<s>[INST] The next text is a question of a member of the European parliament:"After the approval of Draft Amending Budget No6/2012, the Commission, at the request of the Budgetary Authority, came forward with Draft Amending Budget No2/2013, amounting to EUR11.2billion, which will allow all legal payment obligations left pending at the end of 2012, as well as those arising before the end of 2013, to be covered in this year’s budget.  At the Ecofin meeting of 14May2013, a political agreement was reached to provide the extra funding for the 2013 budget in two tranches, with the first one amounting to EUR7.3billion while the ministers committed to come back on the issue later in the year. However, there has been no formal commitment on the remaining EUR3.9billion of Draft Amending Budget 2/2013.  After the political agreement of 27June2013 reached by the institutions on the 2014-2020 MFF, the Ecofin Council, on 9July2013, approved the EUR7.3billion top-up for the 2013 Budget and committed to take all necessary additional steps to ensure that the Union’s obligations for 2013 are fully honoured. In this respect, on the basis of a proposal to be made by the Commission in early autumn, based on the latest updated estimates regarding payment appropriations, the Council commits to decide, without delay, on a further draft amending budget to avoid any shortfall in justified payment appropriations.  Taking all the above into consideration and given the fact that the level of payments for the 2013 budget is EUR5billion lower than the Commission’s estimates for payment needs in its 2013 draft budget, could the Commission provide detailed information on the level of payments received by 31July2013? Specifically, could the Commission inform on the payments received in the months of January, February, March, April, May, June and July2013, broken down by Member State and policy area/programme?  Could the Commission also provide a comparison between the Member States’ payment forecasts and the actual payments that have taken place thus far in the year, in the framework of the 2013 budget, broken down by Member State and by policy area/programme?"
Analyze carefully the text and assign it to the most relevant policy area among those listed below. Do not explain your answer and return only a number.
Policy area numbers: 1 = Macroeconomics
2 = Civil Rights, Minority Issues and Civil Liberties
3 = Health
4 = Agriculture and Fisheries
5 = Labour, employment and pensions
6 = Education
7 = Environment
8 = Energy
9 = Immigration
10 = Transportation
12 = Law and Crime
13 = Social welfare
14 = Regional and Urban issues and Planning
15 = Banking, finance and domestic commerce issues
16 = Defence
17 = Space, science, technology, and communications issues
18 = Foreign trade
19 = International affairs and foreign aid
20 = Governance and government
21 = Public Lands, Water Management and Territorial Issues
23 = Culture and media
[/INST]. Answer = [1]. </s>
After the approval of Draft Amending Budget No6/2012, the Commission, at the request of the Budgetary Authority, came forward with Draft Amending Budget No2/2013, amounting to EUR11.2billion, which will allow all legal payment obligations left pending at the end of 2012, as well as those arising before the end of 2013, to be covered in this year’s budget.  At the Ecofin meeting of 14May2013, a political agreement was reached to provide the extra funding for the 2013 budget in two tranches, with the first one amounting to EUR7.3billion while the ministers committed to come back on the issue later in the year. However, there has been no formal commitment on the remaining EUR3.9billion of Draft Amending Budget 2/2013.  After the political agreement of 27June2013 reached by the institutions on the 2014-2020 MFF, the Ecofin Council, on 9July2013, approved the EUR7.3billion top-up for the 2013 Budget and committed to take all necessary additional steps to ensure that the Union’s obligations for 2013 are fully honoured. In this respect, on the basis of a proposal to be made by the Commission in early autumn, based on the latest updated estimates regarding payment appropriations, the Council commits to decide, without delay, on a further draft amending budget to avoid any shortfall in justified payment appropriations.  Taking all the above into consideration and given the fact that the level of payments for the 2013 budget is EUR5billion lower than the Commission’s estimates for payment needs in its 2013 draft budget, could the Commission provide detailed information on the level of payments received by 31July2013? Specifically, could the Commission inform on the payments received in the months of January, February, March, April, May, June and July2013, broken down by Member State and policy area/programme?  Could the Commission also provide a comparison between the Member States’ payment forecasts and the actual payments that have taken place thus far in the year, in the framework of the 2013 budget, broken down by Member State and by policy area/programme?