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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§2263 United States contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization common-funded budgets

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter CHAPTER 134— - MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY › § 2263

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense may contribute more than the fiscal year 1998 baseline limit for U.S. payments to NATO’s common-funded budgets in any fiscal year. Common-funded budgets: the Military Budget, the Security Investment Program, and the Civil Budget of NATO (and any successor or additional account or program). Fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation: the annual cap set in the Senate resolution approving the Protocols for Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, approved April 30, 1998.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2263

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(a)The total amount contributed by the Secretary of Defense in any fiscal year for the common-funded budgets of NATO may be an amount in excess of the maximum amount that would otherwise be applicable to those contributions in such fiscal year under the fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation.
(b)In this section:
(1)The term “common-funded budgets of NATO” means the Military Budget, the Security Investment Program, and the Civil Budget of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (and any successor or additional account or program of NATO).
(2)The term “fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation” means the maximum annual amount of Department of Defense contributions for common-funded budgets of NATO that is set forth as the annual limitation in section 3(2)(C)(ii) of the resolution of the Senate giving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic (as defined in section 4(7) of that resolution), approved by the Senate on April 30, 1998.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The resolution of ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic approved by the Senate on April 30, 1998, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), was adopted in the 105th Congress and is not classified to the Code. See Cong. Rec., vol. 144, pt. 5, p. 7555, Apr. 30, 1998.

Amendments

2017—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 115–91 redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which required annual reports on contributions to the common-funded budgets of NATO.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title X, § 1004(b), Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4583, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [enacting this section] shall take effect on October 1, 2008, and shall apply to fiscal years that begin on or after that date.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2263

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73