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 ir revocably 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 gniomhú di d'aon toil na mBallstát gan mhaolú, ar thogra ón gCoimisiún agus tar éis dui i gcomhairle le BCE, na rátaí comhshó ar a mbeidh a gcuid airgeadra! socraithe go neamhinchúlghairthe agus an rata socraithe go neamhinchúlghairthe ar a gcuirfear an tECU ín ionad na n-airgeadraí sin, agus tiocfaidh an tECU chun bheith ina airgeadra dilis ó cheart.