The surplus from the operating section for the financial year just ended, together with the previous result carried forward, is allocated in full at the earliest budgetary decision following the vote on the administrative account and, in any event, before the close of the following financial year. The allocation decision taken by the metropolitan authority is produced in support of the budgetary decision to take back this result.
The deficit result of the operating section, the financing requirement or the surplus of the investment section are taken back in full as soon as the nearest budgetary decision following the vote on the administrative account and, in any event, before the end of the financial year.
Between the deadline for mandating set out in the last paragraph of Article L. 1612-11 and the deadline for voting on local tax rates set out in article 1639 A of the General Tax Code, the Metropolitan Council may, in respect of the financial year ended and before the adoption of its administrative account, carry forward to the budget the result of the operating section, the financing requirement of the investment section or, where applicable, the surplus of the investment section as well as the forecast allocation.
If the administrative account shows a difference with the amounts carried forward, the council of the metropolitan authority shall proceed to regularise them and to take back the result in the nearest budgetary decision following the vote on the administrative account and, in any event, before the end of the financial year.
A decree shall set the conditions for application of this article.