Merchants accepting debit cards would then not be forced to accept credit cards, and those accepting credit cards would not be forced to accept commercial cards.

Merchants accepting debit cards would then not be forced to accept credit cards, and those accepting credit cards would not be forced to accept commercial cards.

Merchants accepting debit cards would then not be forced also to accept credit cards, and those accepting credit cards would not be forced to accept commercial cards.

13. Agrees to a 3.5% increase in payment appropriations over the 2000 budget; agrees to rebudget for 2002 and subsequent years an amount of € 1600 million in commitment appropriations for Community initiative programmes, under paragraph 17 of the Interinstitutional Agreement; accepts the fact that, therefore, payment appropriations for the 2001 budget in heading 2 will be € 700 million lower than projected in the preliminary draft general budget; notes that the reduction will be made against the payment appropriations of the Community Initiatives, as agreed by Parliament and the Council at the conciliation meeting, and requests the Co ...[+++]mmission to present a supplementary budget for payment appropriations if, in the course of the implementation of the 2001 budget, that becomes necessary;

(b)applications for further funding sent to the Commission under Article 16(1)(c) by the Member States not referred to in point (a) of this paragraph shall be accepted on a pro rata basis by using the available appropriations once the amounts for all Member States notified under Article 16(1)(a) and (b) and accepted and the total of the amounts accepted under point (a) of this paragraph have together been deducted.

1. If, on 5 February 1993, a credit institution had already incurred an exposure or exposures exceeding either the large exposure limit or the aggregate large exposure limit laid down in Article 49, the competent authorities shall require the credit institution concerned to take steps to have that exposure or those exposures brought within the limits laid down in Article 49.