This Working Document was first submitted to the European Parliament and the Council in 2017 for the Draft Budget 2018, following a joint statement agreed as part of the conciliation on the 2017 budget, where the Commission undertook to ‘regularly inform the budgetary authority on ongoing and pl...
Pilot projects (PPs) and preparatory actions (PAs) are an exception to the rule that “ [appropriations entered in the budget for any Union action shall only be used if a basic act has been adopted’ (Article 58.1 of the Financial Regulation (FR)), and are meant to pave the way for new EU spending...