On 21 April 1970, the Council decides that financial contributions from the six Member States would henceforth be replaced by the Communities’ own resources.

Treaty amending certain budgetary provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Communities and of the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities, signed in Luxembourg on 22 April 1970.

Images of the signature of the Treaty amending certain budgetary provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Communities and of the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities, which took place on 22 April 1970 in the Alcide de Gasperi building of the European Parliament in Luxembourg. The following were signatories to the Treaty: Pierre Harmel, Belgian Foreign Minister, Walter Scheel, FRG Foreign Minister, Maurice Schumann, French Foreign Minister, Aldo Moro, Italian Foreign Minister, Gaston Thorn, Luxembourg Foreign and External Trade Minister and H. J. de Koster, Netherlands Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Joint Declaration, issued on 4 March 1975, on the institution of a conciliation procedure between the Parliament and the Council, applicable to acts with significant financial implications.

Treaty amending certain financial provisions of the Treaties establishing the European Communities and of the Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities. On 22 July 1975, in Brussels, the Member States of the Europe of the Nine sign this Treaty which provides for the establishment of a Court of Auditors and strengthens the European Parliament's budgetary powers. These reforms proved necessary following the implementation of the financial system of own resources, which established the financial autonomy of the European Communities.

Joint Declaration by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission of 30ºJune 1982 on various measures to improve the budgetary procedure.

Interinstitutional Agreement of 29 June 1988 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure.

Interinstitutional Agreement of 29 October 1993 on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure.

Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure.

Article published on 17 July 2003 in the Europe Daily Bulletin explaining the participation of the two arms of the budgetary authority, in particular that of the Council, in the budgetary procedure of the European Union.

Interinstitutional Agreement on 17 May 2006 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and sound financial management.

On 17 May 2006, in Strasbourg, the representatives of the three institutions — Josep Borrell Fontelles of the European Parliament, Wolfgang Schüssel of the Council of the European Union and Dalia Grybauskaite, Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget — sign the Interinstitutional Agreement on budgetary discipline and sound financial management.

Press release, dated 14 July 2006, illustrating the role of the Council of the European Union in the annual budgetary procedure.

This article, published in the Europe Daily Bulletin on 7 September 2006, illustrates one stage of the ‘shuttle procedure’ which should enable the Council and Parliament to reach agreement on the annual budget of the European Union.

In this interview, Norbert Schwaiger, former Head of the Press Office of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, outlines the development of the sharing of budgetary powers between the Council and the European Parliament.

Diagram illustrating the budgetary procedure provided for by Article 272 of the Treaty establishing the European Community.

Diagram outlining the annual budgetary procedure and the successive actions of the two arms of the budgetary authority: the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.

Table showing the course of the annual budgetary procedure which follows the official timetable laid down in Article 272 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC).

Table showing the course of the annual budgetary procedure in accordance with the pragmatic timetable applied by the Council, the Parliament and the Commission since 1977.