If by the end of 1997 the date of the beginning of the third stagehas not been set, the Member States concerned, the Community in-stitutionsandotherbodiesinvolvedshallexpediteallpreparatorywork during 1998, in order to enable the Community to enter thethird stage irrevocably on 1 January 1999 and to enable the ECBand the ESCB to start their full functioning from this date.
Mura mbeidh dáta an tríú céim socraithe faoi dheireadh 1997,brostóidh na Ballstáit i dtrácht, institiúidí an Chomhphobail aguscomhlachtaí leasmhara eile gach obair ullmhúcháin le linn 1998d’fhonn a chumasú don Chomhphobal trasdul go neamh-inchúl-ghairthe chuig an tríú céim ar an 1 Eanáir 1999 agus d’fhonn achumasú do BCE agus do CEBC tosú ar oibriú go hiomlán amhailón dáta sin.