General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2000.

Abstract

General presentationThe 2000 budget was declared adopted after Parliament's second reading on l6 December 1999.It is the first budget established under the financial perspective for 2000 - 2006 contained in theInterinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 and totals EUR 93 280,405 million in appropriations forcommitments, 3.5 Vo down on 1999, and EUR89 386,951million in appropriations for payments, a4.4Vo increase. The total appropriations for payments are equivalent to l.llVo of GNP.This budget manages to comply with the tight spending targets set by the Commission in its originalproposals and by the two arms of the budgetary authority throughout the budgetary procedure, while atthe same time covering the Union's priorities for 2000, in particular reconstruction in Kosovo.