Union contribution to apiculture programmes
Article 4
The Union contribution to apiculture programmes shall be allocated to Member States with apiculture programmes in proportion to the average total number of beehives notified by such Member States in accordance with Article 3 during the two calendar years immediately preceding the notification to the Commission of the apiculture programmes. The minimum Union contribution shall be EUR 25 000 per apiculture programme. If the amount of Union financing requested by a Member State for its apiculture programme is lower than the allocation resulting from the first paragraph, the Union contribution to the apiculture programmes of the other Member States may be increased in proportion to the number of beehives they have respectively notified.