Amendment to Regulation (EU) No 223/2014
Article 2
Article 6a, paragraph 4, of Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 is amended as follows: (1) the following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph: ‘In addition to the initial pre-financing set out in the first subparagraph, the Commission shall pay 4 % of the REACT-EU resources allocated to programmes for the year 2021 as additional initial pre-financing in 2022. For programmes in Member States which have had a level of arrivals of persons from Ukraine greater than 1 % of their national population between 24 February 2022 and 23 March 2022, that percentage shall be increased to 34 %.’; (2) the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘The amount paid as initial pre-financing referred to in the first and second subparagraphs shall be totally cleared from the Commission accounts not later than when the operational programme is closed.’.