2003 budget: other sections

On 2 December 2002, the Commission sent the Council letter of amendment No 4 to the preliminary draft general budget of the EC for 2003. The letter of amendment seeks to amend the statements both of revenue and expenditure in the budget, so at to adapt the latter to the provisions of the new Financial Regulation which apply from 01/01/03 (please refer to the summary dated 28/11/2002). This letter of amendment is budgetarily neutral. On 6 December 2002, the Council established Letter of Amendment No 3 to the draft budget for the financial year 2003 as set out in the technical annex to the explanatory memorandum.�