
Article 1 
Decision 2000/819/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1.. in Article 7(1), the financial reference amount of ‘EUR 450 million’ shall be replaced by ‘EUR 538 500 000’;
2.. in Article 8, the date of 31 December 2005 shall be replaced by that of 31 December 2006.
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Strasbourg, 28 September 2005.
For the European Parliament
The President
J. BORRELL FONTELLES
For the Council
The President
D. ALEXANDER