{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2011-85/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2011/85",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2011/85/EU of 8 November 2011 on requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2011-85",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive, the definitions of ‘government’, ‘deficit’ and ‘investment’ set out in Article 2 of the Protocol (No 12) on the excessive deficit procedure annexed to the TEU and to the TFEU shall apply. The definition of sub-sectors of general government set out in point 2.70 of Annex A to Regulation (EC) No 2223/96 shall also apply.\nIn addition, the following definition shall apply:\n‘budgetary framework’ means the set of arrangements, procedures, rules and institutions that underlie the conduct of budgetary policies of general government, in particular:\n(a) systems of budgetary accounting and statistical reporting;\n(b) rules and procedures governing the preparation of forecasts for budgetary planning;\n(c) country-specific numerical fiscal rules, which contribute to the consistency of Member States’ conduct of fiscal policy with their respective obligations under the TFEU, expressed in terms of a summary indicator of budgetary performance, such as the government budget deficit, borrowing, debt, or a major component thereof;\n(d) budgetary procedures comprising procedural rules to underpin the budget process at all stages;\n(e) medium-term budgetary frameworks as a specific set of national budgetary procedures that extend the horizon for fiscal policy-making beyond the annual budgetary calendar, including the setting of policy priorities and of medium-term budgetary objectives;\n(f) arrangements for independent monitoring and analysis, to enhance the transparency of elements of the budget process;\n(g) mechanisms and rules that regulate fiscal relationships between public authorities across sub-sectors of general government.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2011/85/article/2",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}