1 , fjerde led , betyder , at en Medlemsstat over en periode på et år før undersøgelsen har haft en gennemsnitlig langfristet nominel rentesats , som ikke overstiger den tilsvarende rentesats i de højst tre Medlemsstater , der har nået de bedste resultater med hensyn til prisstabilitet , med mere end 2 procentpoint .
Article 4 of Protocol No. 6 of the Treaty stipulates : The criterion on the con vergence of interest rates referred to in the fourth indent of Article 109j ( 1 ) of this Treaty shall mean that , observed over a period of one year before the examination , a Member State has had an average nominal long-term interest rate that does not exceed by more than 2 percentage points that of , at most , the three best-performing Member States in terms of price stability .