Article 15
1. The budget revenue and payment appropriations must be in balance. 2. Commitment appropriations may not exceed the amount of the Community subsidy, plus own revenue and any other revenue referred to in Article 5. 3. Europol may not raise loans. 4. Community funds paid to Europol shall constitute for its budget a balancing subsidy which shall count as pre-financing within the meaning of Article 81(1)(b)(i) of the general Financial Regulation. 5. Europol 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, Europol shall submit detailed and updated forecasts on its real cash requirements throughout the year, including information on assigned revenue.