Fællesskabets årlige budget viser således, hvilke resultater der forventes af det indre marked, EU's forskningspolitik, handelen med tredjelande, strukturfondene og den fælles landbrugspolitik.
Everything that the Community intends to translate into the internal market, into its research community, into an external trade system, into the Structural Funds and into the common agricultural policy is laid out for all to see in the annual budget.