Regulation (EU) 2021/177 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 February 2021 amending Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 as regards the introduction of specific measures for addressing the crisis associated with the outbreak of COVID-19

‘2 With the exception of additional resources allocated in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, as referred to in Article 6a, the allocation of the Fund for the period 2014–2020 for every Member State is set out in Annex III. The minimum amount for each Member State shall be EUR 3500000 for the whole period.’;

1 Where the Member State considers it to be appropriate, the resources referred to in Article 6(1) of this Regulation shall be increased in response to the crisis associated with the outbreak of COVID-19, in accordance with the seventh subparagraph of Article 92b(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and under the relevant conditions laid down in that paragraph. The additional resources shall constitute external assigned revenue as referred to in Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EU) 2020/2094 and shall be subject to Article 3(3), (4), (7) and (9) thereof. The additional resources may affect the budget commitments for 2021 and 2022.

2 By way of derogation from Article 7(1), the period for operational programmes benefitting from additional resources in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article shall be until 31 December 2022.

3 By way of derogation from the first paragraph of Article 38 of this Regulation, the budget commitments for the additional resources in respect of each programme shall be made in the years 2021 and 2022. By way of derogation from Article 59(1) of this Regulation, the budget commitments for the additional resources shall be decommitted in accordance with the rules to be followed for the closure of the programmes.

4 In addition to the pre-financing referred to in Article 44(1), the Commission shall pay a pre-financing amount of 11 % of the additional resources allocated for the year 2021 following the Commission decision approving the amendment to a programme for the allocation of the additional resources. The amount paid as initial pre-financing as referred to in the first subparagraph shall be totally cleared from the Commission accounts not later than when the programme is closed.

5 By way of derogation from Article 20, a co-financing rate of up to 100 % may be applied to the additional resources under paragraph 1 of this Article.

Article 6a shall not apply to or in the United Kingdom. References to Member States in that Article shall be understood as not including the United Kingdom.’.

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