Assigned Revenue in the Budget of the European Parliament

Briefing 16-10-2017

While assigned revenue is effectively an exception to the principle of universality, it also takes account of the specific nature of such revenue and makes it possible to use it for its natural purpose. In certain cases, such as insurance payments serving to provide compensation for damages or to correct errors, the principle of universality is not applicable, or only with great difficulty. Moreover, assigned revenue is not always ‘true revenue’. In the two examples above, which in fact concern compensation for damage or correction of errors, pooling them according to the principle of budgetary universality would not make sense.