The foundation helps the school do things beyond the scope of the ordinary budget to benefit students."

Spending decisions "have to await the completion of our ordinary budget cycle," he said.

"If we just left it to the ordinary budget process, we got cut off at the knees right at the first level," he said.

The revenue generated by sin taxes is sometimes used for special projects, but might also be used in the ordinary budget.

Many of the states that have emerged from authoritarian rule depend on Western governments to cover the costs of their elections and ordinary budget items.

In all these three cases, we also believe that, in order to produce new resources during the current budget year, ordinary budget procedure must be followed.

Firstly, the fact that the work of the European Development Fund could be made considerably easier if it were incorporated in the ordinary budget.

First of all, so far, the European Development Fund has not been part of the EU's ordinary budget.

But authority borrowing soon became a convenient device for evading voter approval on all sorts of projects, and for borrowing to cover ordinary budget expenses.

The EDF should be incorporated into the EU's ordinary budget work where Parliament also has insight and influence.

Perhaps it is time we realised that alongside the ordinary budget, we need an extraordinary budget to make loans financed by a major European loan, which would permit investment.

Just like a number of other speakers, I should like to see the EUR 350 million talked about by Mr Barroso this morning take the form of fresh money rather than be extracted from the ordinary budget.

One way of doing this would, in actual fact, be to ensure that the European Development Fund, or EDF, was incorporated into the ordinary budget, something which we in Parliament have always demanded.

But lawmakers raised objections to each budget, complaining that spending under the development budget was not evenly distributed around the country and that the ordinary budget was not fair to civil servants, who earn $40 a month.

In addition to the ordinary budget, Finance Minister Basil Jardana presented an emergency budget of JD120,000,000 aimed at increasing the capacity of the national economy to enable it to deal with effects of the Gulf crisis.

Concerning the other question, I would point out that one of the problems confronting us is that ECHO's ordinary budget is exhausted by half way through the year, and a whole series of unforeseen disasters compels us to engage in very lengthy and cumbersome procedures to mobilise the reserve.