Article 13 Budget

Without prejudice to other resources and dues yet to be defined, revenue of the Agency shall include a Union subsidy entered in the general budget of the European Union in order to ensure a balance between revenue and expenditure.

The expenditure of the Agency shall cover staff, administrative and infrastructure expenditure, operating costs and expenditure associated with the functioning of the Security Accreditation Board, including the bodies referred to in Article 11(11), and the contracts and agreements concluded by the Agency in order to accomplish the tasks entrusted to it.

The Executive Director shall, in close collaboration with the Chairperson of the Security Accreditation Board for activities covered by Chapter III, draw up a draft estimate of expenditure and revenue of the Agency for the next financial year, making clear the distinction between those elements of the draft statement of estimates which relate to security accreditation activities and the other activities of the Agency. The Chairperson of the Security Accreditation Board may write a statement on that draft and the Executive Director shall forward both the draft estimate and the statement to the Administrative Board and the Security Accreditation Board, accompanied by a draft establishment plan.

Revenue and expenditure shall be in balance.

Each year, the Administrative Board, based on the draft estimate of expenditure and revenue and in close cooperation with the Security Accreditation Board for activities covered by Chapter III, shall draw up the estimate of the Agency’s revenue and expenditure for the next financial year.

The Administrative Board shall, by 31 March, forward the statement of estimates, which shall include a draft establishment plan together with the provisional annual work programme, to the Commission and to the third countries or international organisations with which the Union has concluded agreements in accordance with Article 23(1).

The statement of estimates shall be forwarded by the Commission to the European Parliament and to the Council (hereinafter the ‘budgetary authority’) together with the draft general budget of the European Union.

On the basis of the statement of estimates, the Commission shall enter in the draft general budget of the European Union the estimates it deems necessary for the establishment plan and the amount of the subsidy to be charged to the general budget, which it shall place before the budgetary authority in accordance with Article 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

The budgetary authority shall authorise the appropriations for the subsidy to the Agency and shall adopt the establishment plan for the Agency.

The budget shall be adopted by the Administrative Board. It shall become final following definitive adoption of the general budget of the European Union. Where appropriate, it shall be adjusted accordingly.

The Administrative Board shall, as soon as possible, notify the budgetary authority of its intention to implement any project which will have significant financial implications for the funding of the budget, in particular any projects relating to property such as the rental or purchase of buildings. It shall inform the Commission thereof.

Where a branch of the budgetary authority has notified its intention to deliver an opinion, it shall forward its opinion to the Administrative Board within a period of 6 weeks from the date of notification of the project.