Detailed arrangements for annual payment
Article 5
1. A Member State may request an annual payment between 1 January and 30 June of the year N+1. 2. The annual payment shall be payable if the conditions laid down in Article 61(3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 were fulfilled in year N. The central national authority may request financing for category 2 of operational staff only if the Member State concerned provided the complete reporting to the Agency for the purpose of verifying the amounts due in accordance with Article 61 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896. 3. The annual payment shall include one or more of the following: (a) amounts laid down in Article 61(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896, calculated as 100 % of the reference amount multiplied by the number of operational staff indicated for the year N+2 for secondment in accordance with Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 (‘financing for category 2’); (b) amounts laid down in Article 61(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896, calculated as 37 % of the reference amount multiplied by the number of operational staff effectively deployed in accordance with Article 57 within the limit set in Annex III and in accordance with Article 58 within the limit set in Annex IV, as applicable (‘financing for categories 3 and 4’); (c) amounts laid down in Article 61(1)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896, calculated as a one-off payment of 50 % of the reference amount multiplied by the number of operational staff recruited by the Agency as statutory staff who departed from national services (‘financing for category 1’).