Hr. formand, Kommissionen fremlagde i slutningen af april 1998 udkast til tillægs- og ændringsbudget for 1998, og Rådet og Europa-Parlamentet aftalte under budgetforhandlingerne for 1998, at vi - Rådet og Parlamentet - i tilfælde af, at Kommissionen konstaterer, at betalingsbevillingerne i budgetåret 1998 ikke er tilstrækkelige, velvilligt vil revidere et tillægsbudget for 1998.
Mr President, at the end of April 1998, the Commission submitted the draft supplementary and amending budget for 1998. The Council and the European Parliament agreed during the 1998 budgetary procedure that if the Commission discovered that the payment appropriations were not sufficient for the 1998 financial year, then we - both Council and Parliament - would give favourable consideration to a supplementary budget for 1998.