PURPOSE : to present the revenue and expenditure account and the balance sheet concerning the activities of the budget for the financial year 2002 (Section V - Court of Auditors).
CONTENT : this document sets out the amount of expenditure and the balance sheet for the other institutions of the Union (except the Commission) for 2002, in particular the Court of Auditors.
The Court's 2002 budget amounted to EUR 83.578.611 committed to the amount of 98,11%.
The amount of committed appropriations that has not yet been paid and which has been deferred to the 2003 financial year amounts to approximately 19,72% of the total amount of commitments.
The 2002 budget was mainly marked by the issue of real estate and, in particular, the extension of its main building in Luxembourg. Work started during 2001 and an amount of EUR 6.6 million was transferred in 2002.
The other important element of the 2002 budget concerns the recruitment costs of the new civil servants from the acceding countries.�