10 FEBRUARY 2004. - Act containing the final regulation of the budgets of the general administration services of the State and the separate management state service "Monetary Fund" for the year 2000

ALBERT II, King of the Belgians,
To all, present and to come, Hi.
The House of Representatives adopted and sanctioned the following:
Article 1^er. This Act regulates a matter referred to in Article 74, 3° of the Constitution.
PART I^er. - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION SERVICES
BUDGETARY YEAR 2000
CHAPTER I^er.
Budget commitments (Table A)
§ 1^er. Setting commitments
Art. 2. Expenditure commitments made on the commitment credits for the fiscal year 2000 amount to 29.536.733.868 F
The commitments charged to the commitment authorities for the 2000 fiscal year are 987.999.252 F
§ 2. Licensing of commitments
Art. 3. The commitment credits available to departments for the commitments of the fiscal year 2000 are 41.162.200.000 F
This includes:
1) the initial commitment credits allocated by the budgetary laws
40.113.000.000 F
(2) Credit adjustments:
1.049.200.000 F (net result)
41.162.200.000 F
Art. 4. The total amount of commitment credits allocated for the fiscal year 2000 is reduced by the commitment credits available at the end of the fiscal year and cancelled permanently:
11.625.466.132 F
Art. 5. As a result of the provisions contained in sections 3 and 4 above, the final commitment credits for the 2000 fiscal year are set at 29.536.733.868 F
This amount is equal to the commitments made against the budgetary appropriations for the fiscal year 2000.
§ 3. Setting commitment authorities
Art. 6. The commitment authorities available to departments for the 2000 fiscal year are 988.000.000 F
This includes:
1) the initial commitment authority granted by the budgetary laws
750.000.000 F
(2) Authorization adjustments:
238.000.000 F (net result)
988.000.000 F
Art. 7. The total amount of commitment authorities allocated for the fiscal year 2000 is reduced by the commitment authorities that remain available and are to be cancelled permanently:
748 F
Art. 8. As a result of the provisions contained in sections 6 and 7 above, the final commitment authority for the 2000 fiscal year is:
987.999.252 F
This amount is equal to the commitments made on account of the commitment authorities for the fiscal year 2000.
CHAPTER II. Income and expenditure under the budget.
§ 1^er. Appropriation of income
(Table B)
Art. 9. The rights recognized to the State in the 2000 fiscal year are equal to the sum of 3.638.206.279.408 F
This amount is as follows:
- current income
2.266.433. 920.309 F
- capital revenue
15.707.873.364 F
- produces loans
1.356.064.485.735 F
Art. 10. Revenues charged in the same fiscal year are set at 3.060.731.323.406 F
This amount is as follows:
- current income:
1.701.778.957.244 F
- capital revenue:
2.887.880.427 F
- produces loans:
1.356.064.485.735 F
Art. 11. The remaining fees to be recovered at the end of the fiscal year are 577.474. 956.002 F
This sum is as follows:
(a) rights cancelled or extended to indefinite overseverance:
- current income:
4.180.425.195 F
- capital revenue:
24.000 F
Total
4.180. 449.195 F
(b) deferred to the following fiscal year:
- current income:
560.474.537.870 F
- capital revenue:
12.819.968.937 F
Total
573.294.506.807 F
§ 2. Expenditure setting
(Table C)
Art. 12. The dependant transactions for the 2000 fiscal year are determined as follows:
(a) Prescriptions
- benefits of prior years:
1.792.466.049 F
- benefits of the current year:
40.445.909.350 F
42.238.375.399 F
(b) Undivided
- benefits of prior years:
36.506.591.879 F
- benefits of the current year:
2.238.040.576.155 F
2.274.547.168.034 F
(c) Variable credits
- benefits of prior years:
707.980.318 F
- benefits of the current year:
541.427.830.004 F
542.135.810.322 F
TOTAL OF EXPENDITURE
2.858.921.353.755 F
Payments made, justified or regulated dependent on the fiscal year 2000 are as follows: 2.598.509.819.260 F
Art. 13. (Table D) Payments charged to the budget and whose justification or regularization is returned to a subsequent year pursuant to section 32 of the Act of 28 June 1963 are 260.411.534.495 F
§ 3. Appropriation
Art. 14. The appropriations for departmental departments for the year 2000 totalled 3.208.372.264.743 F
This amount includes:
1° a sum of appropriations allocated by the budgetary laws as follows:
(a) Initial budget
Prescriptions
38.544.600.000 F
Undivided
2.328.099.100.000 F
Variable credits
543.384.413.708 F
(b) adjustments to appropriations (net result)
Prescriptions
6.721.300.000 F
Undivided
26.587.100.000 F
2° credits deferred merged
variable
16.309.086.983 F
3° disassignment of income
variable
- 5.132.929 F
Credits of the year and assimilated (1°, 2° and 3° combined)
Prescriptions
45.265.900.000 F
Undivided
2.354.686.200.000 F
Variable credits
559.688.367.762 F
4° credits deferred non-fusion
Undivided
248.731.796.981 F
Total appropriations:
Prescriptions
45.265.900.000 F
Undivided
2.603.417.996.981 F
Variable credits
559.688.367.762 F
3.208.372.264.743 F
Art. 15. The amount of appropriations for the fiscal year 2000 is reduced:
1° of the credits to be deferred to the year 2001 as follows:
* credits to be merged
Variable credits
17.552.557.440 F
* Credits not to be merged
Undivided
133.024.099.761 F
Total:
150. 576.657.201 F
2° of credits available at the end of the fiscal year and to be cancelled:
Prescriptions
3.027.524.601 F
Undivided
195.935.657.135 F
The deferral and cancellation of credits are:
Prescriptions
3.027.524.601 F
Undivided
328. 959.756.896 F
Variable credits
17.552.557.440 F
Total:
349. 539.838.937 F
Art. 16. To cover the expenditures of the year 2000 made beyond or in the absence of appropriations for the service of budgets, additional appropriations are allocated as follows:
Undivided
88.927.949 F
Art. 17. As a result of the provisions contained in sections 14, 15 and 16, the final appropriations for the 2000 fiscal year are as follows:
Prescriptions
42.238.375.399 F
Undivided
2.274.547.168.034 F
Variable credits
542.135.810.322 F
Total
2.858.921.353.755 F
§ 4. Fixing the overall budget result for the fiscal year 2000 (Table F)
Art. 18. The overall result of the budget for the fiscal year 2000 is definitively determined as follows:
Total income
3.060.731.323.406 F
Total expenditure
2.858.921.353.755 F
Revenue surplus for the year 2000
201.809.969.651 F
This represents a decrease in the cumulative deficit existing at the end of the 1999 fiscal year:
2.087.426.099.527 F
1.885.616.129.876 F
The latter amount will be transferred to the 2001 fiscal year account.
CHAPTER III. - Revenues and expenses incurred in the execution of the return and allocation funds and the budgets of the separate state services (Table G)
§1^er. Restitution and allocation funds
Art. 19. The final regulation of the 2000 return and allocation funds is determined as follows:
1. Income
1.673.042.896.512 F
2. Expenditure
1.672.170.456.253 F
The rationale or regularization of a portion of these expenditures amounting to 4.486.558.321 F is referred to a following year, pursuant to section 32 of the Act of 28 June 1963.
3. Income surplus:
872.440.259 F
This revenue surplus is increasing the existing balance at the end of the previous fiscal year:
574.129.030 F
The final result thus obtained:
1.446.569.289 F
is transferred to the 2001 fiscal year account.
§ 2. Separate Management State Services
Art. 20. The final regulation of the budgets of the separate State-owned services of the year 2000 is as follows (without the operations of the Monetary Fund):
1. Income
3.868.999.283 F
2. Expenditure
3.761.720.535 F
The rationale or regularization of a portion of these expenses amounting to 3.241.455.880 F is returned to a subsequent year pursuant to section 32 of the Act of 28 June 1963.
3. Income surplus:
107.278.748 F
This revenue surplus is increasing the existing balance at the end of the previous fiscal year:
2.517.229.359 F
The final result thus obtained:
2.624.508.107 F
is transferred to the 2001 fiscal year account.
CHAPTER IV. - Special provision
Art. 21. It is waived the debt recovery of the gtr vis-à-vis the SCDF in respect of unpaid refunds of advances for the payment of salaries to members of the Régie staff, up to 183.708.441 FB. Accounting is consistent with this provision.
PART II. - EFFECTIVE OPERATIONS IN EXECUTION OF THE BUDGET OF THE SEPARED MANAGEMENT SERVICE " MONETARY FUNDS"
Art. 22. The Monetary Fund (established by Article 3 of the Law of 12 June 1930 creating a Monetary Fund)
Service responsible for the financing and guarantee of divisional currencies and the financing of the Royal Belgian Mint through advances and loans.
The final regulation of the "Money Fund" budget is for the fiscal year 2000 and follows:
(a) income:
Revenues recorded in the account established under the authority of the Minister of Finance under section 4-01-1 of the Act of 10 July 2000 containing the first adjustment of the General Estimates for the 2000 fiscal year are:
7.891.443.045 F
as shown in Table H, ci-annexed
(b) Expenditures:
Expenditures recorded in the account within the limits of the payment credits
1. allotted by Article 4-01-1 of the aforementioned Act of 5 July 2000
8.639.576.000 F
2. for expenditures exceeding appropriations
478.950.987 F
together
9.118.526.987 F
Payment credits exceeding expenditures are 649.722.843 F cancelled.
(c) Budget results:
The final result of the 2000 budget is as follows:
- income: 7.985.417.542 F
- expenditure: 8.468.804.144 F
surplus as at 31 December 2000: 483.386.602 F
which, taking into account the excess of revenues on expenditures at the end of the previous management year, or 4.735.533.841 F, bears the excess of revenues as at 31 December 2000 at 4.252.147.239 F
Promulgation of this law, let us order that it be clothed with the seal of the State and published by the Belgian Monitor.
Given in Brussels, 10 February 2004
ALBERT
By the King:
Minister of Finance,
D. REYNDERS
Seal of the state seal:
The Minister of Justice,
Ms. L. ONKELINX
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Note
(1) Session 2003-2004
House of Representatives
Documents:
51-0387/1: Bill
51-0387/2: Commission report
51-0387/3: Text adopted in plenary and subject to Royal Assent
Full report: 8 January 2004

TABLES
Table A: Engaging
Table B: Income
Table C: Expenditure
Table D: Expenditures for which justification or regularization is returned to a following year
Table E: Expenditures that exceed budget appropriations or for which no credit has been voted
Table F: Budget Account 2000 - Summary
Table G: Restitution and Allocation Fund and Separate Management State Services
Table H: Separate Management State Service: Monetary Fund
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