§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the amount set aside in the budget for the common agricultural policy each year since 1972 and the amount actually spent; and what is the forecast for the current year.
§ Mr. Jopling[pursuant to his reply, 6 May 1986]: The following table shows the amounts entered for expenditure under the common agricultural policy in the original budget for each year since 1972 and the amount actually spent each year, other than 1985 for which the final figure is not yet available. The budget adopted by the European Parliament for 1986 provides 22,009 mecu for expenditure under the CAP but the Commission has announced its intention of proposing a supplementary budget to provide a further 1,015 mecu for CAP expenditure.
Original budget (excluding supplementary budgets) Outturn mua mua 1973 3,263 3,786 1974 3,839 3,228 1975 4,306 4,914 1976 5,490 5,793 1977 6,581 6,964 mecu mecu 1978 9,131 9,000 1979 10,022 10,880 1980 11,878 11,943 1981 13,401 11,581 1982 14,533 13,077 1983 14,786 16,637 1984 17,288 19,092 1985 20,755 n.a. Sources: EC Budgets, EAGGF Financial Reports.
EC Court of Auditors Reports.
Note: Before 1978, Community expenditure was expressed in units of account. As this unit had a different basis from the present ECU the figures for 1973 to 1977 are not directly comparable with those for later years.