Section 3: Financial and budgetary organisation.

Within fifteen days of receiving the decision to approve the budget, the Director shall allocate the approved expenditure authorisations and revenue forecasts by functional group to the accounts in accordance with the nomenclature drawn up jointly by the Ministers for the Budget, Overseas France and Health. These accounts constitute the level of control of the availability of appropriations exercised by the accounting officer. The budget controller checks that the allocation…

The expenditure authorisations and revenue estimates by functional group entered in the budget may be the subject of amending decisions. These are prepared by the Director of the Agency and voted by the Administrative Board under the same conditions as the initial budget. Amending decisions must be voted before 31st December of the financial year to which they relate.

The transfers of appropriations from one account to another provided for in the penultimate paragraph of Article L. 6431-10 shall be subject to approval by the Budget Controller, who shall check that such transfers are compatible with the Agency’s obligations and commitments.

The authorising officer shall keep accounts of expenditure incurred for each of the accounts making up the functional groups defined in the nomenclature provided for in article D. 6431-49.

The master plan on which the Board of Directors deliberates in application of 3° of article L. 6431-6 provides for all works and equipment operations whose costs exceed thresholds set by order of the ministers responsible for the budget, overseas territories and health. The master plan is drawn up in accordance with the hospital project mentioned in 1 of article L. 6431-4, as approved.

All the operations to be included in the master plan and the other equipment operations likely to be included in the investment section of the agency’s budget will give rise to a multi-year overall financing plan with a minimum duration of five years. The overall financing plan sets out the estimated costs of all these operations and how they will be financed, both in terms of investment and operation. It…

When the total cost of a works project exceeds a threshold set by order of the Ministers for the Budget, Overseas Territories and Health, the Board of Directors decides on the basis of a file containing the following information for the project in question: 1° A presentation report placing the operation in the context of the hospital project and justifying, where appropriate, any changes in relation to this project; 2°…

For other works and equipment operations likely to be included in the master plan, the Board of Directors will deliberate on the basis of a file containing for each operation: 1° The nature and purpose of the works and equipment ; 2° The estimated cost and financing arrangements; 3° The revised multi-year overall financing plan.

The decisions of the Board of Directors relating to operations likely to be included in the master plan are sent for approval to the administrative authorities mentioned in 2° of article L. 6431-7, accompanied, as appropriate, by the files provided for in articles D. 6431-55 or D. 6431-56.