54As a preliminary point, the Court notes, as the Advocate General observed in point 7 of his Opinion, that it follows from the third paragraph of Article 268 EC, which provides that the revenue and expenditure shown in the budget must be in balance, that shortfalls in revenues of own resources must be offset either by another own resource or by an adjustment of expenditure.
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