CHAPTER XIVFINAL PROVISIONS
Article 70Transitional period and budget
1
Alerts shall be transferred from SIS 1+ to SIS II. The Member States shall ensure, giving priority to alerts on persons, that the contents of the alerts that are transferred from SIS 1+ to SIS II satisfy the provisions of this Decision as soon as possible and within three years after the date referred to in Article 71(2) at the latest. During this transitional period, the Member States may continue to apply the provisions of Articles 94, 95, and 97-100 of the Schengen Convention to the contents of the alerts that are transferred from SIS 1+ to SIS II subject to the following rules:
a
in the event of a modification of, an addition to or a correction or update of the content of an alert transferred from SIS 1+ to SIS II, the Member States shall ensure that the alert satisfies the provisions of this Decision as from the time of that modification, addition, correction or update;
b
in the event of a hit on an alert transferred from SIS 1+ to SIS II, the Member States shall examine the compatibility of that alert with the provisions of this Decision immediately but without delaying the action to be taken on the basis of that alert.
2
The remainder of the budget at the date set in accordance with Article 71(2), which has been approved in accordance with the provisions of Article 119 of the Schengen Convention, shall be paid back to the Member States. The amounts to be repaid shall be calculated on the basis of the contributions from the Member States as laid down in the Decision of the Executive Committee of 14 December 1993 on the financial regulation on the costs of installing and operating the Schengen Information System.
3
During the transitional period referred to in Article 15(4), references in this Decision to the Management Authority shall be construed as references to the Commission.