Combined funding and coordination of support between the financing mechanism and other Union or national instruments
Article 24
Open ↗1. Projects may be financed through combined funding from the mechanism and from other Union or national, public or private, programmes and/or instruments insofar as those national public mechanisms are in compliance with State Aid legislation, and the same costs are not financed twice by the Union budget. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1: (a) the mechanism may coordinate its work programmes and award procedure, including the schedule and the application process and monitoring, with the work programmes for other Union or national funds; (b) combination of support from the mechanism and from other Union instruments or programmes shall not exceed the total project cost; (c) a project shall not combine funding from the mechanism with funding from support schemes provided by Member States which would finance the same additional units; (d) the sum of repayable and non-repayable support for a given project pursuant to Article 5(2), whether Union or national, and whether public or private, shall not exceed the project’s total cost; (e) repayable support from Union instruments or programmes for a given project shall not be used to pre-finance a grant from the mechanism for the same project; (f) a grant from the mechanism for a given project shall not be used to reimburse repayable support from Union instruments or programmes for the same project.