2. Any unspent amount of prefinancing shall not become final until it has been used by the European political party to pay reimbursable expenditure which meets the criteria defined in the call for contributions.

12. Notes that the new Treaty retains the provision whereby the provisional twelfths system is applied where the budget cannot be definitively adopted before the beginning of the financial year; points out that this means that the budget will be executed on a monthly basis using, in essence, the previous budget as a spending ceiling.

2. Expenditure under the current programming period incurred by the final date of eligibility for expenditure of that programming period and relating to operations covered by the first indent of point 2.1 and by point 3 of Rule No 11 of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1685/2000, including ex ante evaluations referred to in Article 85 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, for the preparation of rural development programmes under the new programming period, shall be, subject to the conditions laid down in points 2.2 to 2.7 and 3 of that Rule, eligible under the technical assistance component in the current operational programmes or rural development programming doc ...[+++]uments.

in case of one or other form of public intervention, where such intervention results in a farmer growing crops on land previously regarded as ineligible for arable crops area payment in order to continue his normal agricultural activity and the intervention in question means that land originally eligible ceases to be so, Member Sates may not increase their total eligible agricultural area, either temporarily or permanently, by more than 0.1 % of their total base area.

10. Notes that the Foundation has a high share of administrative expenditure (Title 1 and 2 of the budget); notes that in the 2003 budget, it makes up about EUR 10 million; whilst operational expenditure (Title 3) is about EUR 7 million; notes that many of the operating systems in practice at the Commission are imposed on the Foundation even though they are more adapted to the needs of a very large administration rather than a smaller organisation like the Foundation;

10. Notes that the Foundation has a high share of administrative expenditure (Title 1 and 2 of the budget). In the 2003 budget, its makes up for about 10 million euro, whilst operational expenditure (Title 3) is about 7 million euro; notes that many of the operating systems in practice at the European Commission are imposed on the Foundation even though they are more adapted to the needs of a very large administration rather than a smaller organisation like the Foundation;