Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/694 of 15 February 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the form of financing which is not linked to costs of the relevant operations

1 This Regulation establishes detailed modalities for financing conditions that may be used for the reimbursement of expenditure by the managing authority to beneficiaries under the financing which is not linked to costs of the relevant operations referred to in point (e) of the first subparagraph of Article 67(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 and for their application.

2 The areas of expenditure that may be subject to financing which is not linked to costs shall be energy efficiency measures and energy from renewable sources as detailed in the Annex.

For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘financing conditions’ means the conditions to be fulfilled for the reimbursement of expenditure under the financing which is not linked to costs, consisting of a series of intermediate and final financing conditions undertaken to contribute towards the fulfilment of a pre-defined objective; (2) ‘operation subject to reimbursement based on financing conditions’ means a single operation within the meaning of Article 2(9) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, consisting of all the tasks implemented to fulfil intermediate and the final financing conditions.

1 Final financing conditions shall be determined in accordance with the Annex.

2 Modalities for the application of the financing conditions as regards the methodology for the establishment of the related pre-defined amount of expenditure to be reimbursed and the submission of information to the Commission for the set up of the operation subject to reimbursement based on financing conditions shall be determined in accordance with the Annex.

1 The costs calculated on the applicable basis to be included in a payment application in accordance with Article 131(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 shall be the pre-defined amount corresponding to each fulfilled financing condition. That amount shall be included in payment applications together with the reference of the concerned operation, in accordance with the model for payment applications set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1011/2014 .

2 The total eligible expenditure for an operation subject to reimbursement based on financing conditions shall not exceed the pre-defined amount of expenditure corresponding to the final financing condition calculated on the basis of the methodologies set out in the Annex.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.