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 2015.

However, this Decision shall expire on the earlier day one of the following modifications to Directive 2003/96/EC becomes applicable:

• the general system for the taxation of energy products is modified in a manner to which the present authorisation is not adapted,

• France is authorised to apply differentiated levels of taxation at the level of the regions.