Vaststelling van de begrotingsstaten van het Ministerie van Defensie (X) voor het jaar 2016

This is a Dutch parliamentary procedure, held in the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives), to formally adopt the budget statements (begrotingsstaten) of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2016. The budget statement sets out the planned spending and revenue for the ministry's programmes, and adopting it gives the government legal authority to spend these funds during the fiscal year. The title is based on metadata only, so the exact figures and amendments are not reflected here. The procedure mainly affects the Ministry of Defence and the armed forces, whose funding and planned activities for 2016 are set by this budget. It also matters to taxpayers and to parliament, which exercises budgetary oversight over defence spending.