Article 1
Open ↗1. Union aid of a total amount of EUR 7 400 000 shall be available to Czechia and a total amount of EUR 2 900 000 shall be available to Slovenia to provide exceptional support to farmers subject to the conditions set out in this Regulation. 2. Czechia and Slovenia shall use the amount referred to in paragraph 1 for measures aiming to compensate the most affected farmers for their economic losses impacting on the viability of their farms, in the sectors and productions impacted by adverse climatic events and natural disasters in the regions affected. 3. The measures referred to in paragraph 2 shall be taken on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria that take account of the actual economic losses borne by the affected farmers. The measures shall be of such a nature that the resulting payments do not cause any market or competition distortion. 4. Czechia 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 Czechia and Slovenia of the amounts 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 December 2025 at the latest. 6. For the purposes of Article 30(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/127, the operative event for the exchange rate as regards the amount of EUR 7 400 000 set out in Article 1(1) of this Regulation shall be the date of entry into force of this Regulation. 7. 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. 8. Czechia 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. Czechia and Slovenia shall pay the additional national support by 31 March 2026 at the latest. 9. In order to avoid overcompensation, when granting support under this Regulation, Czechia 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.