EU budget timetable set

EU financing for 2007 to 2013 should be finally cleared by the European parliament at the start of April.

MEPs will vote on a package of expenditure proposals during a Strasbourg plenary session starting on the week of April 3.

The European commission will discuss proposals based on the December 17 2005 agreement between EU leader on February 1.

Detailed figures will not be set out until “two or three weeks later” while negotiations between the EU presidency, commission and MEPs continue.

New legislative proposals on an EU globalisation fund will be unveiled at the end of February.

Early March will bring the detail of the future of the UK’s shrinking annual rebate from EU contributions.

Detailed legislative work on EU expenditure programmes will emerge in April – after the final detailed figures are fixed.

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