If the administrative account has not been adopted by the date of the vote on the budget for the following financial year, when the result of the operating section, the financing requirement or, where applicable, the surplus of the investment section and the forecast allocation are carried forward, under the conditions set out in the last paragraph of this article, the entries in the budget are justified by the production in the appendix of a sheet calculating the forecast results.
This sheet and a table of budget outturns are drawn up by the authorising officer and approved by the accounting officer, who accompanies them either with the management account, if it has been drawn up by that date, or with a balance drawn up after taking into account the last voucher and mandate slip.
The authorising officer produces the statement of outstanding commitments as at 31 December of the financial year ended. The outstanding balances from the operating section are carried forward to the budgetary decision to take back the results in advance.
The territorial council may, in respect of the financial year ended and before the adoption of its administrative account, carry forward to the budget the result from the operating section, the financing requirement from the investment section, or where applicable the surplus from the investment section, as well as the forecast allocation. If the administrative account shows a difference with the amounts carried forward, the territorial council shall proceed to regularise them and to take back the result in the next budgetary deliberation following the vote on the administrative account and, in any event, before the end of the financial year.