant MFF ceilings.
3. Where it is necessary to mobilise a guarantee for financial assistance to Member States authorised in accordance with Article 208(1)] of Regulation No EU [xxx/201x] ('the Financial Regulation'), the necessary amount shall be mobilised over and above the ceilings laid down in the MFF.
Article 3 - Respect of own resources ceiling
5. Where necessary, the ceilings set in the MFF shall be lowered in order to ensure compliance with the own resources ceiling set in accordance with the Own Resources Decision in force.
Chapter 2
Adjustments to the MFF
Article 4 - Global margin for payments
2. Any upward adjustment shall be fully offset by a corresponding reduction of the payment ceiling for year n-1.
Article 5 - Technical adjustments
(a)revaluation, at year n+1 prices, of the ceilings and of the overall figures for appropriations for commitments and appropriations for payments;
(b)calculation of the margin available under the own resources ceiling set in accordance with the Own Resources Decision in force;
(c)calculation of the global margin for payments provided for in Article 4;
(d)calculation of the global margin for commitments (Union reserve) provided for in Article 12;
(e)calculation of the amounts to be made available to the Flexibility Instrument under the second subparagraph of Article 13(1);
(f)calculation of the absolute amount of the Contingency Margin provided for in Article 14.
2. The technical adjustments referred to in paragraph 1 shall be made on the basis of a fixed deflator of 2 % per year.
3. The Commission shall communicate the results of the technical adjustments referred to in paragraph 1 and the underlying economic forecasts to the European Parliament and the Council.
4. Without prejudice to Article 6, 7 and 8, no further technical adjustments shall be made in respect of the year concerned, either during the year or as ex post corrections during subsequent years.
Article 6 - Adjustment of cohesion policy envelopes
2. The adjustments required shall be spread in equal proportions over the years 2025 to 2027 and the corresponding ceilings of the MFF shall be adjusted accordingly. The payment ceilings shall also be adjusted accordingly to ensure an orderly progression in relation to the appropriations for commitments.
3. The total net effect, whether positive or negative, of the adjustments referred to in paragraph 2 shall not exceed EUR 4 billion.
Article 7
In the case of the lifting, in accordance with the relevant basic acts, of a suspension of budgetary commitments concerning Union funds in the context of measures linked to sound economic governance or to the protection of the Union’s budget in the case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the Member States, the amounts corresponding to the suspended commitments shall be transferred to the following years and the corresponding ceilings of the MFF shall be adjusted accordingly.
Suspended commitments of year n may not be entered in the budget beyond year n+2.
Article 8 - Adjustment following new rules or programmes under shared management
Chapter 3
Special instruments
Article 9 - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
2. The appropriations for the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund shall be entered in the general budget of the Union as a provision.
Article 10 - European Union Solidarity Fund
2. In exceptional cases and if the remaining financial resources available in the European Union Solidarity Fund in the year of occurrence of the disaster are not sufficient to cover the amount of assistance considered necessary, the Commission may propose that the difference be financed through the annual amounts available for the following year.
Article 11 - Emergency Aid Reserve
2. The annual amount of the Reserve is fixed at EUR 600 million (2018 prices) and may be used up to year n+1 in accordance with the Financial Regulation. The Reserve shall be entered in the general budget of the Union as a provision. The portion of the annual amount stemming from the previous year shall be drawn on first. That portion of the annual amount from year n which is not used in year n+1 shall lapse.
By 1 October of each year, at least one quarter of the annual amount for year n shall remain available to cover needs arising until the end of that year.
No more than half of the amount available until 30 September each year may be mobilised for, respectively, internal or external operations.
As of 1 October, the remaining part of the amount available may be mobilised either for internal or external operations to cover needs arising until the end of that year.
Article 12 - Global Margin for Commitments (Union Reserve)
(a)margins left available below the MFF ceilings for commitments of year n-1;
(b)as of 2023, in addition to the margins referred to in point (a), an amount equivalent to de-commitments of appropriations made during year n-2, without prejudice to Article 15] of the Financial Regulation.
2. The Global Margin for Commitments (Union Reserve) or part thereof may be mobilised by the European Parliament and the Council in the framework of the budgetary procedure provided for in Article 314 TFEU.
Article 13 - Flexibility Instrument
Each year the annual amount available for the Flexibility Instrument shall be increased by the following amounts:
(a)an amount equivalent to the portion of the annual amount for the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund which has lapsed in the previous year;
(b)an amount equivalent to the portion of the annual amount for the European Union Solidarity Fund which has lapsed in the previous year in accordance with Article 10(1);
(c)an amount equivalent to the portion of the annual amount for the Emergency Aid Reserve which has lapsed in the previous year in accordance with Article 11(2).
Amounts made available to the Flexibility Instrument in accordance with the second subparagraph shall be used in accordance with the conditions set out in this Article.
3. The unused portion of the annual amount of the Flexibility Instrument may be used up to year n+3. The portion of the annual amount stemming from previous years shall be used first, in order of age. That portion of the annual amount from year n which is not used in year n+3 shall lapse.
Article 14 - Contingency Margin
2. Recourse to the Contingency Margin shall not exceed, at any given year, the maximum amount provided in the annual technical adjustment of the MFF, and shall be consistent with the own resources ceiling.
3. Amounts made available through the mobilisation of the Contingency Margin shall be fully offset against the margins in one or more MFF headings for the current or future financial years.
4. The amounts offset in accordance with paragraph 3 shall not be further mobilised in the context of the MFF. Recourse to the Contingency Margin shall not result in exceeding the total ceilings of commitment and payment appropriations laid down in the MFF for the current and future financial years.
Chapter 4
Review and Revision of the MFF
Article 15 - Revision of the MFF
2. As a general rule, any proposal for a revision of the MFF in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be presented and adopted before the start of the budgetary procedure for the year or the first of the years concerned.
3. Any proposal for revision of the MFF in accordance with paragraph 1 shall examine the scope for reallocating expenditure between the programmes covered by the heading concerned by the revision, with particular reference to any expected under-utilisation of appropriations.
4. Any revision of the MFF in accordance with paragraph 1 shall take into account the scope for offsetting any raising of the ceiling for one heading by the lowering of the ceiling for another heading.
5. Any revision of the MFF in accordance with paragraph 1 shall maintain an appropriate relationship between commitments and payments.
Article 16 - Mid-term review of the MFF
Article 17 - Revision related to implementation
Article 18 - Revision of the MFF in case of a revision of the Treaties
Article 19 - Revision of the MFF in the event of enlargement of the Union
Article 20 - Revision of the MFF in the event of the reunification of Cyprus
Chapter 5
Contribution to the financing of large scale projects
Article 21 - Contribution to the financing of large scale projects
2. A maximum amount of EUR 5 406 million (in 2018 prices) shall be available for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER) from the general budget of the Union for the period 2021 to 2027.
Chapter 6
Interinstitutional cooperation in the budgetary procedure
Article 22 - Interinstitutional cooperation in the budgetary procedure
The institutions shall cooperate in good faith throughout the procedure with a view to reconciling their positions. The institutions shall, at all stages of the procedure, cooperate through appropriate interinstitutional contacts in order to monitor the progress of the work and analyse the degree of convergence.
The institutions shall ensure that their respective calendars of work are coordinated as far as possible, in order to enable proceedings to be conducted in a coherent and convergent fashion, leading to the final adoption of the general budget of the Union.
Trilogues may be held at all stages of the procedure and at different levels of representation, depending on the nature of the expected discussions. Each institution, in accordance with its own rules of procedure, shall designate its participants for each meeting, define its mandate for the negotiations and inform the other institutions in good time of the arrangements for the meetings.
Article 23 - Unity of the budget
Chapter 7
Final provisions
Article 24 - Transition towards the next multiannual financial framework
Article 25 - Entry into force
It shall apply from 1 January 2021.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.