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COUNCIL
FINANCIAL REGULATION
of18March1975
supplementing theFinancialRegulationof25April1973applicabletothe
generalbudgetoftheEuropeanCommunities
(75/184/Euratom,ECSC,EEC)
WhereastheprovisionsofthisFinancialRegulation
mustbeincludedintheFinancialRegulationof25
April1973(4)applicabletothegeneralbudgetofthe
EuropeanCommunities ,
HASADOPTEDTHISFINANCIAL REGULATION :
Article1
TheFinancialRegulationof25April1973applicable
tothegeneralbudgetoftheEuropeanCommunities
isherebysupplemented inaccordancewiththe
followingArticles.THECOUNCILOFTHEEUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES ,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishingtheEuropean
CoalandSteelCommunity ,andinparticularArticle
78(f)thereof;
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishingtheEuropean
EconomicCommunity ,andinparticularArticle209
thereof;
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishingtheEuropean
AtomicEnergyCommunity ,andinparticularArticle
183thereof;
HavingregardtotheproposalfromtheCommission ;
HavingregardtotheOpinionoftheEuropeanParlia­
ment(');
HavingregardtotheOpinionoftheEconomicand
SocialCommittee (2);
WhereastheCounciladoptedon18March1975a
Regulation(3)establishingaEuropeanRegionalDeve­
lopmentFund;
Whereasitisopportunetofixtheparticularproce­
dureconcerningappropriations andexpenditureof
thesaidFund;
Whereastherealizationoftheinvestments tobe
assistedbytheFundmayextendoverseveralyears;Article2
Article12(3)issupplemented byafifthindent
wordedasfollows:
'—atablelisting,fortheEuropeanRegional
Development Fund:
(a)astatementofcommitments andpayments
asat31Decemberoftheprecedingyear
andasat1Julyofthecurrentyear;
(b)ascheduleofduedatesforestimated
paymentstotheendofthecurrentyear;
(c)estimatedpaymentsforsubsequentfinan­
cialyears.'C)OJNoC108,10.12.1973,p.51.
(2)OJNoC8,31.1.1974,p.10.
(3)Seepage1ofthisOfficialJournal. (4)OJNoL116,1.5.1973,p.1.

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Article3
TitleXaassetoutbelowshallbeinsertedafterArticle
115:
TITLEXa
SpecialprovisionsapplicabletotheEuro­
peanRegionalDevelopment Fund
Article115a
TheprovisionsofTitlesItoVIinclusiveandXI
ofthisFinancialRegulationshallapplytothe
EuropeanRegionalDevelopment Fundsaveas
otherwiseprovidedbythespecialprovisionsof
thisTitle.
Article115b
1.ThebudgetoftheEuropeanCommunities
forafinancialyearshallshowundertheTitlefor
theFundforthefinancialyearconcerned :
(a)commitmentappropriations ;and
(b)paymentappropriations .
2.Commitment appropriations shallrepresent
theupperlimitofexpendituretowhichtheCommissionmaycommititselffortheimplemen­
tationofthecorresponding operations .
Commitment appropriations whicharenotused
bytheendofthefinancialyearforwhichtheyare
showninthebudgetshallremainavailableduring
thefollowingtwofinancialyears.
3.Commitment appropriations shallrepresent
theupperlimitofexpenditurewhichmaybeauth­
orizedorpaidduringeachfinancialyeartocover
commitmentsenteredintoduringthesamefinan­
cialyearorprecedingyears.
Article115c
DecisionstograntassistancethroughtheFund
takenbytheCommissiononrequestsbythe
MemberStates,shallbeconsideredascommit­
mentsofexpenditurefortheFund.'
Article4
ThisFinancialRegulationshallenterintoforceonthe
dayfollowingitspublicationintheOfficialJournal
oftheEuropeanCommunities .
ThisFinancialRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicableinall
MemberStates.
DoneatBrussels,18March1975.
FortheCouncil
ThePresident
R.RYAN