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Civil Society Contact Group contribution to the EU budget review consultation

The Civil Society Contact Group on April 3 submitted its contribution to the EU budget review consultation. The Civil Society Contact Group contribution consists of a list of fundamental principles that the EU budget needs to respect:

The EU budget must respect and promote the values and rights as outlined in the Lisbon Treaty and contribute to achieving the Treaty aims and objectives
EU money is public money and it must serve the European public interest
EU funds must respect the principle of solidarity
Sustainable development must be the overarching goal of a new EU budget
Public budgeting and spending must be a transparent and accountable process
The process of public budgeting needs to allow for meaningful participation from public interest organisations
EU funds must be allocated in a way that reflects the EUï¿½s policy priorities and that supports coherence within and between policies
There must be an immediate end to all perverse subsidies
EU spending should be subject to regular evaluation

The consultation is still running until April 15^th. So there is time for all those of you who havenï¿½t contributed yet, to still do so. You are welcome to use the Civil Society Contact Group contributions in the following ways:

If your organisation has an own contributionyou can add the CSCG contribution as an annex to your organisations own contribution
you can refer to it in your organisations own contribution
you can include parts of it in your own contribution

If your organisation doesnï¿½t submit its own contribution

you are welcome to write a letter supporting the Civil Society Contact Group contribution.

The Civil Society Contact Group has also send a letter to Commissioner Grybauskaitï¿½ underlining the importance of a transparent and balanced process after the consultation and asking for the involvement of NGOs in the planned conference. The Commission plans to organise a conference on the results of the consultation. It was foreseen for May 27^th but is likely to be moved to the second half of 2008. The next Commission document taking into account the consultation is expected for early 2009.

Find the Civil Society Contact Group contribution here .

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