Maria da Graça Carvalho is substitute member of the Committee on Budgets.
The Committee on Budgets is responsible for:
- the multiannual financial framework of the Union's revenue and expenditure and the Union's system of own resources;
- Parliament's budgetary prerogatives, namely the budget of the Union as well as the negotiation and implementation of interinstitutional agreements in this field;
- Parliament's estimates according to the procedure defined in the Rules;
- the budget of the decentralised bodies;
- the financial activities of the European Investment Bank;
- the budgetisation of the European Development Fund, without prejudice to the powers of the committee responsible for the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement;
- financial implications and compatibility with the multiannual Financial Framework of all Community acts, without prejudice to the powers of the relevant committees;
- keeping track of and assessing the implementation of the current budget notwithstanding Rule 78(1), transfers of appropriations, procedures relating to the establishment plans, administrative appropriations and opinions concerning buildings-related projects with significant financial implications;
- the Financial Regulation, excluding matters relating to the implementation, management and control of the budget.