Regulation (EU) 2020/560 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2020 amending Regulations (EU) No 508/2014 and (EU) No 1379/2013 as regards specific measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID‐19 outbreak in the fishery and aquaculture sector

1 The resources available for commitments from the EMFF for the period from 2014 to 2020 under shared management shall be EUR 5749331600 in current prices, in accordance with the annual breakdown set out in Annex II.

2 EUR 580000000 of the budgetary resources referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allocated to the control and enforcement measures referred to in Article 76.

3 EUR 520000000 of the budgetary resources referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allocated to the measures on data collection referred to in Article 77.

4 EUR 192500000 of the budgetary resources referred to in paragraph 1 shall be allocated to the compensation of outermost regions under Chapter V of Title V. That compensation shall not exceed, per year: (a) EUR 6450000 for the Azores and Madeira; (b) EUR 8700000 for the Canary Islands; (c) EUR 12350000 for the French outermost regions referred to in Article 349 TFEU.

5 Member States shall have the possibility of using interchangeably the resources available under paragraphs 2 and 3.

6 10 % of the budgetary resources referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 may be allocated to measures related to the mitigation of the COVID‐19 outbreak.’;

1 The EMFF may support the following compensation schemes: (a) compensation to mollusc farmers for the temporary suspension of the harvesting of farmed molluscs, where such suspension occurs exclusively for reasons of public health; (b) granting working capital and compensation to aquaculture farmers. Compensation referred to in point (b) of the first subparagraph may be granted for the temporary suspension or reduction of production and sales or for the additional storage costs occurring between 1 February and 31 December 2020 as a consequence of the COVID‐19 outbreak.

2 Support under point (a) of paragraph 1 may only be granted where the suspension of harvesting due to the contamination of molluscs is the result of the proliferation of toxin‐producing plankton or the presence of plankton containing biotoxins, and provided that: (a) the contamination lasts for more than four consecutive months; or (b) the loss, resulting from the suspension of harvesting, amounts to more than 25 % of the annual turnover of the business concerned, calculated on the basis of the average turnover of that business over the three calendar years preceding the year in which the harvest was suspended. For the purposes of point (b) of the first subparagraph, Member States may establish special calculation rules in respect of companies with less than three years of activity.

3 The duration for which compensation under point (a) of paragraph 1 may be granted shall be a maximum of 12 months over the entire programming period. In duly justified cases, it may be extended once for a maximum of an additional 12 months up to a combined maximum of 24 months. In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 65(9) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 and by way of derogation from the first subparagraph thereof, expenditure for operations supported under point (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be eligible as of 1 February 2020.’;

Fishery and aquaculture producer organisations may receive financial support for the storage of products listed in Annex II or products falling within CN code 0302 as listed in point (a) of Annex I to this Regulation, provided that: (a) the conditions for storage aid, laid down in Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council , are complied with; (b) the products have been placed on the market by producer organisations and no buyer for them has been found at the trigger price referred to in Article 31; (c) where applicable, the products meet the common marketing standards established in accordance with Article 33 and are of adequate quality for human consumption; (d) the products are stabilised or processed and stored in tanks or cages, by way of freezing, either on board vessels or in land facilities, of salting, of drying, of marinating or, where relevant, of boiling and pasteurisation, whether or not the products are filleted, cut‐up or, where appropriate, headed; (e) aquaculture products are not stored alive; (f) the products are reintroduced from storage into the market for human consumption at a later stage, and (g) the products remain in storage for at least five days.

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