Article 32

The revenue of the Agency shall consist, without prejudice to other types of income, of: a subsidy from the Union entered in the general budget of the European Union (Commission section); a contribution from the countries associated with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis and Eurodac-related measures; any financial contribution from the Member States. The expenditure of the Agency shall include, inter alia, staff remuneration, administrative and infrastructure expenses, operating costs and expenditure relating to contracts or agreements concluded by the Agency. Each year the Executive Director shall draw up, taking into account the activities carried out by the Agency, a draft statement of estimates of the Agency’s revenue and expenditure for the following financial year, together with the establishment plan, and shall transmit it to the Management Board. Revenue and expenditure of the Agency shall be in balance. The Management Board, on the basis of a draft drawn up by the Executive Director, shall adopt a draft statement of estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the Agency for the following financial year. The draft statement of estimates of the Agency’s revenue and expenditure and the general guidelines underlying that estimate, shall be transmitted by the Management Board to the Commission and to the countries associated with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis and Eurodac-related measures by 10 February each year and the final statement of estimates by 31 March each year. By 31 March each year, the Management Board shall submit to the Commission and to the budgetary authority: its draft annual work programme; its updated multi-annual Staff Policy Plan, established in line with the guidelines set by the Commission; information on the number of officials, temporary and contract staff as defined in the Staff Regulations for the years n-1 and n as well as an estimate for the year n+1; information on contributions in kind granted by the host Member States to the Agency; an estimate of the balance of the outturn account for the year n-1. The statement of estimates shall be forwarded by the Commission to the budgetary authority together with the draft general budget of the European Union. On the basis of the statement of estimates, the Commission shall enter in the draft general budget of the European Union the estimates it deems necessary for the establishment plan and the amount of the subsidy to be charged to the general budget, which it shall place before the budgetary authority in accordance with Article 314 TFEU. The budgetary authority shall authorise the appropriations for the subsidy to the Agency. The budgetary authority shall adopt the establishment plan for the Agency. The Agency’s budget shall be adopted by the Management Board. It shall become final following the final adoption of the general budget of the European Union. Where appropriate, it shall be adjusted accordingly. Any modification to the budget, including the establishment plan, shall follow the same procedure. The Management Board shall, as soon as possible, notify the budgetary authority of its intention to implement any project, which may have significant financial implications for the funding of its budget, in particular any projects relating to property such as the rental or purchase of buildings. It shall inform the Commission thereof as well as the countries associated with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis and Eurodac-related measures. If either branch of the budgetary authority intends to issue an opinion, it shall, within 2 weeks after receipt of the information on the project, notify the Management Board of its intention to issue such an opinion. In the absence of a reply, the Agency may proceed with the planned operation.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-14 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.