Legal provisions of COM(2020)439 - Proposal to grant temporary support under Council Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to Romania to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency situation following the COVID-19 outbreak

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Article 1

Romania fulfils the conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2020/672.

Article 2

1. The Union shall make available to Romania a loan amounting to a maximum of EUR 4 099 244 587. The loan shall have a maximum average maturity of 15 years.

2. The availability period for financial assistance granted by this Decision shall be 18 months starting from the first day after this Decision has taken effect.

3. The Union financial assistance shall be made available by the Commission to Romania in a maximum of eight instalments. An instalment may be disbursed in one or several tranches. The maturities of the tranches under the first instalment may be longer than the maximum average maturity referred to in paragraph 1. In such cases, the maturities of further tranches shall be set so that the maximum average maturity referred to in paragraph 1 is respected once all instalments have been disbursed.

4. The first instalment shall be released subject to the entry into force of the loan agreement provided for in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EU) 2020/672.

5. Romania shall pay the cost of the funding of the Union referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2020/672 for each instalment plus any fees, costs and expenses of the Union resulting from any funding related to the loan granted under paragraph 1 of this Article.

6. The Commission shall decide on the size and release of instalments, as well as on the size of the tranches.

Article 3

Romania may finance the following measures:

(a)the technical unemployment benefit to employees of employers that reduce or temporarily interrupt their activity, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 30/2020’, Article XI;

(b)the benefit applied for persons whose employment contract was suspended, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 92/2020’, Article I;

(c)the short-time work scheme, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’, Article 1;

(d)the benefit similar to that referred to in point (a) for categories other than employees, including self-employed and liberal professions, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 30/2020’, Article XV;

(e)the benefit provided by ‘Law No 6/2020 on State Social Insurance budget for 2020’ for other categories than employees, including self-employed and liberal professions, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’, Article 3;

(f)the support allowance to daily labourers as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 132/2020’, Article 4;

(g)the bonus in respect of additional work for the personnel of the specialty structures of the National Public Health Institute and the county public health directorates and/or the public health directorate of Bucharest, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 11/2020’, Article 8(6);

(h)the childcare bonus granted to employees of the national system of defence, penitentiaries, public health units and other categories established through ministerial orders, as provided for in ‘Government Emergency Ordinance 30/2020’, Article I(6);

(i)the bonus in respect of particularly dangerous conditions granted in recognition of the merits of medical personnel, as provided for in ‘Law No 56/2020’, Article 7.

Article 4

Romania shall inform the Commission by 30 March 2021, and every six months thereafter of the implementation of the planned public expenditure until that planned public expenditure has been fully implemented.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to Romania.

This Decision shall take effect on the date of its notification to the addressee.

Article 6

This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.