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DAB No 1/2016 deals with two different European Commission proposals: the provision of the initial financial means for the new instrument aimed at delivering emergency support inside the European Union (EU); and an increase in the staffing of the recently created European Counter-Terrorism Centre within Europol. The European Parliament has fast-tracked its examination of the proposals, while the Council also rapidly adopted its own position on the DAB.

The paper is prepared by the Economic Governance Support Unit in advance of the Economic Dialogue with the Commission on 15 December 2015. Vice-president Dombrovskis and Commissioner Moscovici have been invited to an Economic Dialogue on the European Commission opinions on the 2016 Draft Budgetary Plans of the Euro Area Member States based on Articles 7 and 15 of EU Regulation 473/2013.

The debate on the way to further enhance the economic governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will remain on top of the European policy agenda in the foreseeable future. This note gives a short description of the state-of-play and possible developments of various governance instruments of EMU. This note is an update on an earlier version published on 22 June 2015.

This note gives an overview of the opinions by the European Commission on the 2016 Draft Budgetary Plans as submitted by Euro Area Member States to the European Commission and the Eurogroup during the autumn budgetary surveillance cycle of national budgetary policies.

This study subjects the EU budget to a gender budgeting analysis revealing revenue and spending decisions’ impacts on gender equality. It covers the operational expenditure of six selected policy areas, in an attempt to pave the way for further, more comprehensive analysis. The authors adopt the capability approach, based on a broad definition of human wellbeing, following bottom-up logic. The analysis leads to the following conclusions: • Many titles of the EU budget do not follow the EU’s high ...

This study examines the budget structure and cost allocation, fee determination as well as treatment of surpluses/deficits and potential financial reserves of the partially selffinanced EU agencies (i.e. the agencies which carry out public tasks for the EU and provide services to clients from industry and are not co-financed by national public authorities), namely the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The study identifies ...

Il presente studio è il terzo documento di lavoro redatto del dipartamento tematico B sulla riforma della Politica Agricola Comune. Scopo del documento è fornire un’analisi della comunicazione della Commissione su un “Bilancio per l'Europa 2020”, con l’obiettivo di agevolare il lavoro legislativo dei deputati al Parlamento europeo in merito alla prossima riforma della PAC. Dopo una descrizione dell’evoluzione storica del bilancio e della spesa dell'Unione europea per la Politica agricola comune, ...

We are at the eve of a possible review of the EU budget and, at the same time, of a key CAP reform. The two issues are tightly connected and influencing each other and the outcomes will be mainly determined by the timing of the reforms. In this study we present some alternative scenarios that keep together different hypotheses of EU budget review and CAP reform, looking at how the net balances of Member States change accordingly. The instrument of the net balance is key in understanding the costs ...

This note examines the available political and scientific evidence that can shed some light on the likely post-2013 CAP budget. Substantial uncertainties exist with regard to funding availability, funding needs, and the relationship of the CAP with other policies. If the CAP moves boldly towards promoting European public goods, one can expect that a significantly smaller budget will be sufficient and that competition from other policy areas for EU funding will not constrain the future CAP during ...

The study describes the various estimates made of the annual global cost of tackling climate change, ranging from €230 to €614 billion. The EU's share in this ranges from €24 to €194 billion. The study then analyses the resources devoted to climate change in the EU budget and includes suggestions for rectifying shortcomings identified. Overall, although it is difficult to put a precise figure on the amount that should be included in the EU budget, current spending appears rather modest and could ...