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1. The revenue of the Agency shall, without prejudice to other types of income, consist of:

(a) a contribution from the Union entered in the general budget of the European Union (Commission section);

(b) charges for services provided by the Agency to Member States in accordance with Article 6;

(c) charges for publications, training and/or any other services provided by the Agency;

(d) charges for services provided by the Agency to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and the European Maritime Safety Agency, in the framework of the European cooperation on coast guard functions laid down in Article 8;

(e) Union funding in the form of delegation agreements or ad-hoc grants in accordance with the Agency’s financial rules referred to in Article 47 and with the provision of the relevant instruments supporting the policies of the Union.

2. The Agency's expenditure shall cover staff and administrative, infrastructure and operational expenses.

3. The Executive Director shall draw up a draft statement of estimates of the Agency's revenue and expenditure for the following financial year and shall forward it to the Administrative Board, together with a draft establishment plan.

4. Revenue and expenditure shall be in balance.

5. Each year the Administrative Board, on the basis of a draft statement of estimates of revenue and expenditure, shall produce a statement of estimates of revenue and expenditure for the Agency for the following financial year.

6. The statement of estimates referred to in paragraph 5, which shall include a draft establishment plan, together with the provisional work programme, shall, by 31 March at the latest, be submitted by the Administrative Board to the Commission.

7. The statement of estimates shall be submitted by the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council (the ‘budgetary authority’) together with the preliminary draft general budget of the European Union.

8. On the basis of the statement of estimates, the Commission shall enter in the preliminary 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.

9. The budgetary authority shall authorise the appropriations for the subsidy to the Agency. The budgetary authority shall adopt the establishment plan for the Agency.

10. The budget shall be adopted by the Administrative Board. It shall become final following the final adoption of the general budget of the European Union. Where appropriate, it shall be adjusted accordingly.

11. The Administrative 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 the budget, in particular any projects relating to property, such as the rental or purchase of buildings. It shall inform the Commission thereof.

12. Where a branch of the budgetary authority has notified its intention to deliver an opinion, it shall submit its opinion to the Administrative Board within a period of six weeks of the date of notification of the project.