Ceiling on federal primary expenses, set individually for a period of twenty financial years from 2017 onwards, for the Executive Branch, the STF, the STJ, the CNJ, the Labor Court, the Federal Court, the Military Court of the Union, the Electoral Court and the Court of the Federal District and Territories, the SF, the CD, the TCU, the MPU, the CNMP and the DPU. This is a mechanism for controlling the Union's public spending, calculated based on the limits of the budget of the immediately previous year, corrected for inflation (variation in the Broad National Consumer Price Index - IPCA) measured between July of one year and June of the year. next year.

• EC nº 95/2016.
• See also: Budget Expenditure Primary It is Primary Outcome Target.
• Synonym: Spending Ceiling.