Traduction de «Preparing a Realistic Budget » (Anglais → Français) :

15. Intends to launch a substantial debate on the revenue side in the annual budget procedure, as it is an integral part of the Union budget and should not be dissociated from the expenditure side; questions, in this respect, the justification for Member States to retain 25 % of traditional own resources as administrative costs and calls for a more careful scrutiny of the use of this amount; calls for a more realistic budgeting of the ex ...[+++]pected revenue from fines imposed by the Commission on companies in breach of Union competition law and for further discussion on the budgeting of the surplus in the budget in order to avoid a complex procedure, incomprehensible to the outside world, which currently consists of returning it to Member States via a reduction of their respective GNI-contribution;

15. Intends to launch a substantial debate on the revenue side in the annual budget procedure, as it is an integral part of the Union budget and should not be dissociated from the expenditure side; questions, in this respect, the justification for Member States to retain 25 % of traditional own resources as administrative costs and calls for a more careful scrutiny of the use of this amount; calls for a more realistic budgeting of the ex ...[+++]pected revenue from fines imposed by the Commission on companies in breach of Union competition law and for further discussion on the budgeting of the surplus in the budget in order to avoid a complex procedure, incomprehensible to the outside world, which currently consists of returning it to Member States via a reduction of their respective GNI-contribution;

8. Views the proposed increase of 6,8 % in PA compared to 2012 as an initial response to Parliament's call for responsible and realistic budgeting; notes that the increases in payments are concentrated in the areas of competitiveness and cohesion, owing to a greater level of claims expected by running projects in these fields; fully endorses this increase, which is the result not only of past commitments that need to be honoured but also of the actual implementation of programmes, which is expected to reach cruising speed by the last year of the current MFF; calls on the Commission to verify with the Member States ...[+++] that their estimated demands for payment increases are accurate and realistic;

7. Views the proposed increase of 6.8 % in PA compared to 2012 as an initial response to Parliament's call for responsible and realistic budgeting; notes that the increases in payments are concentrated in the areas of competitiveness and cohesion, owing to a greater level of claims expected by running projects in these fields; fully endorses this increase, which is the result not only of past commitments that need to be honoured but also of the actual implementation of programmes, which is expected to reach cruising speed by the last year of the current MFF; calls on the Commission to verify with the Member States ...[+++] that their estimated demands for payment increases are accurate and realistic;

10. Recalls that already in 2011, a significant number of legitimate claims, notably in the field of cohesion policy, could not be paid out by the Commission; notes that those claims will also need to be covered by the 2012 budget, which is already suffering from a shortage of funds as a consequence of the limited increase in payment appropriations due to the Council's position throughout last year's budgetary procedure; calls, therefore, on the Commission to come up with a draft amending budget as early as possible in order to rectify this situation, and to avoid shifting 2012 payments to the following year, since this would create an ...[+++] unsustainable level of payments in 2013; further calls on the Commission and the Council to work constructively, together with Parliament, to avoid repetition of this situation in future budget cycles by improving forecasting accuracy and agreeing on realistic budget estimates;

* a detailed work programme accompanied by a realistic budget, both broken down by national and transnational activities/costs.