Risk-based requirements for the reference trajectory
Article 6
The reference trajectory shall be risk-based and differentiated for each Member State, ensuring that: (a) by the end of the adjustment period, assuming that there are no further budgetary measures, the projected general government debt ratio is put or remains on a plausibly downward path, or stays at prudent levels below 60 % of GDP over the medium-term; (b) the projected general government deficit is brought below 3 % of GDP over the adjustment period and is maintained below that reference value over the medium-term assuming that there are no further budgetary measures; (c) the fiscal adjustment effort over the period of the national medium-term fiscal-structural plan is linear as a rule and at least proportional to the total effort over the entire adjustment period; and (d) there is consistency with the corrective path referred to in Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1467/97, where applicable.