Article 1
1. Union aid of a total amount of EUR 43 082 500 shall be available to Greece and Union aid of a total amount of EUR 8 585 500 shall be available to Slovenia, to provide exceptional support to farmers subject to the conditions set out in this Regulation. 2. Greece and Slovenia shall use the amounts referred to in paragraph 1 for measures aiming to compensate the most affected farmers for the economic losses impacting on their viability. 3. The measures shall be taken on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria that take account of the economic losses borne by the affected farmers and ensure that the resulting payments do not cause any market or competition distortion. 4. Greece and Slovenia shall ensure that, when farmers are not the direct beneficiaries of the payments of the Union aid, the economic benefit of the Union aid is passed on to them in full. 5. The expenditure borne by Greece and Slovenia referred to in paragraph 1 in relation to the payments for the measures referred to in paragraph 2 shall only be eligible for Union aid if those payments are made by 31 May 2024. 6. Measures under this Regulation may be cumulated with other support financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. 7. Greece and Slovenia may grant additional national support for the measures taken under paragraph 2 up to a maximum of 200 % of the respective amounts set out in paragraph 1, on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria, provided that the resulting payments do not cause any market or competition distortion, or overcompensation. 8. In order to avoid overcompensation, when granting support under this Regulation, Greece and Slovenia shall take into account the support granted under other national or Union support instruments or private schemes to respond to the economic losses concerned.