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Article 2

United Kingdom

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Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1655/2000 shall be amended as follows:

  1. 1..

    the heading ‘Duration of the third phase and budgetary resources’ shall be replaced by the heading ‘Duration of the third phase and funding’;

  2. 2..

    Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be replaced by the following:

    ‘1.

    LIFE shall be implemented in phases. The third phase shall start on 1 January 2000 and shall end on 31 December 2004. The financial framework for the implementation of the third phase for the period 2000 to 2004 is hereby set at EUR 649,9 million.

    2.

    The funding allocated to the actions provided for in this Regulation shall be entered in the annual appropriations of the general budget of the European Union. The available annual appropriations shall be authorised by the budgetary authority within the limits of the financial perspective.’