Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 is amended as follows:

1. 1..

   Article 7(3) is amended as follows:

   1. (a)

      the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:

      ‘After checking revise programmes referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 the Commission shall decide, no later than 31 May and 15 December, which programmes it may part-finance under the indicative budgets listed in Annex III to this Regulation, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000.’;

   2. (b)

      in the second subparagraph, the first sentence is deleted.

2. 2..

   Article 8 is replaced by the following:

   ‘Article 8

   Where Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 is applied, the provisional list of programmes shall be communicated to the Commission no later than 15 March and 30 September each year.

   The Commission shall decide which programmes it will part-finance under the indicative budgets given in Annex III to this Regulation no later than 31 May and 15 December of the same year, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000.’