Select Committee on European Union Minutes of Evidence


Annex I

  Net Contributions Post Abatement as a Percentage of GNI (data source—Commission report "Allocation of 2005 EU expenditure by member state")

  Figures requested at HM Treasury evidence session 16 January 2007.
Net ContributionPost-Abatement
Austria-0.15 %
Belgium0.47 %
Cyprus0.50 %
Czech Rep0.09 %
Denmark-0.21 %
Estonia1.49 %
Finland-0.07 %
France-0.19 %
Germany-0.35 %
Greece2.13 %
Hungary0.64 %
Ireland0.77 %
Italy-0.20 %
Latvia2.02 %
Lithuania2.26 %
Luxembourg3.58 %
Malta1.94 %
Netherlands-0.76 %
Poland0.73 %
Portugal1.63 %
Slovakia0.68 %
Slovenia0.34 %
Spain0.60 %
Sweden-0.38 %
UK-0.19 %


  Figures present the "accounting definition" net contribution. This is the sum of TOR, VAT-based and GNI-based contributions and the UK abatement, and the adjustment to the financing share of the cost of this for Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden—each of which are restricted to 25 per cent of their normal share—less receipts.


 
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