European Union - Thirty-Third Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 14 July 2003.
CONTENTS
PART 1: executive summary
PART 2: background
Introduction: what is the purpose of this
report?
Why examine the preliminary draft budget?
2004 is a significant year for the EC budget
Putting the annual budget in context
The over-arching legal framework
The financial perspective
The own resources decision
The financial regulation
Individual spending programmes
The annual budgetary process
A brief overview of the process
The Council's second reading
The European Parliament's second reading
and the adoption of the budget
The position of the committee
PART 3: The 2004 EC Budget
The Government's priorities for the 2004
budget
External actions (category 4)
Administration (category 5)
Other spending categories
Agriculture (category 1)
Structural operations (category 2)
Pre-accession strategy (category 6)
PART 4: Proposals for reform of the budget
process
Proposed changes to budget expenditure
PART 5: Summary of Conclusions
Scrutiny of the annual EC budget
Activity-based budgeting
The 2004 budget
The Government's priorities for the 2004
budget
External action (category 4)
Administration (category 5)
Other categories of expenditure
Agriculture (Category 1)
Structural operations (Category 2)
Pre-accession strategy (Category 6)
Proposals for reform of the budget process
Recommendation
Appendix 1: Membership of the Sub-Committee
and Declaration of Interests
Table 1: Budget 2003 and PDB 2004 (EU-25) - Appropriations
for payments
Table 2: Budget 2003 and PDB 2004 (EU-25)
- Appropriations for commitments
ORAL EVIDENCE
Wednesday 11 June 2003
The Rt Hon Dawn Primarolo MP, Paymaster General,
HM Treasury
Mr Geoff Lloyd, Head of EU Finances, HM Treasury
Mr Stephen Evans, Policy Adviser, European Finances,
HM Treasury
Mr Andrew Olive, Policy Adviser, European Finances,
HM Treasury
Explanatory Memorandum 1
Oral Evidence, 11 June 2003 14
Supplementary Written Evidence 23
NOTE: Pages of the report are numbered in bold
type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References
in the text of the report are as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence.
A short glossary of the key terms can be found in
Annex 2 of the Explanatory Memorandum by HM Treasury (pp 13-14)
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