Article 61
1. The budget commitment is the operation reserving the appropriations necessary to cover subsequent payments to honour a legal commitment. 2. The legal commitment is the act whereby the authorising officer responsible enters into or establishes an obligation which results in a charge for the budget. 3. The budget commitment is individual when the beneficiary and the amount of the expenditure are known. 4. The budget commitment is global when at least one of the elements necessary to identify the individual commitment is still not known. 5. The budget commitment is provisional when it is intended to cover routine administrative expenditure and either the amount or the final beneficiaries are not definitively known. The provisional budget commitment shall be implemented either by the conclusion of one or more individual legal commitments giving rise to an entitlement to subsequent payments or, in exceptional cases relating to expenditure on staff management, directly by payments