Mr. Günther Oettinger:

The main rebate is the British rebate. It was an agreement between the then Prime Minister Thatcher and the Council and the European Parliament and we have a system of rebates related to the British rebate. Our position is that with the UK leaving, these rebates cannot survive. We are bringing our next MFF without rebates, only with resources coming from member states related to gross national income, GNI, and with some new and other resources without rebate. Nobody knows what the outcome will be afterwards because it is about unanimity. I cannot exclude at the end of the day ending up with no rebate. In general, maybe we need some of them. Member states which are quite critical net payers include the Netherlands, Sweden or Denmark. It is a question of the negotiations but our starting point is that there will be no rebate.