A. – The financing requirement or surplus of the investment section recorded at the end of the financial year is made up of the outturn balance corrected by the outstanding commitments.
The outturn balance of the investment section corresponds to the difference between the amount of revenue vouchers and the amount of expenditure orders issued during the financial year, including, where applicable, reductions and cancellations of revenue and expenditure, increased or decreased by the carryover from previous financial years.
Outstanding commitments from the investment section at the end of the financial year correspond to committed expenditure that has not been mandated and certain revenue that has not given rise to the issue of a title.
B. – The operating result corresponds to the surplus or deficit for the year. For the purposes of appropriation, it is combined with the previous result brought forward, excluding any outstanding commitments.
The outstanding commitments of the operating section at the end of the financial year correspond to expenditure that has not been mandated and has not been attached to the accounts, as well as revenue that has not given rise to the issue of a title and has not been attached to the accounts. They are carried forward to the budget for the following financial year.