15/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - As expected, on 15 May, the General Affairs Council endorsed a provisional agreement reached on 4 April with representatives of the European Parliament on the EU's budgetary framework for the 2007-2013 period, together with a number of provisions on budgetary discipline and improvement of the EU's annual budgetary procedure (see our detailed report in EUROPE 9168). The European Parliament is due to express its opinion at the plenary session in Strasbourg on 17...