Article 2

This Decision shall take effect on the day of its notification.

It shall apply from 1 January 2013.

It shall expire on 31 December 2018.

However, should the Council, acting on the basis of Article 113 of the Treaty, introduce a modified general system for the taxation of energy products to which the authorisation granted in Article 1 of this Decision would not be adapted, this Decision shall expire on the day on which the rules on that modified system become applicable.