The appropriations are voted by chapter and, if the Metropolitan Council so decides, by article. In both these cases, the Metropolitan Council may, however, specify that certain appropriations are specialised by article.
In the event of voting by article, the President of the Metropolitan Council may, by express decision, make transfers from article to article within the same chapter excluding articles whose appropriations are specialised.
Within a limit set at the time of the budget vote and which may not exceed 7.5% of the actual expenditure of each of the sections, the Metropolitan Council may delegate to its President the possibility of making transfers of appropriations from chapter to chapter, excluding appropriations relating to staff expenditure. In this case, the President of the Metropolitan Council informs the deliberative assembly of these credit movements at its next meeting.