However, the global financial contributions under this Agreement have provided an annual average of about 7,3% of the state budget of Guinea Bissau, and the sectoral support element has contributed some 88% of budgeted fisheries expenditure, thus making an important contribution to the economic stability of the country.

They ask the Commission to initiate any necessary action, on the basis of the provisions of the draft MFF Regulation and the Financial Regulation, to cover the responsibility assigned by the Treaty and, in particular, after having examined the scope for reallocation of the relevant appropriations, with particular reference to any expected under-implementation of appropriations (Financial Regulation Article 41§2) to request additional payment appropriations in an amending budget if the appropriations entered in the 2014 budget are insufficient to cover expenditure.

10. If, at the beginning of a financial year, the draft general budget has not been adopted, a sum equivalent to not more than one twelfth of the budget appropriations for the preceding financial year may be spent each month in respect of any chapter or other subdivision of the budget.

3. The implementation of expenditure shown in the budget shall require the prior adoption of a legally binding Union act providing a legal basis for its action and for the implementation of the corresponding expenditure in accordance with the regulation referred to in Article 322, except in cases for which that law provides.

92. Notes with concern that the data available on the candidate countries' farm sectors is still lacking and calls therefore for additional resources to be allocated in the 2001 budget so as to support the candidate countries adequately in developing an effective agricultural statistics system and in collecting data, as up-to-date and reliable agricultural data is essential for making an objective assessment of developments in those countries;

5. Underlines the fact that enlargement preparations will also have a major additional impact on all budgets of the institutions; recalls that Member States were willing to make the necessary appropriations available for enlargement when the current financial perspective was adopted, as the indicative table for the financial framework EU-21 shows in heading 8 ("Enlargement”); reiterates that the Interinstitutional Agreement, in particular point 25 thereof, provides for a procedure to cater for expenditure resulting from enlargement; stresses that no ad ...[+++]ditional needs can be financed under the current ceilings of heading 5 any longer;