6. Underlines the fact that the tight 2014-2020 ceilings in payments remain a crucial problem for the EU budget, having negative effects on economic recovery given that late payments are harmful primarily to direct beneficiaries; recalls the need to ensure, in the light of implementation, the timely, and orderly progression of payments so as to concomitantly deliver on both the payments stemming from past commitments and those resulting from prefinancing to promptly launch the new programmes, and to avoid any abnormal shift of outstanding commitments (RALs) onto the 2015 budget; urges, in this connection, the Council to adopt in full d ...[+++]raft amending budget Nos 3/2014, as submitted by the Commission, in order for the EU budget to have maximum impact in terms of investment on the ground; points out that if draft amending budgets Nos 2, 3 and 4 are adopted unamended, this would result in an overall budgetary impact of just EUR 106 million in additional gross national income (GNI) contributions, which have to be made available by the Member States in order to ensure a sufficient level of payment appropriations in 2014 to cover the Union’s existing legal obligations; highlights its determination to continue monitoring the overall situation as regards payments and RALs and to make full use of all means of flexibility enshrined in the MFF regulation and the related interinstitutional agreement; underlines the fact that the question of the recurrent EU budget payment crisis will have to be addressed in a sustainable manner at the occasion of the post-electoral revision of the MFF 2014-2020, due to be launched as soon as possible by the next Commission, which is to assume office on 1 November 2014;

122. Underlines the fact that the tight 2014-2020 ceilings in payments remain a crucial problem for the EU budget, having negative effects on economic recovery given that late payments are harmful primarily to direct beneficiaries; recalls the need to ensure, in the light of implementation, the timely, and orderly progression of payments so as to concomitantly deliver on both the payments stemming from past commitments and those resulting from prefinancing to promptly launch the new programmes, and to avoid any abnormal shift of outstanding commitments (RALs) onto the 2015 budget; urges, in this connection, the Council to adopt in full ...[+++] draft amending budget Nos 3/2014, as submitted by the Commission, in order for the EU budget to have maximum impact in terms of investment on the ground; points out that if draft amending budgets Nos 2, 3 and 4 are adopted unamended, this would result in an overall budgetary impact of just EUR 106 million in additional gross national income (GNI) contributions, which have to be made available by the Member States in order to ensure a sufficient level of payment appropriations in 2014 to cover the Union’s existing legal obligations; highlights its determination to continue monitoring the overall situation as regards payments and RALs and to make full use of all means of flexibility enshrined in the MFF regulation and the related interinstitutional agreement; underlines the fact that the question of the recurrent EU budget payment crisis will have to be addressed in a sustainable manner at the occasion of the post-electoral revision of the MFF 2014-2020, due to be launched as soon as possible by the next Commission, which is to assume office on 1 November 2014;

14. Recalls that the overall level of payment appropriations agreed for the 2014 budget remains below the level considered necessary and proposed by the Commission in its original draft budget; notes that, as provided for in the new MFF Regulation and the new global margin for payments, the Commission should adjust the payment ceiling for the year 2015 upwards by the amount equivalent to the difference between the executed 2014 payments and the MFF payment ceiling for 2014; is deeply concerned that the unprecedented level of outstan ...[+++]ding bills at the end of 2013, amounting to EUR 23,4 billion under Heading 1b alone, cannot be covered within the 2014 ceilings; calls for the mobilisation of the appropriate flexibility mechanisms for payments in 2014 and stresses that even this is not expected to be sufficient to avoid a large implementation deficit at the end of 2014; underlines the fact that the recurrent shortages in payment appropriations have been the main cause of the unprecedentedly high level of outstanding commitments (RALs), especially in the last few years;

15. Recalls that the overall level of payment appropriations agreed for the 2014 budget remains below the level considered necessary and proposed by the Commission in its original draft budget; notes that, as provided for in the new MFF Regulation and the new global margin for payments, the Commission should adjust the payment ceiling for the year 2015 upwards by the amount equivalent to the difference between the executed 2014 payments and the MFF payment ceiling for 2014; is deeply concerned that the unprecedented level of outstan ...[+++]ding bills at the end of 2013, amounting to EUR 23.4 billion under Heading 1b alone, cannot be covered within the 2014 ceilings; calls for the mobilisation of the appropriate flexibility mechanisms for payments in 2014 and stresses that even this is not expected to be sufficient to avoid a large implementation deficit at the end of 2014; underlines the fact that the recurrent shortages in payment appropriations have been the main cause of the unprecedentedly high level of outstanding commitments (RALs), especially in the last few years;

Each of these provinces receive different per capita and total amounts because they are all at different levels and therefore need differing amounts to raise them to the standard, but they are all raised to the same level.

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