
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 883/2006 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. Article 4(3) is deleted;
2.. Article 8(3) is replaced by the following:
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3. If the total expenditure declared by the Member States for the following financial year exceeds three quarters of the total appropriations for the current financial year, the advance commitments referred to in Article 150(3) of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 and the corresponding monthly payments shall be granted in proportion to the declarations of expenditure, up to a maximum of 75 % of the appropriations for the current financial year. The Commission shall take the balance of amounts not reimbursed to the Member States into account in decisions on subsequent reimbursements.';
3.. Article 9(2)(b) is replaced by the following:
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((b)) in any case, payments made in the course of financial year N+2 and subsequent years shall be eligible for the Member State concerned only up to the level of:

((i)) its national ceiling as provided for in Annexes VIII or VIIIa to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 for the year preceding that of the financial year during which the payment is made, where the single payment scheme referred to in Title III of that Regulation applies, or
((ii)) its annual financial envelope established in accordance with Article 143b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 for the year preceding that of the financial year during which the payment is made, where the single area payment scheme referred to in that Article applies.
Where applicable, the national ceiling or annual financial envelope referred to in points (i) and (ii) shall be:

— reduced by the modulation provided for in Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003,
— reduced by the voluntary modulation provided for in Chapter 1 of Regulation (EC) No 378/2007,
— increased by the additional amount of aid provided for in Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003,
— increased by the additional amount of aid provided for in the second subparagraph of Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 378/2007,
— corrected by the adjustment provided for in Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
However, Article 1(1) shall apply from the 2009 financial year.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 22 May 2008.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission