Article 32

The Union body shall draw up a programming document containing multiannual and annual programming taking into account guidelines set by the Commission. The multiannual programme shall set out: overall strategic programming including objectives, expected results and performance indicators, resource programming including multiannual budget and staff. The resource programming shall include qualitative and quantitative information on the human resource and budgetary matters for the reporting purposes, in particular: for the years N–1 and N, the information on, the number of officials, temporary and contract staff as defined in the Staff Regulations as well as seconded national experts, for the year N–1 an estimate of the budgetary operations within the meaning of Article 97 and information on contribution in kind granted by the host Member State to the Union body, for the year N+1 estimate of the number of officials, temporary and contract staff as defined in the Staff Regulations, for the following years, an indicative budget and staff resource programming. The Commission shall send to the Union body the opinion of its relevant services on the draft human resource programming. If the Union body does not fully take into account the Commission services’ opinion, it shall provide the Commission with adequate explanations. The resource programming shall be updated annually. The strategic programming shall be updated where appropriate, and in particular to address the outcome of the overall evaluations referred to in the constituent act. The annual work programme of the Union body shall comprise detailed objectives and expected results including performance indicators. It shall also contain a description of the action(s) to be financed and an indication of the amount of financial and human resource allocated to each action. The annual work programme shall be coherent with the multiannual programme referred to in paragraph 1. It shall clearly indicate which tasks of the Union body have been added, changed or deleted in comparison with the previous financial year. Any substantial amendment to the annual work programme shall be adopted by the same procedure as the initial work programme, in accordance with the provisions of the constituent act and Article 33 of this Regulation. The management board may delegate the power to make non-substantial amendments to the annual work programme to the authorising officer of the Union body.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.