At the starting date of the third stage, the Council shall, acting with the unanimity of the Member States without a derogation, on a proposal from the Commission and after consulting the ECB, adopt the conversion rates at which their currencies shall be irrevocably fixed and at which irrevocably fixed rate the ecu shall be substituted for these currencies, and the ecu will become a currency in its own right.
Ar dháta tosaithe an tríú céim, glacfaidh an Chomhairle, ag gníomhú di d'aon toil na mBallstát gan mhaolú, ar thogra ón gCoimisiún agus tar éis dul i gcomhairle le BCE, na rátaí comhshó ar a mbeidh a gcuid airgeadraí socraithe go neamh in c h ú l g h air the agus an ráta socraithe go neamh in c h ú l g h air the ar a gcuirfear an tECU in ionad nan airgeadraí sin, agus tiocfaidh an tECU chun bheith ina airgeadra dílis ó cheart.