It's offset, to a large degree, by a decrease of $648.6 million in the department's capital expenditures budget and a decrease of $50 million in our grants and contributions budget.

Rejects the cuts introduced by the Council on Heading 1b, which would lead to a much more serious shortage in payments than already expected and would impede the reimbursement for already spent resources to the beneficiary Member States and regions, with serious consequences especially for those Member States which are already under social, economical and financial constraints; points out again that this heading is responsible for two thirds of the current outstanding commitments and that cutting the level of payments for 2013 would also lead to a strong increase in the level of RAL by the end of next year; asks therefore the Commission to present an analysis on the situation of RAL and a sound strategy as to how the level of RAL should b ...[+++]e reduced; calls on the Commission to provide Parliament with information on a monthly basis on the breakdown per Member State and per Fund of the claims submitted for reimbursement;

- ICT RD increase: Double public investment to €11 billion (Baseline: ICT government budget appropriations or outlays on RD (ICT GBAORD) was 5,7 billion nominal euros in 2007).

Amounts relating to all new or renewable agreements which come into force after 1 January of the year in question will be assigned to heading 40 02 41 02 — Reserves/Differentiated appropriations (compulsory expenditure).

Amounts relating to all new or renewable agreements which will come into force after 1 January of the year in question will be assigned to heading 31 02 04 02 - Reserves/Differenciated appropriations (compulsory expenditure).

Another important reason lies in the ERDF's decentralised structure : much of its funding is spent via national or regional authorities and the details become available only after a certain lapse of time.