Article 1
Open ↗Decision (CFSP) 2022/338 is amended as follows: (1) Article 2 is amended as follows: (a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. The financial reference amount intended to cover the expenditure related to the Assistance Measure shall be EUR 4 120 000 000.’ ; (b) paragraphs 3 and 4 are replaced by the following: ‘3. In accordance with Article 29(5) of Decision (CFSP) 2021/509, the administrator for assistance measures may call for contributions following the adoption of this Decision, up to EUR 4 120 000 000. The funds called by the administrator for assistance measures shall only be used to pay expenditure within the limits approved by the Committee established by Decision (CFSP) 2021/509 in the related amending and annual budgets corresponding to the Assistance Measure. 4. Expenditure related to the implementation of the Assistance Measure shall be eligible from 1 January 2022 and until a date to be determined by the Council: (a) The maximum eligible expenditure incurred before 11 March 2022 shall be EUR 450 000 000. (b) The maximum amount eligible for the period from 11 March 2022 to 20 July 2022 shall be EUR 1 390 000 000. (c) The maximum amount eligible for the period between 21 July 2022 and 30 November 2022 shall be EUR 677 420 154,06. (d) The amount of EUR 1 602 579 845,94 shall be eligible from 1 December 2022. EUR 1 000 000 000 of that amount shall be eligible from 9 February 2023 to 31 May 2023 for financing the reimbursement of donated materiel from existing stocks or from reprioritisation of existing orders, delivered during that period, regarding ground-to-ground and artillery ammunition, and, if requested, missiles. Any unused funds from this latter amount shall be used for the reimbursement of all lethal equipment eligible under the Assistance Measure since 1 December 2022, in accordance with the priorities set in Ukraine’s list of requirements. (e) Expenditure related to maintenance and repair shall be eligible from 17 October 2022, and expenditure related to refit shall be eligible from 2 February 2023.’. (2) in Article 4(4), point (e) is replaced by the following: ‘(e) the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic’; (3) in Article 4, paragraph 4, point (o) is replaced by the following: ‘(o) the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania’; (4) in Article 7, the following paragraph is added: ‘The High Representative shall report regularly, monthly to the Council on the implementation of Article 2(4), point (d), regarding the number of artillery ammunition deliveries, and, if requested, missiles, based on information provided by Member States.’.