Article 20

United Kingdom

The authorising officer shall authorise the accounting officer, by the issue of a payment order (‘authorisation’), to pay an item of expenditure which has been validated.

The authorisation shall state:

(a)

the financial year against which the payment shall be charged;

(b)

the budget title, chapter and article;

(c)

the amount to be paid, in figures and in words, and the currency of payment;

(d)

the name and address of the creditor;

(e)

the purpose of the expenditure;

(f)

the method of paymentF1.

(F2(g))

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The payment order shall be dated and signed by the authorising officer.

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Any expenditure must be covered beforehand by contributions from the States referred to in Article 25 or, failing those, by a bank loan. The costs of a pre-financing loan in the event of non-payment of contributions shall be divided among the States in default, pro rata to their unpaid contributions and taking into account the length of arrears.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Substituted by Council Decision of 24 July 2008 amending Council Decision 2000/265/EC on the establishment of a financial regulation governing the budgetary aspects of the management by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Council, of contracts concluded in his name, on behalf of certain Member States, relating to the installation and the functioning of the communication infrastructure for the Schengen environment, ‘Sisnet’ (2008/670/JHA).
F2: Deleted by Council Decision of 24 July 2008 amending Council Decision 2000/265/EC on the establishment of a financial regulation governing the budgetary aspects of the management by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Council, of contracts concluded in his name, on behalf of certain Member States, relating to the installation and the functioning of the communication infrastructure for the Schengen environment, ‘Sisnet’ (2008/670/JHA).