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1. Estimates of all the revenue and expenditure of the Centre shall be prepared for each financial year, corresponding to the calendar year, and shall be shown in the budget of the Centre.

2. The revenue and expenditure shown in the budget of the Centre shall be in balance.

3. The revenue of the Centre shall, without prejudice to other resources, comprise:

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

(b) payments received for services rendered;

(c) any financial contributions from the competent bodies referred to in Article 5;

(d) any voluntary contribution from the Member States; and (e) any revenue from contribution agreements or grant agreements exceptionally concluded between the Commission and the Centre.

3a Financing from the Union budget may be awarded to the Centre for the costs that it incurs in implementing its work programme established in conformity with the objectives and priorities of the work programmes adopted by the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/522 of the European Parliament and the Council (), and the Research and Innovation programmes of the Union. That financing shall not cover expenditure already covered by the general budget of the Union or by any other resource of the Centre set out in paragraph 3 of this Article.

4. The expenditure of the Centre shall include staff remuneration, administrative and infrastructure costs, operating expenses and expenses resulting from contracts entered into with the institutions or with third parties.

5. Each year, on the basis of a draft drawn up by the director, the Management Board shall produce an estimate of revenue and expenditure for the Centre for the following financial year. That estimate, including a draft establishment plan, shall be included in the draft single programming document provided for in Article 14(5), point (e), of this Regulation. In accordance with Article 40 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council (), by 31 January each year the Centre shall send to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission its draft single programming document, as endorsed by its Management Board.

6. The estimate shall be forwarded by the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council (hereinafter referred to as the ‘budgetary authority’) together with the preliminary draft budget of European Union.

7. On the basis of the estimate, the Commission shall enter in the preliminary draft general budget of the Union the estimates it considers 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.

8. The budgetary authority shall authorise the appropriations for the subsidy to the Centre. The budgetary authority shall adopt the establishment plan for the Centre.

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

10. 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.

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