Pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999, each plan, Community support framework, operational programme and single programming document shall cover a period of seven years, and the programming period shall begin on 1 January 2000. In the interests of cohesiveness and to avoid discrimination between beneficiaries of the same programme, the derogations provided for in this Regulation must, exceptionally, be applicable to the whole programming period.
Na podlagi člena 14 Uredbe (ES) št. 1260/1999 mora vsak načrt, okvir podpore Skupnosti, operativni program in enotni programski dokument zajemati obdobje sedmih let, programsko obdobje pa se začne 1. januarja 2000. Da se zagotovi doslednost in prepreči diskriminacija med upravičenci istega programa, morajo biti odstopanja, ki jih predvideva ta uredba, izjemoma mogoča za celotno programsko obdobje.