The complete replacement of financial contributions of Member States by the Communities' own resources requires a strengthening of the budgetary powers of the Assembly. ... The Council shall, acting by a qualified majority, establish the draft administrative budget and forward it to the Assembly. The draft administrative budget shall be placed before the Assembly not later than 5 October of the year preceding that in which the budget is to be implemented. The Assembly shall have the right to amend the draft administrative budget, acting by a majority of its members and to propose to the Council, acting by an absolute majority of the votes cast, modifications to the draft budget relating to expenditure necessarily resulting from this Treaty or from acts adopted in accordance therewith.
