{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-715/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-715/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/715",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/715 of 18 December 2018 on the framework financial regulation for the bodies set up under the TFEU and Euratom Treaty and referred to in Article 70 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-715",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Definition and scope",
  "text": "1. Revenue and payment appropriations shall be in balance.\n2. Commitment appropriations may not exceed the amount of the Union contribution, plus own revenue and any other revenue referred to in Article 6.\n3. For bodies for which the revenue is constituted by fees and charges in addition to the Union contribution, fees should be set at a level such as to avoid a significant accumulation of surplus. Where a significant positive or negative budget result, within the meaning of Article 99, becomes recurrent, the level of the fees and charges shall be revised.\n4. The Union body shall not raise loans within the framework of the budget of the Union body.\n5. The Union contribution to the Union body shall constitute for the budget of the Union body a balancing contribution and may be divided into a number of payments.\n6. The Union body shall implement rigorous cash management, taking due account of assigned revenue, in order to ensure that its cash balances are limited to duly justified requirements. With its payment requests it shall submit detailed and updated forecasts on its real cash requirements throughout the year, including information on assigned revenue.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/715/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:26.049454+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}