Article 1
Council Decision 2000/265/EC ( 4 ) is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 25(1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. Budget revenue shall consist of financial contributions from the following Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.’; 2. Article 26 shall be replaced by the following: ‘Article 26 The states referred to in Article 25 shall supply their financial contributions to the Deputy Secretary-General. The scale of contributions to be paid by the Member States referred to in Article 25, on the one hand, and by Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, on the other hand, shall be calculated annually on the basis of the share of each Member State concerned and of Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, in the total gross domestic product (GDP) for the preceding year of all the States referred to in Article 25. The scale of contributions by the Member States concerned shall be calculated annually, taking into account the contributions of Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, on the basis of the ratio of the VAT resources paid by each of those Member States to the total VAT resources of the European Communities, as established in the last amendment of the budget of the Union during the preceding financial year. The additional costs resulting from the extension of the communication infrastructure to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia shall not be borne by Ireland or the United Kingdom.’; 3. the following paragraph shall be added to Article 28: ‘4. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, and without prejudice to Article 49, Switzerland shall be required to pay its initial contribution by 1 July 2008.’.