Article 1
Open ↗Decision 2003/76/EC is amended as follows: (1) in Article 4, paragraphs 4 and 5 are replaced by the following: ‘4. Unused revenue and appropriations deriving from this revenue still available on 31 December in any given year, as well as amounts recovered, shall be carried over automatically to the following year. Those appropriations may not be transferred to other budget items. 5. Budgetary appropriations corresponding to cancellations of commitments shall automatically lapse at the end of each financial year. Provisions for commitments released as a result of the cancellations shall be made available to the Research Fund for Coal and Steel.’; (2) the following Article is inserted: ‘Article 4a The amount corresponding to cancellations of commitments made since 24 July 2002 pursuant to Article 4(5) shall be made available to the Research Fund for Coal and Steel on 10 May 2018.’.