1997 discharge: EC general budget, 6th and 7th European Development Funds EDF

PURPOSE: presentation of the management account and the financial statement relating to budget operations for the budgetary year 1997 (Commission Vol. II) CONTENT: this document presents the managment account and the financial statement of the European Commission for the budgetary year 1997, accompanied by various charts relating to the level of expenditure. The gross total amount of budgetary expenditure for the budgetary year amounts to ECU 81,728,393,808,32. Taking account of negative expenditure attributable to the EAGGF guarantee section (ECU 1,724,945,961,95), the net total amount of budgetary expenditure attributable to the budgetary year 1997 amounts to ECU 80,003,447,846,37.�