Regulation 2020/558 - Amendment of Regulations (EU) No 1301/2013 and (EU) No 1303/2013 as regards specific measures to provide exceptional flexibility for the use of the European Structural and Investments Funds in response to the COVID-19 outbreak - Main contents
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Regulation (EU) 2020/558 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2020 amending Regulations (EU) No 1301/2013 and (EU) No 1303/2013 as regards specific measures to provide exceptional flexibility for the use of the European Structural and Investments Funds in response to the COVID-19 outbreak| Legal instrument | Regulation |
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| Number legal act | Regulation 2020/558 |
| Original proposal | COM(2020)138  |
| CELEX number i | 32020R0558 |
| Document | 23-04-2020; Date of signature |
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| Publication in Official Journal | 24-04-2020; OJ L 130 p. 1-6 |
| Signature | 23-04-2020 |
| Effect | 24-04-2020; Entry into force Date pub. See Art 3 |
| End of validity | 31-12-9999 |
24.4.2020 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 130/1 |
REGULATION (EU) 2020/558 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 23 April 2020
amending Regulations (EU) No 1301/2013 and (EU) No 1303/2013 as regards specific measures to provide exceptional flexibility for the use of the European Structural and Investments Funds in response to the COVID-19 outbreak
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 177, 178 and point (a) of Article 322(1) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
Having regard to the opinion of the Court of Auditors (1),
After consulting the European Economic and Social Committee,
After consulting the Committee of the Regions,
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (2),
Whereas:
(1) |
Member States have been affected by the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak in an unprecedented manner. The current public health crisis hampers growth in Member States, which in turn aggravates the serious liquidity shortages due to the sudden and significant increase in public investments needed in their healthcare systems and other sectors of their economies. That has created an exceptional situation which needs to be addressed with specific measures. |
(2) |
In order to respond to the impact of the public health crisis, Regulations (EU) No 1301/2013 (3) and (EU) No 1303/2013 (4) of the European Parliament and of the Council have already been amended, by Regulation (EU) 2020/460 of the European Parliament and of the Council (5), to allow for more flexibility in the implementation of the programmes supported by the European Regional Development Fund (the ‘ERDF’), the European Social Fund (the ‘ESF’) and the Cohesion Fund (collectively ‘the Funds’) and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (the ‘EMFF’). In order to contribute to an effective response to the current public health crisis, the scope of support from the ERDF was considerably expanded. |
(3) |
However, the serious negative effects on Union economies and societies are becoming worse. It is therefore necessary to provide for exceptional additional flexibility to Member States to enable them to respond to this unprecedented public health crisis by enhancing the possibility to mobilise all non-utilised support from the Funds. |
(4) |
With a view to alleviating the burden on public budgets responding to the public health crisis, Member States should be given the exceptional possibility to request, for cohesion policy programmes, a co-financing rate of 100 % to be applied for the accounting year 2020-2021, in accordance with budget appropriations and subject to available funding. Based on an assessment of the application of that exceptional co-financing rate, the Commission could propose an extension of this measure. |
(5) |
In order to provide additional flexibility to Member States for the reallocation of resources with a view to providing tailor-made responses to the public health crisis, possibilities for financial transfers under the Investment for growth and jobs goal between the ERDF, the ESF and the Cohesion Fund should be introduced or enhanced. Furthermore, transfer possibilities between categories of regions should also be exceptionally increased for Member States given the widespread impact of the public health crisis, while respecting Treaty objectives for cohesion policy. Such transfers should not affect the resources under the European territorial cooperation goal, the additional allocations to outermost regions, support to the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) or the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived. |
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