The expenditure of the European Parliament, the European Council and the Council, the Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union shall be set out in separate parts of the budget, without prejudice to special arrangements for certain common items of expenditure.

1. In order to validate the expenditure, each participating country shall set up a control system making it possible to verify the delivery of the products and services co-financed, the soundness of the expenditure declared for operations or parts of operations implemented on its territory, and the compliance of such expenditure and of related operations, or parts of those operations, with Community, when relevant, and its national rules.

The main advantages to be drawn from budgetisation are: (i) Legitimacy EDF would be submitted to political control of the European Parliament; (ii) Efficiency instead of two parallel systems (EU budget and EDF) one set of administrative rules and decision making structures would apply; (iii) transparency With one budget covering all external aid expenditures public will more easily get a global picture of EC expenditure on development policy; (iv) an annual reality check budgetisation would enable EDF spending to respond faster to ...[+++]emerging needs and priorities; and (v) modernise relations with ACP's and OCT's Budgetisation would place co-operation at true EU-level aligning with other policy areas.

The expenditure of the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Justice shall be set out in separate parts of the budget, without prejudice to special arrangements for certain common items of expenditure.

(5) Whereas the responsibility for checking the Fund's Guarantee Section expenditure lies, in the first place, with the Member States, which designate the authorities and bodies empowered to effect expenditure; whereas the Member States must carry out this task fully and effectively; whereas the Commission, being responsible for implementing the Community budget, must verify the conditions under which payments and checks have been made; whereas the Commission can only finance expenditure where those conditions offer all necessary guarantees regarding compliance with Community rules; whereas, in a decentralised ...[+++]system of management of Community expenditure, it is essential that the Commission, as the institution responsible for funding, its entitled and enabled to carry out all checks on the management of expenditure it considers necessary and that there should be full and effective transparency and mutual assistance between the Member States and the Commission;

The share of provincial spending or revenue because remember, we balanced the budget, so revenue equals expenditures going into the future going to education, other government services, social welfare services and so on, grows much less quickly, because we allowed health care to continue the same kind of growth and spending patterns as we have observed historically.