Technical adjustments
Article 6
1. Each year the Commission, acting ahead of the budgetary procedure for year n+1, shall make the following technical adjustments to the MFF: (a) revaluation, at year n+1 prices, of the ceilings and of the overall figures for appropriations for commitments and appropriations for payments; (b) calculation of the margin available under the own-resources ceiling set in accordance with Decision 2007/436/EC, Euratom; (c) calculation of the absolute amount of the Contingency Margin provided for in Article 13; (d) calculation of the global margin for payments provided for in Article 5; (e) calculation of the global margin for commitments provided for in Article 14. 2. The Commission shall make the technical adjustments referred to in paragraph 1 on the basis of a fixed deflator of 2 % per year. 3. The Commission shall communicate the results of the technical adjustments referred to in paragraph 1 and the underlying economic forecasts to the European Parliament and the Council. 4. Without prejudice to Article 7 and 8, no further technical adjustments shall be made in respect of the year concerned, either during the year or as ex-post corrections during subsequent years.