Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/702 of 10 December 2020 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2195 on supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1304/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund, regarding the definition of standard scales of unit costs and lump sums for reimbursement of expenditure by the Commission to Member States

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2195 is amended as follows: (1) In Article 3, the following paragraphs are added: ‘Where the relevant conditions for reimbursement by the Commission as defined in the Annexes could not be fulfilled due to the restrictions imposed or recommendations issued by the competent authorities in Member States to delay the spread of the coronavirus, the Commission may reimburse Member States based on inputs, outputs or results achieved by remote means. For those operations referred to in the second paragraph, the obligation set out in the Annexes to use a simplified cost option for all similar types of operations under the same operational programme shall not apply.’ (2) Annex II is replaced by the text in Annex I to this Regulation. (3) Annex III is replaced by the text in Annex II to this Regulation. (4) Annex V is replaced by the text in Annex III to this Regulation. (5) Annex VI is replaced by the text in Annex IV to this Regulation. (6) Annex VIII is replaced by the text in Annex V to this Regulation. (7) Annex X is replaced by the text in Annex VI to this Regulation. (8) Annex XI is replaced by the text in Annex VII to this Regulation. (9) Annex XII is replaced by the text in Annex VIII to this Regulation. (10) Annex XIV is replaced by the text in Annex IX to this Regulation. (11) Annex XV is replaced by the text in Annex X to this Regulation. (12) Annex XVI is replaced by the text in Annex XI to this Regulation. (13) Annex XXI is replaced by the text in Annex XII to this Regulation.

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