CHAPTER 1General provisions
Article 6Technical adjustments
1
Each year the Commission, acting ahead of the budgetary procedure for year n+1, shall make the following technical adjustments to the MFF:
a
revaluation, at year n+1 prices, of the ceilings and of the overall figures for appropriations for commitments and appropriations for payments;
b
calculation of the margin available under the own-resources ceiling set in accordance with Decision 2007/436/EC, Euratom;
c
calculation of the absolute amount of the Contingency Margin provided for in Article 13;
d
calculation of the global margin for payments provided for in Article 5;
e
calculation of the global margin for commitments provided for in Article 14F1;
F2f
calculation of the amounts to be made available to the Flexibility Instrument under the second subparagraph of Article 11(1).
2
The Commission shall make the technical adjustments referred to in paragraph 1 on the basis of a fixed deflator of 2 % per year.
3
The Commission shall communicate the results of the technical adjustments referred to in paragraph 1 and the underlying economic forecasts to the European Parliament and the Council.
4
Without prejudice to Article 7 and 8, no further technical adjustments shall be made in respect of the year concerned, either during the year or as ex-post corrections during subsequent years.