02020D1342 — EN — 27.04.2021 — 001.001

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COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2020/1342

of 25 September 2020

granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to the Kingdom of Belgium to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak







Article 1

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

Article 2

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1. The Union shall make available to Belgium a loan amounting to a maximum of EUR 8 197 530 000 . The loan shall have a maximum average maturity of 15 years.

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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 Belgium 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.

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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. Any further instalments shall be released in accordance with the terms of that loan agreement or, where relevant, be subject to the entry into force of an addendum thereto, or of an amended loan agreement.

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5. Belgium 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.

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Article 3

Belgium may finance the following measures:

(a) the temporary unemployment scheme, "chômage temporaire/tijdelijke werkloosheid" as provided for by the "Koninklijk besluit van 30 maart 2020 tot aanpassing van de procedures in het kader van tijdelijke werkloosheid omwille van het Covid-19-virus en tot wijziging van artikel 10 van het koninklijk besluit van 6 mei 2019 tot wijziging van de artikelen 27, 51, 52bis, 58, 58/3 en 63 van het koninklijk besluit van 25 november 1991 houdende de werkloosheidsreglementering en tot invoeging van de artikelen 36sexies, 63bis en 124bis in hetzelfde besluit/Arrêté royal du 30 mars 2020 visant à adapter les procédures dans le cadre du chômage temporaire dû au virus Covid-19 et à modifier l’article 10 de l’arrêté royal du 6 mai 2019 modifiant les articles 27, 51, 52bis, 58, 58/3 et 63 de l’arrêté royal du 25 novembre 1991 portant réglementation du chômage et insérant les articles 36sexies, 63bis et 124bis dans le même arrêté";

(b) the COVID-19-related replacement income for the self-employed, "crisis bridging rights" as provided for by the "Loi du 23 mars 2020 modifiant la loi du 22 décembre 2016 instaurant un droit passerelle en faveur des travailleurs indépendants et introduisant les mesures temporaires dans le cadre du COVID-19 en faveur des travailleurs indépendants/Wet van 23 maart 2020 tot wijziging van de wet van 22 december 2016 houdende invoering van een overbruggingsrecht ten gunste van zelfstandigen en tot invoering van tijdelijke maatregelen in het kader van COVID-19 ten gunste van zelfstandigen";

(c) the COVID-19 parental leave as provided for in the "Arrêté royal n° 23 du 13 mai 2020 pris en exécution de l’article 5, § 1, 5°, de la loi du 27 mars 2020 accordant des pouvoirs au Roi afin de prendre des mesures dans la lutte contre la propagation du coronavirus COVID-19 (II) visant le congé parental corona/Koninklijk besluit nr. 23 van 13 mei 2020, tot uitvoering van artikel 5, § 1, 5°, van de wet van 27 maart 2020 die machtiging verleent aan de Koning om maatregelen te nemen in de strijd tegen de verspreiding van het coronavirus COVID-19 (II) houdende het corona ouderschapsverlof";

(d) regional and community income support schemes, as follows: (i) for the Brussels Capital Region: — a compensation premium for companies forced to close because of the measures implemented to fight against the pandemic, as provided for in the "Arrêté du Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale de pouvoirs spéciaux n ° 2020/019 du 23 avril 2020/Bijzondere machtenbesluit van de Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering nr. 2020/019 van 23 april 2020", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; — a compensation premium for entrepreneurs whose activity heavily dropped because of the measures implemented to fight against the pandemic,as provided for in the "Bijzondere machtenbesluit nr. 2020/030 van de Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering van 28 mei 2020/Arrêté du Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale de pouvoirs spéciaux n ° 2020/030 du 28 mai 2020", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; — a compensation premium for companies in the event, night, tourism and cultural sectors, as provided for in the "Arrêté du Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale du 15 octobre 2020 relatif à une aide aux secteurs de l’événementiel, du monde de la nuit, du tourisme et de la culture dans le cadre de la crise sanitaire du COVID-19/Besluit van de Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering van 15 oktober 2020 betreffende steun aan de evenementen-, uitgaans-, toeristische en culturele sector in het kader van de gezondheidscrisis COVID-19", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; — a compensation premium for restaurants and cafés, as provided for in the "Arrêté du Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale du 12 novembre 2020 relatif à une aide aux entreprises débits de boissons et restaurants dans le cadre de la crise sanitaire du COVID-19/Besluit van de Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering van 12 november 2020 betreffende steun aan de eet- en drankgelegenhedenondernemingen in het kader van de gezondheidscrisis COVID-19", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; — a compensation premium for intermittent workers, as provided for in the "Arrêté du Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale du 24 juillet 2020 instaurant une aide exceptionnelle pour les travailleurs intermittents de la culture/Besluit van de Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering van 24 juli 2020 houdende invoering van uitzonderlijke steun voor de cultuurwerkers"; — an emergency support scheme consisting of the granting of micro cash loans for the self-employed and micro-enterprises, as provided for by "Arrêté du Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale du 3 décembre 2020 concernant l’octroi d’une subvention de 1 625 000,00 EUR à la SA Brusoc dans le cadre de l’octroi de micro-crédits de trésorerie pour les indépendants et les micro-entreprises en raison de la crise sanitaire du COVID-19/Besluit van de Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering van 3 december 2020 betreffende de toekenning van micro-kaskredieten voor zelfstandigen en zko’s", for the part of public expenditure related to the expected losses on loans granted to the self-employed and one-person companies; (ii) for the Flemish Region and the Flemish Community: — a nuisance premium as provided for in "Besluit van de Vlaamse Regering van 20 maart 2020", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; — a compensation premium as provided for in "Besluit van de Vlaamse Regering van 10 april 2020", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; — a support premium as provided for in "Besluit van de Vlaamse Regering van 12 juni 2020", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; — a Flemish Protection Mechanism as provided for in "Besluit van de Vlaamse Regering van 7 augustus 2020", "Besluit van de Vlaamse Regering van 23 oktober 2020" and "Besluit van de Vlaamse Regering van 13 november 2020" (Flemish Protection Mechanism 1, 2, 3), for the part of the expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; (iii) for the French Community: — a cultural operators subvention as provided for in "Arrêté du Gouvernement de la Communauté française de pouvoirs spéciaux n ° 4 du 23 avril 2020"; — nurseries subvention as provided for in "Arrêté du Gouvernement de la Communauté française du 7 avril 2020", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; (iv) for the Walloon Region: — a compensation premium for business closure as provided for in "Arrêté ministériel du 8 avril 2020 portant exécution de l’arrêté du Gouvernement wallon du 20 mars 2020", for the part of expenditure related to the support of the self-employed and one-person companies; — training activities as provided for in "Arrêté du Gouvernement wallon du 19 juin 2020"; (v) for the German-speaking Community: — a cultural operators and self-employed subvention as provided for in "Parlament der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft, Corona-Krisendekret I vom 6. April 2020", Article 7, for the part of expenditure relating to loans being converted into grants; — a touristic operators subvention as provided for in "Parlament der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft, CoronaKrisendekret III vom 20. Juli 2020", Article 4, for the part of expenditure related to the support of the selfemployed and one-person companies;

(e) health related measures in the German-speaking Community as provided for in "Parlament der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft, Corona-Krisendekret I vom 6. April 2020", Article 7.

Article 4

1. Belgium 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.

2. Where measures referred to in Article 3 are based on planned public expenditure and have been subject to an implementing decision amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1342, Belgium shall inform the Commission within six months after the date of adoption of that amending implementing decision, and every six months thereafter, of the implementation of the planned public expenditure until that planned public expenditure has been fully implemented.

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Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium.

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.