Strasbourg, 04/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 4 July, the European Parliament approved, with some clarifications, the proposal for a new decision concerning the EU's own resources. The proposal, which is currently blocked at the Council level (EUROPE 9219), takes up the elements of the “receipts” chapter of the agreement on the financial perspectives 2007-2013, in particular on the reduction of the British rebate and the contributions of some Member Sates. The EP recalls that it would have preferred indepth reform of the own resources system rather than a new decision that only sets the status quo in stone, as Alain Lamassoure (EPP-Ed, France), Rapporteur on the dossier, put it. He is also very critical about a system in which 86% of the Union's receipts do not come from real Union own resources but from VAT and GNI (Gross National Income) resources. The main amendment voted in plenary calls for account to be taken in the full review of EU spending (to begin 2008-2009) of the results of the debate begun between the EP and the national parliaments on the future of the EU's own resources. According to Mr Lamassoure, this review will perhaps give a last chance to create the new system, a truly European one, that could become operational at the beginning of the period of application for the next financial framework from 2014.