Council Decision (EU) 2022/2199 of 8 November 2022 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Regional Steering Committee of the Transport Community as regards the adoption of the budget of the Transport Community for 2023

The position to be taken on behalf of the Union within the Regional Steering Committee of the Transport Community (‘the Steering Committee’) as regards the adoption of the budget of the Transport Community for the year 2023 shall be based on the draft decision of the Steering Committee attached to this Decision.

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.

The budget of the Transport Community for the year of 2023, attached to this Decision, is hereby adopted.

1 In accordance with Article 10(1) of the financial rules and auditing procedures applicable to the Transport Community, appropriations of a given budget line of the 2023 budget may be used for purposes the budget attributes to another budget line, within the total limit of 10 % of the appropriations of the former budget line. This shall not apply to the budget line regarding the human resources budget.

2 Appropriations carried over in order to meet obligations signed at the end of 2022, as specified in the budget attached, shall not be eligible for the use referred to in paragraph 1. They shall not be taken into account for determining the maximum amount corresponding to the limit of 10 % referred to therein.

Appropriations which have not been committed at the end of the financial year 2022 shall be cancelled and paid back to the Parties in accordance with the percentages established in Annex V of the Treaty establishing the Transport Community and the actual contributions paid.