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Article 17 Establishment of the budget

United Kingdom

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1.

The budget of the PPP body and the staff establishment plan, including the number of permanent and temporary posts by function group and by grade and complemented with the number of contract staff and of seconded national experts expressed in full-time equivalents, shall be adopted by the governing board in accordance with the constituent act of the PPP body. Detailed provisions may be laid down in the financial rules of the PPP body. Any amendment to the budget of the PPP body, including the establishment plan, shall be the subject of an amending budget of the PPP body adopted by the same procedure as the initial budget of the PPP body. The budget of the PPP body and, where appropriate, the amending budgets of the PPP body shall be adapted in order to take into account the amount of the Union contribution as laid down in the budget of the Union. The annual budget for a particular year shall be adopted by the end of the previous year.

2.

The budget of the PPP body shall consist of a statement of revenue and a statement of expenditure.

3.

The budget of the PPP body shall show:

(a)

in the statement of revenue:

  1. (i)

    the estimated revenue of the PPP body for the financial year concerned (‘year N’);

  2. (ii)

    the estimated revenue for year N-1 and the revenue for year N-2;

  3. (iii)

    appropriate remarks on each revenue line;

(b)

in the statement of expenditure:

  1. (i)

    the commitment and payment appropriations for year N;

  2. (ii)

    the commitment and payment appropriations for the preceding financial year and the expenditure committed and the expenditure paid in year N-2, the latter also expressed as a percentage of the budget of the PPP body of year N;

  3. (iii)

    a summary statement of the schedule of payments due in subsequent financial years to meet budget commitments entered into in earlier financial years;

  4. (iv)

    appropriate remarks on each subdivision.

4.

The establishment plan shall show next to the number of posts authorised for the financial year, the number authorised for the preceding year and the number of posts actually filled. The same information shall be shown for temporary posts, as well as for contract staff and seconded national experts.