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Article 15Budgetary procedure and implementation#
1.Where the Commission has concluded that the conditions for providing a financial contribution from the EGF are met, it shall submit a proposal to mobilise the EGF to the European Parliament and to the Council. The decision to mobilise the EGF shall be taken jointly by the European Parliament and the Council within six weeks of the submission of the Commission’s proposal to them.At the same time as it submits its proposal for a decision to mobilise the EGF, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and to the Council a proposal for a transfer to the relevant budgetary lines.Transfers related to the EGF shall be made in accordance with Article 31 of the Financial Regulation.
2.The Commission shall adopt a decision on a financial contribution, which shall enter into force on the date on which the Commission is notified of the approval of the budgetary transfer by the European Parliament and the Council.That decision shall constitute a financing decision within the meaning of Article 110 of the Financial Regulation.
3.A proposal by the Commission for a decision to mobilise the EGF pursuant to paragraph 1 shall include the following:
(a)the assessment carried out in accordance with Article 8(6) or Article 8a(11), together with a summary of the information on which that assessment is based; and
(b)the reasons for the amounts proposed in accordance with Article 13(1).
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