Expenditure ceilings established in the perspective were agreed as binding.

Where traditional own resources are inadequate to meet the new expenditure ceiling, the fourth resource comes into operation.

It is a variable topping-up resource to meet the expenditure ceiling.

The expenditure ceiling will soon be in sight.

It is essential that the future expenditure ceiling should allow this policy to be strengthened after enlargement.

The result is an ever-increasing disparity between the expenditure ceiling agreed in 1998 and actual spending.

The target should be to come down below the expenditure ceiling of 1% of gross domestic income.

They demanded that the financial perspective should include an expenditure ceiling of 1% of gross national income.

Parliament must engage in an open discussion about the expenditure ceiling in heading 5 for 2011.

My thanks to the many people who have expressed their support for keeping within the expenditure ceilings set out at Berlin and Brussels.

What this really means is that he regards the expenditure ceiling for agriculture as a spending target, which is something we cannot agree with.

Second-best would be to permit candidates to spend 20 percent above the expenditure ceiling on fund-raising - the same formula used in Federal races.

The expenditure ceiling for the multiannual financial framework of the European Union budget for 2012 was increased once again.

Firstly, as with other expenditure headings, this must be an expenditure ceiling rather than a spending target.

Presumably attempts will be made to agree expenditure ceilings post-1992 to avoid the outbreak, at a later date, of inter-institutional frictions.

In 1973 the provincial government, coping with declining enrolment and a downturn in the economy, imposed expenditure ceilings on all school boards.

When we in Parliament debate the financial estimates, we do not focus upon an expenditure ceiling, as some countries in the Council do.

This year, expenditure ceilings were issued to Ministries on recurrent budget after Cabinet's approval, in line with the Government's stated priorities.

Even though expenditure in a particular year may be limited by a cash limit or capital expenditure ceiling, such constraints do not reduce the importance of appraisal.

Firstly, we need to standardise administrative expenditure by including it entirely under this heading and carry out a suitable, realistic review of the expenditure ceiling.

It is important to recall that the draft budget for 2011 has been drawn up in a context of tight expenditure ceilings and national finances under severe pressure.

From that point of view, I understand the logic behind the European Parliament's so-called 'asterisk amendment' on the Recovery Plan going beyond the current expenditure ceiling.

In speaking about the European Parliament budget, I would firstly like to stress that a total expenditure ceiling will be set according to careful evaluation of justified needs.

This report includes an increase in the expenditure ceiling for the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the European Union's budget in 2012.

To give Parliament maximum room for manoeuvre, the rapporteur is seeking in 1999 to have the margins beneath the expenditure ceiling carried fully as reserves in the budget.