Participation in calls and eligibility of resulting expenditures
Article 4
1. As of the date of entry into force of the decision referred to in point (e) of the first subparagraph of Article 2(1), and as long as no decision as referred to in Article 3(2) has entered into force, the United Kingdom, or persons and entities established in the United Kingdom, shall be eligible in 2020 for the purposes of conditions set in any calls, tenders, contests or any other procedure which may lead to financing from the Union’s budget to the same extent as Member States and persons or entities established in the Member States, and be eligible for Union funding for eligible expenditure incurred in 2020. Notwithstanding the first subparagraph: (a) contracts signed in application of Title VII of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 (‘the Financial Regulation’) until the end of 2020 shall be implemented in accordance with their terms and until their end date; (b) expenditure in respect of the United Kingdom direct payments scheme for the claim year 2020 pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 11 ) shall not be eligible for Union funding. 2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, the United Kingdom, or persons or entities established in the United Kingdom, shall not be eligible under Regulation (EU) No 1309/2013, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/1796, for actions covering workers made redundant and self-employed persons whose activity has ceased as a consequence of a withdrawal without an agreement nor under Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002, as amended for actions covering serious financial burden inflicted on Member States directly imputable to a withdrawal without a withdrawal agreement. 3. The first subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall not apply: (a) where the participation is limited to the Member States and persons or entities established in the Member States for security reasons; (b) to financial operations carried out within financial instruments managed directly or indirectly under Title X of the Financial Regulation, or to financial operations guaranteed by the Union budget under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) established by Regulation (EU) 2015/1017 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 12 ) or under the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD) established by Regulation (EU) 2017/1601 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 13 ) .