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Without prejudice to paragraph 6, the balance of the budgetary commitment shall be decommitted 12 months following the payment. The closure of the operational programme shall be on the date of the earliest of the following three events: the payment of the final balance determined by the Commission on the basis of the documents referred to in paragraph 1; the sending of a debit note for sums unduly paid by the Commission to the Member State in respect of the operational programme; the decommitment of the final balance of the budgetary commitment. The Commission shall inform the Member State about the date of the closure of the operational programme within a deadline of two months.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.