Submission of the annual budget forecast
Article 2
1. Member States wishing to receive a financial contribution from the Community for the implementation of their multi-annual programme, as referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 199/2008, hereinafter ‘the national programme’, shall submit to the Commission by 31 March of the year prior to the period of the implementation of that programme: (a) an annual budget forecast for the first year of implementation of the national programme; and (b) indicative annual budget forecasts for each of the following years of implementation of the national programme. 2. Member States shall submit definitive annual budget forecasts for each of the years of implementation of their national programme, following the first, where they differ from the indicative budget forecasts already submitted. Definitive annual budget forecasts shall be submitted by 31 October prior to the year of implementation concerned. 3. For the first national programme covering the period 2009-2010, the annual budget forecasts shall be submitted by 15 October 2008.