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Distributional effects of the EC budget

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The continuing dispute concerning the distribution of EC budgetary contributions among the member states, felt to be unjust particularly by Britaln, has been marring the Community's public image for some time now. How is this distribution effected and what possibilities are there for readjustment?

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  1. Cf. the Council Decision of 21 April 1970 on the Replacement of Financial Contributions from member States by the Community's “Own Resources”, in: Official Journal of the EC, Series L 94 of 28 April 1970.

  2. Cf. General Budget Plan for the European Communities for the Financial Year 1982, in: Official Journal of the EC, Series L 31 of 8 February 1982.

  3. A more detailed analysis can be found in Angela Nottelmann: Der Haushalt der EG-Probleme und Reformvorstellungen (The Budget of the European Community—Problems and Possible Reforms), Hamburg 1982, part I

  4. Cf. West German Federal Ministry of Finance: Der Haushalt der Europäischen Gemeinschaften 1982 (The Budget of the European Communities 1982), in: BMF Dokumentation, 1982, No. 1, February 8, 1982.

  5. Regulation (EEC) No. 1172/76 by the Council of 17 May 1976 on the Creation of a Financial Mechanism.

  6. Cf. ibid. Regulation (EEC) No. 1172/76 by the Council of 17 May 1976 on the Creation of a Financial Mechanism.

  7. Cf. Commission of the European Communities: Report on the Application of the Financial Mechanism, COM (81) 704 fin., Brussels, November 13, 1979.

  8. Cf. Geoffrey Denton: How to Prevent the EC Budget Reinforcing Divergence: A British View, in: Michael Hodges, William Wallace (ed.): Economic Divergence in the European Community, London 1981, p. 95.

  9. Cf. Commission of the European Communities: Convergence and Budgetary Questions, COM (1979) 620 fin., Brussels, October 31, 1979.

  10. Cf. Geoffrey Denton, op. cit., How to Prevent the EC Budget Reinforcing Divergence: A British View, in: Michael Hodges, William Wallace (ed.): Economic Divergence in the European Community, London 1981, p. 95 f.

  11. Conclusions of the Council from the Meeting of May 30, 1980, with regard to the British contribution to financing the Community budget plan, in: Official Journal of the EC, Series C 158 of June 27, 1980.

  12. Cf. Commission Report on the Mandate of May 30, 1980, in: Bulletin of the European Communites, Vol. 14 (1981), Supplement No. 1.

  13. Ibid. Cf. Commission Report on the Mandate of May 30, 1980, in: Bulletin of the European Communites, Vol. 14 (1981), Supplement No. 1.

  14. Cf. This plan is so complicated that it just might work, in: The Economist, March 27, 1982, p. 55 f.

  15. Cf. on this point, Angela Nottelmann, op. cit. Der Haushalt der EG—Probleme und Reformvorstellungen (The Budget of the European Community—Problems and Possible Reforms), Hamburg 1982, part II.

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Nottelmann, A. Distributional effects of the EC budget. Intereconomics 17, 107–112 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02927879

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