Eligibility of actions that relate to the United Kingdom, where the Member States or persons or entities established in the Member States receive the Union funds
Article 6
1. Actions under direct, indirect and shared management for which the Member States, or persons or entities established in the Member States, receive Union funds under legal commitments signed or adopted before the date of withdrawal or, where applicable, in 2019 in application of Article 4 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2019/1197, and for which the eligibility is fulfilled through the membership of the United Kingdom in the Union at the date of withdrawal or, where applicable, through the eligibility of the United Kingdom in application of Article 4 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2019/1197, shall be eligible for Union funding for eligible expenditure incurred in 2020 as of the date of withdrawal. 2. Actions for which the eligibility condition of a minimum number of participants from different Member States in a consortium is fulfilled at the date of withdrawal through a member of the consortium which is a person or entity established in the United Kingdom, shall be eligible for Union funding for eligible expenditure incurred in 2020 where the conditions set out in Article 2(1) are fulfilled and as long as no decision as referred to in Article 3(2) has entered into force. 3. The non-fulfilment of the condition referred to in point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 2(1) or a Commission decision as referred to in Article 3(2) concerning the non-fulfilment of conditions referred to in point (c) of Article 3(1), shall be taken into account by the responsible authorising officer for the purposes of assessment of a possible serious deficiency in complying with the main obligations in the implementation of the legal commitment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.