budgetary implementation

3.2 FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK FOR 2000-2006: CUMULATIVE
IMPLEMENTATION BY THE END OF 2012
3.2.1 Implementation of the 2000-2006 allocation by the EU-15 Member
States
Member States’ progress in finalising the implementation of the 2000-2006 allocation can be
assessed by looking at total payments made so far as a share of the total allocation. Chart 12
below compares, for each EU-15 Member State, the cumulative payments at the end of 2011,
plus the new payments made in 2012, with the respective allocations (including all reserves)
for the full period 2000-2006. As for some Member States n+2 and first closure decommitments
have considerably reduced the allocation still to be executed, they have also
been included in the chart below.
Chart 12: Cumulative execution at the end of 2012 (cumulative payments at the end of 2011 + new
payments in 2012 + cumulative de-commitments) by EU-15 Member States (mainstream programmes and
Community Initiatives) compared to the initial national allocation available for the period 2000-06
(including reserves)
The financial allocation and all payments for the INTERREG and Peace programmes have been singled out in Chart 12 to
allow for comparisons by country. Those payments are often allocated in the accounts to the country that manages the
specific initiative independently of the ultimate beneficiary, which does not allow for a meaningful analysis of the execution
of the amounts made available to each country.
At the end of 2012, only 2.6% of the overall 2000-2006 allocation is still to be executed. As
finally no additional payment appropriations for closure were approved by the budgetary
authority in the Amending Budget No 6, global payment execution in 2012 was limited to
1.0% of the total allocation. Closure decommitments accounted for another 0.1% of the
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