Scope of the budget of the Union body
Article 6
1. For each financial year, the budget of the Union body shall forecast and authorise all revenue and expenditure considered necessary for the Union body. It shall comprise the revenue and expenditure of the Union body, including administrative expenditure. 2. The budget of the Union body shall contain the following: (a) non-differentiated appropriations; (b) where justified by operational needs, differentiated appropriations, which consist of commitment appropriations and payment appropriations. 3. The appropriations authorised for the financial year shall consist of: (a) appropriations consisting of the annual contribution granted by the Union; (b) appropriations arising from own revenue consisting of all fees and charges which the Union body is authorised to collect by virtue of the tasks entrusted to it, and any other revenue; (c) appropriations consisting of any financial contributions from the host Member States; (d) appropriations provided following the receipt of revenue assigned during the financial year to specific items of expenditure in accordance with Article 20(1); (e) appropriations carried over from the preceding financial years. 4. Revenue consisting of fees and charges shall only be assigned in exceptional and duly justified cases provided for in the constituent act. 5. Commitment appropriations shall cover the total cost of the legal commitments entered into during the financial year, subject to Article 75(2). 6. Payment appropriations shall cover payments made to honour the legal commitments entered into in the financial year or preceding financial years. 7. Paragraphs 3 and 5 of this Article shall not prevent appropriations being committed globally or budgetary commitments being made in annual instalments as respectively provided for in point (b) of Article 74(1) and in Article 74(2).