Article 1
Open ↗Bulgaria fulfils the conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2020/672.
Source
Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1343 of 25 September 2020 on granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to the Republic of Bulgaria to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak
Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1343 of 25 September 2020 on granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to the Republic of Bulgaria to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak
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Article 2
Open ↗1. The Union shall make available to Bulgaria a loan amounting to a maximum of EUR 511 000 000. The loan shall have a maximum average maturity of 15 years. 2. The availability period for financial assistance granted by this Decision shall be 18 months starting from the first day after this Decision has taken effect. 3. The Union financial assistance shall be made available by the Commission to Bulgaria in a maximum of eight instalments. An instalment may be disbursed in one or several tranches. The maturities of the tranches under the first instalment may be longer than the maximum average maturity referred to in paragraph 1. In such cases, the maturities of further tranches shall be set so that the maximum average maturity referred to in paragraph 1 is respected once all instalments have been disbursed. 4. The first instalment shall be released subject to the entry into force of the loan agreement provided for in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EU) 2020/672. 5. Bulgaria shall pay the cost of the funding of the Union referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2020/672 for each instalment plus any fees, costs and expenses of the Union resulting from any funding related to the loan granted under paragraph 1 of this Article. 6. The Commission shall decide on the size and release of instalments, as well as on the size of the tranches.
Article 3
Open ↗Bulgaria may finance the following measures: (a) wage subsidies to undertakings as provided for in ‘Decree No 55 of 30 March 2020 of the Council of Ministers’; (b) wage subsidies to undertakings as provided for in ‘Decree No 151 of 3 July 2020 of the Council of Ministers’.
Article 4
Open ↗Bulgaria shall inform the Commission by 30 March 2021, and every six months thereafter of the implementation of the planned public expenditure until that planned public expenditure has been fully implemented.
Article 5
Open ↗This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Bulgaria. This Decision shall take effect on the date of its notification to the addressee.
Article 6
Open ↗This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union .
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