The Council sets a deadline for addressing the situation (in principle one year from the detection of the excessive deficit, although several multiannual EDPs were launched in 2009 due to the financial and economic crisis).
Svet določi rok za odpravo razmer (načeloma eno leto od ugotovitve čezmernega primanjkljaja, vendar je bilo leta 2009 zaradi finančne in gospodarske krize začetih več večletnih postopkov EDP).