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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8419

13 March 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/budget/convention
EP wants to drop distinction between obligatory and non-obligatory expenditure- Ms Schreyer in favour

Strasbourg, 12/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - In the context of its work on Treaty revision, the European Parliament has asked for the distinction between obligatory expenditure and non-obligatory expenditure of Community budget to be dropped, to endorse the equality of both branches of the budget. This request, supported by Commissioner Michaela Schreyer, features in the report by British Socialist Terence Wynn, President of the Committee on Budgets, on possible ways to reform the budgetary...

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