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"In favour. Concerning the volume of the budget proposal (+2% in commitments to a level of EUR 151 billion, + 6.8 % in payments to a level of EUR 138 billion) we believe that the proposed level of payments is necessary in order to pay for a large amount of outstanding commitments from previous years, especially for structural funds reimbursements to Member States.
These outstanding commitments – EUR 168 billion alone for structural funds – are due to the fact that the current structural funds programmes could only be launched with a delay resulting in under-execution of the EU budget and cumulated returns to Member States of EUR 11 billion during the last years.
The budget increase may look huge but this is in fact misleading, as the payments level are necessary to cover outstanding commitments from previous years. The proposed increase is even EUR 14 billion below estimated needs for reimbursements calculated by Member States’ administrations.
The commitments level is an indicator for new EU action and its level is clearly below inflation. So in fact, this budget amounts to a freeze compared to 2011. The proposed payments level will probably lead to certain delays in reimbursements to Member States."@en1
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