Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 is amended as follows:
(1)
Article 24 is replaced by the following:
‘Article 24
Increase in payments for Member State with temporary budgetary difficulties
1. On the request of a Member State, interim payments may be increased by 10 percentage points above the co-financing rate applicable to each priority for the ERDF, ESF and the Cohesion Fund or to each measure for the EAFRD and the EMFF.
If a Member State meets one of the following conditions after 21 December 2013, the increased rate, which may not exceed 100 %, shall apply to its payment applications for the period until 30 June 2016:
(a)
where the Member State concerned receives a loan from the Union under Regulation (EU) No 407/2010;
(b)
where the Member State concerned receives medium-term financial assistance in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 332/2002 conditional on the implementation of a macroeconomic adjustment programme;
(c)
where financial assistance is made available to the Member State concerned conditional on the implementation of a macroeconomic adjustment programme as specified in Regulation (EU) No 472/2013.
If a Member State meets one of the conditions set out in the second subparagraph after 30 June 2016, the increased rate shall apply to its payment applications for the period until 30 June of the year following the calendar year in which the related financial assistance comes to an end.
This paragraph shall not apply to programmes under the ETC Regulation.
2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, Union support through interim payments and payments of the final balance shall not be higher than:
(a)
the public expenditure; or
(b)
the maximum amount of support from the ESI Funds for each priority for the ERDF, ESF and the Cohesion Fund, or for each measure for the EAFRD and the EMFF, as laid down in the decision of the Commission approving the programme,
whichever is lower.’;
(2)
in Article 120(3), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
‘For the period from 1 January 2014 until closure of the operational programme the co-financing rate at the level of each priority axis for all operational programmes in Cyprus shall not be higher than 85 %.’.