Article 75
1. The amount of each individual legal commitment adopted by the Commission following a global commitment shall, prior to signature, be registered by the authorising officer responsible in the EDF accounts and booked to the global financial commitment. 2. The legal commitments entered into for actions extending over more than one financial year and the corresponding financial commitments shall have a final date for implementation set in accordance with the principle of sound financial management, save in the case of the administrative expenditure referred to in Article 69(3). Any parts of such commitments which have not been executed six months after that date shall be decommitted and the corresponding appropriations cancelled. The amount of a financial commitment corresponding to a legal commitment for which no payment has been made in a period of three years following the signing of the legal commitment shall be decommitted and the corresponding appropriations cancelled. 3. Paragraph 2 shall apply without prejudice to the decisions that the Council may adopt under Articles 96 and 97 of theœ ACP-EC Agreement.