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Council Regulation (EC) No 215/2008 PART THREE — TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 153–Article 159 · 7 articles

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TITLE I — TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1 — Transfer of balances remaining from previous EDFs

Article 153

Transfers to the 10th EDF of the balances remaining from resources constituted under the Internal Agreements relating to the seventh  ( 15 ) , eighth  ( 16 ) and Ninth  ( 17 ) EDFs (hereinafter previous EDFs) shall be made in accordance with Article 1(2)(b), (3) and (4) of the Internal Agreement.

Article 154

The balance of revenue accruing from interest on the resources of previous EDFs shall be transferred to the 10th EDF and allocated for the same purposes as the revenue provided for in Article 1(6) of the Internal Agreement. The same shall apply to miscellaneous revenue of previous EDFs comprising, for example, default interest received in the event of late payment of contributions to those EDFs by Member States and the interest generated by the EDF resources managed by the EIB.

CHAPTER 2 — Balances remaining from previous EDFs

Article 155

The amounts from projects under the Ninth EDF or from previous EDFs not committed according to Article 1(3) of the Internal Agreement, or decommitted unless decided otherwise by the Council unanimously according to Article 1(4) of the Internal Agreement, shall reduce the part of Member States contributions stated in Article 1(2)(a) of the Internal Agreement. The impact on the contribution of each Member State shall be calculated in proportion to the contribution of each Member State to the Ninth EDF. The impact will be calculated annually and for the first time in the year following the performance review of 2010 foreseen in Annex 1b of the ACP-EC Agreement.

CHAPTER 3 — Rules applicable for the implementation of previous EDFs

Article 156

The provisions of the 10th EDF concerning the financial actors, revenue operations, validation, authorisation and payment of expenditure, IT systems, the presentation of accounts and accounting, as well as external audit and discharge also apply to operations financed from previous EDFs.

CHAPTER 4 — Transitional period

Article 157

The procedure concerning Member States' contributions laid down in Articles 57 to 61 shall apply for the first time for the contributions of the year N + 2, under condition that the 10th EDF enters into force between 1 October of year N and 30th September of year N + 1.

Article 158

The central database referred to in Article 98 shall be set up by 1 January 2009.

TITLE II — FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 159

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

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