Under the Lisbon Treaty the budget as a whole must be adopted jointly by the European Parliament and the Council: the current distinction between "compulsory" (mainly agricultural) expenditure on which the Council used to have the last say and "non-compulsory" expenditure (on which the EP had the last say) is abolished.
Pašreizējais sadalījums „obligātie izdevumi” (galvenokārt lauksaimniecībā), kur pēdējais vārds piederēja Padomei, un „neobligātie izdevumi” (kur pēdējais vārds bija Parlamentam), tiks atcelts.