{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-215/article-47",
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  "legislation": "eur/2008/215",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 215/2008 of 18 February 2008 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the 10th European Development Fund",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-215",
  "path": "article/47",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Budgetary accounting",
  "text": "1. The budgetary accounts shall provide a detailed record of the financial implementation of the EDF resources.\n2. The budgetary accounts shall show all:\n(a) allocations and the corresponding EDF resources;\n(b) financial commitments;\n(c) payments; and\n(d) established debts and collection operations for the financial year, in full and without any adjustment against each other.\n3. When commitments, payments and debts are expressed in national currencies, the accounting system shall make it possible, where necessary, for them to be recorded in national currencies as well as in euro.\n4. Global financial commitments shall be recorded in euro for the value of the financing decisions taken by the Commission. Individual financial commitments shall be recorded in euro at the equivalent of the value of the legal commitments. That value shall include where appropriate:\n(a) provision for the payment of reimbursable expenses on presentation of supporting documents;\n(b) provision for the revision of prices, for the increase in quantities, and for contingencies as defined in EDF-funded contracts;\n(c) financial provision for exchange rate fluctuations.\n5. All accounting records referring to the fulfilment of a commitment shall be kept for a period of five years from the date of the decision giving discharge in respect of the financial implementation of EDF resources referred to in Article 50, concerning the financial year during which the commitment was closed for accounting purposes.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Regulation (EU) No 567/2014 of 26 May 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 215/2008 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the 10th European Development Fund as regards the application of the transition period between the 10th European Development Fund and the 11th European Development Fund until the entry into force of the 11th European Development Fund Internal Agreement."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/215/article/47",
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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."
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