Estimates of all the revenue and expenditure of EU-OSHA shall be prepared each financial year and shall be shown in EU-OSHA's budget. The financial year shall correspond to the calendar year.

EU-OSHA's budget shall be balanced in terms of revenue and of expenditure.

The expenditure of EU-OSHA shall include staff remuneration, administrative and infrastructure expenses and operational expenditure.

Each year, the Executive Director shall draw up a provisional draft estimate of EU-OSHA's revenue and expenditure for the following financial year, including the establishment plan, and send it to the Management Board.

The provisional draft estimate shall be based on the objectives and expected results of the annual programming document referred to in Article 6(1) and shall take into account the financial resources necessary to achieve those objectives and expected results, in accordance with the principle of performance-based budgeting.

The Management Board shall, on the basis of the provisional draft estimate, adopt a draft estimate of EU-OSHA's revenue and expenditure for the following financial year, and shall send it to the Commission by 31 January each year.

The Commission shall send the draft estimate to the budgetary authority, together with the draft general budget of the Union. The draft estimate shall also be made available to EU-OSHA.

On the basis of the draft estimate, the Commission shall enter in the draft general budget of the Union the estimate that it considers necessary for the establishment plan and the amount of the contribution to be charged to the general budget, which it shall place before the budgetary authority in accordance with Articles 313 and 314 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

The budgetary authority shall authorise the appropriations for the contribution from the general budget of the Union to EU-OSHA.

The budgetary authority shall adopt EU-OSHA's establishment plan.

EU-OSHA's budget shall be adopted by the Management Board. It shall become definitive following final adoption of the general budget of the Union and, if necessary, shall be adjusted accordingly. Any modification to EU-OSHA's budget, including the establishment plan, shall be adopted in accordance with the same procedure.

For any building project likely to have significant implications for EU-OSHA's budget, Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1271/2013 shall apply.

The Executive Director shall implement EU-OSHA's budget.

Each year the Executive Director shall send to the budgetary authority all information relevant to the findings of evaluation procedures.

EU-OSHA's accounting officer shall send the provisional accounts for the financial year (Year N) to the Commission's Accounting Officer and to the Court of Auditors by 1 March of the following financial year (year N + 1).

EU-OSHA shall send a report on the budgetary and financial management for year N to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors by 31 March of year N + 1.

The Commission's accounting officer shall send EU-OSHA's provisional accounts for year N, consolidated with the Commission's accounts, to the Court of Auditors by 31 March of year N + 1.

On receipt of the Court of Auditors' observations on EU-OSHA's provisional accounts for year N, pursuant to Article 246 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046, the accounting officer shall draw up EU-OSHA's final accounts for that year. The Executive Director shall submit them to the Management Board for an opinion.

The Management Board shall deliver an opinion on EU-OSHA's final accounts for year N.

EU-OSHA's accounting officer shall, by 1 July of year N + 1 send the final accounts for year N to the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the Court of Auditors, together with the Management Board's opinion.

The final accounts for year N shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union by 15 November of year N + 1.

The Executive Director shall send to the Court of Auditors, by 30 September of year N + 1, a reply to the observations made in its annual report. The Executive Director shall also send the reply to the Management Board.

The Executive Director shall submit to the European Parliament, at the latter's request, any information required for the smooth application of the discharge procedure for year N, in accordance with Article 109(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1271/2013.

On a recommendation from the Council acting by a qualified majority, the European Parliament shall, before 15 May of year N + 2, give a discharge to the Executive Director in respect of the implementation of the budget for year N.