Contributions by Member States and third parties
Article 7
1. Member States may contribute to the Instrument with the amounts referred to in Article 4(2). The relative share of the contribution of the Member State concerned to those amounts shall correspond to the relative share of that Member State in the total GNI of the Union. For the contributions for year n, the GNI-based relative share shall be calculated as the share in the total GNI of the Union, as resulting from the respective column in the revenue part of the last annual Union budget or amending annual Union budget adopted for the year n-1. The support under the Instrument under this paragraph shall become available in respect of any amount set in an agreement between the Commission and the respective Member State after that agreement enters into force. 2. Member States may contribute to the Instrument with additional amounts as referred to in Article 4(3). 3. The contributions referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article shall constitute external assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(2), point (a)(ii), of the Financial Regulation. 4. Interested third countries and parties may also contribute to non-repayable support under the Instrument with additional amounts referred to in Article 4(3), of this Regulation in particular related to the specific objectives referred to in Article 2(2), points (b) and (c), of this Regulation. Those contributions shall constitute external assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(2), points (d) and (e), of the Financial Regulation.