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Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 March 2023 - onwards
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Article 23 Commitment of the financial contribution

1. Once the Council has adopted an implementing decision as referred to in Article 20(1), the Commission shall conclude an agreement with the Member State concerned constituting an individual legal commitment within the meaning of the Financial Regulation. For each Member State the legal commitment shall not exceed the total of the financial contribution referred to in point (a) of Article 11(1) for 2021 and 2022, the updated financial contribution referred to in Article 11(2) for 2023 and the amount calculated under Article 21a(2).

2. Budgetary commitments may be based on global commitments and, where appropriate, may be broken down into annual instalments spread over several years.