Understanding the EU Budget: Less of the Same Until 2020?
Date: 12 May 2016
Time: 09:00
Duration: 2 days
Location: European Institute of Public Administration, O.L. Vrouweplein 22, Maastricht (NL)
Cost: EIPA Members' fee: € 900
Organiser: European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) Maastricht
Web Link: http://seminars.eipa.eu/en/activities09/show/&tid=5870
Description:
This two-day seminar offers an explanatory overview of EU decision-making in the budgetary field; it concentrates on the annual budget cycle and the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 (MFF).
The seminar first sets out how the EU institutions prepare, adopt, execute and discharge an EU budget after the Lisbon Treaty. This is then followed by looking at the practices that have developed in budgetary procedures since 2010. After a detailed analysis of the revenue and expenditure sides of the budget and the MFF, the main changes in own resources and the MFF 2014-2020 are discussed.
Particular attention is given to two major spending areas, namely, agricultural and cohesion policy. Participants will be given a clear and concise explanation of the budgetary principles, procedures and the roles of the different actors involved, as well as an insight into the political dimensions of this process and the inter-institutional tensions which arise.
