Article 15 Budgetary procedure
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The arrangements for the EGF shall comply with point 13 of the Interinstitutional Agreement.
The appropriations concerning the EGF shall be entered in the general budget of the Union as a provision.
The Commission, on the one hand, and the European Parliament and the Council, on the other hand, shall endeavour to minimise the time taken to mobilise the EGF.
Where the Commission has concluded that the conditions for providing a financial contribution from the EGF are met, it shall submit a proposal to mobilise it. The decision to mobilise the EGF shall be taken jointly by the European Parliament and by the Council within one month of the referral to the European Parliament and to the Council. The Council shall act by a qualified majority and the European Parliament shall act by a majority of its component members and three fifths of the votes cast.
Transfers related to the EGF shall be made in accordance with Article 31 of the Financial Regulation, in principle within a period of no more than seven days from the date of adoption of the relevant decision by the European Parliament and by the Council.
At the same time as it adopts a proposal for a decision to mobilise the EGF, the Commission shall adopt a decision on a financial contribution, by means of an implementing act, which shall enter into force on the date at which the European Parliament and the Council adopt the decision to mobilise the EGF.
A proposal for a decision to mobilise the EGF pursuant to paragraph 4 shall include the following:
the assessment carried out in accordance with Article 8(4), together with a summary of the information on which that assessment is based;
evidence that the criteria laid down in Articles 4 and 9 have been met; and
the reasons justifying the amounts proposed.