Article 1
Open ↗For the period from 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023, Member States may submit by 15 June 2022 a second request for Union aid, indicating: (a) the willingness to use more than the definitive allocation of Union aid for school fruit and vegetables and/or for school milk set out in Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/493 and the additional amount requested, in the case an additional allocation be available; or (b) the amount of the definitive allocation of Union aid for school fruit and vegetables and/or for school milk set out in Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/493 that is not requested, in the case there is no willingness to use the entire amount of that allocation. Member States may only request an additional amount of Union aid pursuant to first paragraph, point (a), where the use of the definitive allocation of Union aid for school year 2018/2019 running during the period from 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2019 is equal or above 75 %, taking into account the declarations of expenditure sent to the Commission concerning expenditure effected up to 31 December 2021 in accordance with Article 10 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 ( 5 ) . Their request shall be linked to the number of displaced children from Ukraine falling within the target group defined in the Member States’ strategy in accordance with Article 2(1), point (f), of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/39, at the time of the submission of that request and shall be duly justified on the grounds of available data. Where a Member State does not submit a request for Union aid pursuant to the first paragraph, it shall be regarded as having confirmed the definitive allocations set out in Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/493.