08/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Commission is preparing, perhaps for 15 October, a "supplementary and amending budget" (SAB) on structural funds. Some 5.4 billion EUR in appropriation commitments planned for the 2003 budget to close programmes from the period 1994-1999 could be cancelled. However, it is partly just a postponement, as some of these credits will be needed next year to close the 1994-1999 programmes with even more delay, said a Community source. The European Commission had set...