8.3.2007 Official Journal of the European Union L 68/5 COUNCIL DECISION of 5 March 2007 amending Decision 2000/265/EC on the establishment of a financial regulation governing the budgetary aspects of the management by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Council, of contracts concluded in his name, on behalf of certain Member States, relating to the installation and the functioning of the communication infrastructure or the Schengen environment (‘SISNET’) (2007/155/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Protocol integrating the Schengen acquis into the framework of the European Union, annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular first sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 2(1) thereof, Whereas: The Deputy Secretary-General of the Council was authorised by Decision 1999/870/EC (') and Decision 2007/149[EC () to act, in the context of the integration of the Schengen acquis within the European Union, as representative of certain Member States for the purposes of concluding contracts relating to the instal- lation and the functioning of the communication infra- structure for the Schengen environment (‘SISNET’) and to manage such contracts, pending the migration to a communication infrastructure at the charge of the European Community. The financial obligations arising under those contracts are borne by a specific budget (hereinafter ‘the SISNET budget’) financing the communication infrastructure referred to in those Council Decisions. The new Member States, within the meaning of the 2003 Act of Accession, with the exception of Cyprus, are to be integrated into the first generation Schengen Information System (SIS 1+) on a date to be set by the Council in accordance with Article 3(2) of the 2003 Act of Accession, (hereinafter the ‘SISone4ALL project). From that date, those Member States should participate in the budget. Two Member States, Ireland and the United Kingdom, which contribute to the SISNET budget, but which are not connected to the Schengen Information System, should not contribute to additional costs entailed by the SISone4ALL project, () O] L 337, 30.12.1999, p. 41. () O] L 66, 6.3.2007, p. 19. HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: Article 1 Decision 2000/265/EC (%) is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 1 shall be replaced by the following: ‘Article 1 1. For the purposes of this Financial Regulation, the budget is the instrument which sets out forecasts of, and authorises in advance, for each financial year, the revenue and expenditure required to meet the obligations arising under the contracts referred to in Decision 1999/870/EC and Decision 2007/149/EC (¥). 2. For the purposes of this Financial Regulation, the reference to “SISNET” comprises the Communication infra- structure for the Schengen environment as referred to in Decision 1999/870/EC and Decision 2007/149/EC. (* O] L 66, 6.3.2007, p. 19.; . Article 25(1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. Budget revenue shall consist of financial contributions from the following Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, as well as Norway and Iceland.’; . A new sentence shall be added to Article 26: ‘The additional costs resulting from the extension of the communication infrastructure to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia shall not be borne by Ireland or the United Kingdom.’; O] L 85, 6.4.2000, p. 12. Decision as last amended by Decision 2003/171[EC (O] L 69, 13.3.2003, p. 25).