Article 7
1. Expenditure relating to multiannual commitments other than those for agri-environment and animal welfare with payments to be made after the final date of eligibility for expenditure of the current programming period shall be eligible under the EAFRD in the new programming period. 2. Expenditure referred to in paragraph 1 shall be eligible under the EAFRD in the new programming period from: (a) the final date of eligibility for expenditure of the current programming period, where payments continue after that date; or (b) a date earlier than the date referred to in point (a) but after 1 January 2007, where the amount allocated to the programme and/or measure has already been used up. Rural development programmes for the new programming period must make a provision for expenditure referred to in the first subparagraph.