Article 9
No revenue shall be collected and no expenditure effected unless booked to a line in the budget of the Union body. No expenditure may be committed or authorised in excess of the appropriations authorised by the budget of the Union body. An appropriation may be entered in the budget of the Union body only if it is for an item of expenditure considered necessary. Interests generated by pre-financing payment made from the budget of the Union body shall not be due to 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.