Article 1
Open ↗1. Union emergency financial support of a total amount of EUR 56 600 000 shall be available to Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia as an exceptional support to farmers subject to the conditions set out in this Regulation. 2. The Union expenditure incurred in accordance with this Regulation shall not exceed a total amount of: (a) EUR 4 400 000 for Croatia; (b) EUR 4 600 000 for Cyprus; (c) EUR 30 000 000 for Portugal; (d) EUR 14 800 000 for Romania; (e) EUR 2 800 000 for Slovenia. 3. Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia shall use the amounts referred to in paragraph 2 for measures aiming to compensate the most affected farmers for their economic losses resulting from adverse climatic events and natural disasters in 2025 and 2026 and impacting the viability of their farms. The following agricultural crops or sectors are eligible for the Union emergency financial support: (a) in Croatia: plums, hazelnut, vineyards, alfalfa and sugar beet; (b) in Cyprus: citrus fruits, bananas, figs, pomegranates, prickly pears, vineyards, olive oil and table olives, cereals, fodder crops, apiculture, bovines, sheep and goats; (c) in Portugal: arable crops, olive oil and table olives, fruit and vegetables, wine sector and livestock sector; (d) in Romania: sunflower and maize; (e) in Slovenia: apples. 4. The measures referred to in paragraph 3 shall be implemented on the basis of objective, fair 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. 5. The emergency financial support provided under this Regulation shall be limited to compensating farmers for income losses directly resulting from damage to the eligible sectors and to the production of crops. No other economic losses shall be eligible for support under this Regulation. 6. Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia shall ensure that, where farmers are not the direct beneficiaries of the Union emergency financial support, the economic benefit of that support is passed on to the farmers in full. 7. The expenditure borne by Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia referred to in paragraph 2 in relation to the payments for the measures referred to in paragraph 3 shall only be eligible for Union emergency financial support if those payments are made by 28 February 2027. 8. For the purposes of Article 30(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/127, the operative event for the exchange rate as regards the amounts set out in Article 1(2), point (d), of this Regulation shall be the date of entry into force of this Regulation. 9. The Union emergency financial support under this Regulation may be cumulated with other support financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. 10. Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia may grant additional national support for the measures taken under paragraph 3 up to a maximum of 200 % of the amounts set out in paragraph 2, on the basis of the same objective and non-discriminatory criteria, provided that the resulting payments do not cause any market or competition distortion, or overcompensation. The agricultural crops and sectors eligible for additional national support shall be the same as those eligible for the Union emergency financial support. Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia shall pay the additional national support by 30 April 2027. 11. In order to avoid overcompensation, when granting financial support under this Regulation, Croatia, Cyprus, Portugal, Romania 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.