Compulsory expenditures
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Also called "obligatory expenditures", it is an expenditure with origin in the treaties or in already adopted legislation.
This part of the EU budget, deals mainly with agriculture, over which the Council has the "final say".
The future
The Lisbon Treaty will revoke the difference between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditures thereby increasing the powers of the European Parliament..
Links
EU Budget at a glance http://ec.europa.eu/budget/budget_glance/index_en.htm
See also non-compulsory expenditures.
