Article 8
1. The budget shall be drawn up in euro. 2. The Deputy Secretary-General shall forward the preliminary draft budget to the SIS Working Group before 30 September and attach an explanatory memorandum. 3. The SIS Working Group shall deliver its opinion on that preliminary draft. 4. The Deputy Secretary-General shall establish the draft budget and forward it by 31 October to the States referred to in Article 25. 5. The Member States referred to in Article 25, meeting within the Council, shall adopt the budget before the end of the year. 6. The decision to adopt the budget, duly notified by the Deputy Secretary-General to the States referred to in Article 25, shall mark the point at which those States' contributions fall due.