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AI Summary of Article 64 Implementation and control of the budget

The Executive Director is the authorising officer and shall implement the Authority’s annual budget. The accounting officer shall send provisional accounts to the Commission’s accounting officer and the Court of Auditors by 1 March and may provide information requested by the Court under Article 70. By 1 March the accounting officer shall also send consolidation accounting information in the Commission’s required format; by 31 March it shall send the report on budgetary and financial management to the Board of Supervisors, the European Parliament, the Council and the Court of Auditors.

After the Court of Auditors’ observations under Article 246 of the Financial Regulation the accounting officer shall draw up the final accounts, which the Executive Director shall send to the Board of Supervisors for an opinion. By 1 July the final accounts and the Board’s opinion shall be sent to the Commission, the European Parliament, the Council and the Court of Auditors; a reporting package shall be sent to the Commission by 15 June. Final accounts shall be published in the Official Journal by 15 November. The Executive Director shall reply to the Court by 30 September and copy the Management Board and Commission, provide information to the European Parliament on request under Article 261(3), and the European Parliament, following a Council recommendation by qualified majority, shall grant discharge before 15 May of year N+2; the Authority shall provide a reasoned opinion on the Parliament’s position and observations.

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Article 64 Implementation and control of the budget

1. The Executive Director shall act as authorising officer and shall implement the Authority's annual budget.

2. The Authority's accounting officer shall send the provisional accounts to the Commission's accounting officer and to the Court of Auditors by 1 March of the following year. Article 70 shall not preclude the Authority from providing to the Court of Auditors any information requested by the Court that is within its competence.

3. The Authority's accounting officer shall send, by 1 March of the following year, the required accounting information for consolidation purposes to the accounting officer of the Commission, in the manner and format laid down by that accounting officer.

4. The Authority's accounting officer shall also send, by 31 March of the following year, the report on budgetary and financial management to the members of the Board of Supervisors, to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the Court of Auditors.

5. After receiving the observations of the Court of Auditors on the provisional accounts of the Authority in accordance with Article 246 of the Financial Regulation, the Authority's accounting officer shall draw up the Authority's final accounts. The Executive Director shall send them to the Board of Supervisors, which shall deliver an opinion on those accounts.

6. The Authority's accounting officer shall, by 1 July of the following year, send the final accounts, accompanied by the opinion of the Board of Supervisors, to the accounting officer of the Commission, the European Parliament, the Council and the Court of Auditors.