Chapter IV, Article 8 · Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2021/770

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Article 8Making available the own resource based on non-recycled plastic packaging waste#

1.The amounts calculated in accordance with Article 6 for each calendar year shall be credited on the first working day of each month. Those amounts shall be one-twelfth of the relevant totals in the budget, converted into national currencies at the rate of exchange on the last day of quotation of the calendar year preceding the budget year, as published in the Official Journal of the European Union, C series.

2.The amounts referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be entered in the account referred to in Article 9(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 609/2014 on the first working day of the month.

3.Any change in the uniform call rate of the own resource based on non-recycled plastic packaging waste shall require the final adoption of an amending budget and shall give rise to readjustments of the twelfths that have been entered in the account referred to in Article 9(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 609/2014 since the beginning of the financial year.Those readjustments shall be carried out when the first entry is made following the final adoption of the amending budget if it is adopted before the 16th of the month. Otherwise they shall be carried out when the second entry following the final adoption is made. By way of derogation from Article 10 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note, those readjustments shall be entered in the accounts in respect of the financial year of the amending budget in question.

4.Calculation of the twelfths for January of each financial year shall be based on the amounts provided for in the draft budget, referred to in Article 314(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of European Union and converted into national currencies at the rate of exchange on the first day of quotation following 15 December of the calendar year preceding the budget year; the adjustment shall be made with the entry for the following month.

5.If the budget has not been finally adopted at the latest two weeks before the entry for January of the following financial year, the Member States shall enter on the first working day of each month, including January, one-twelfth of the amounts of the own resource based on non-recycled plastic packaging waste entered in the last budget finally adopted; the adjustment shall be made on the first due date following the final adoption of the budget if it is adopted before the 16th of the month. Otherwise, the adjustment shall be made on the second due date following the final adoption of the budget.