02020D1353 — EN — 10.11.2022 — 001.001

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COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2020/1353

of 25 September 2020

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







Article 1

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

Article 2

1. The Union shall make available to Poland a loan amounting to a maximum of EUR 11 236 693 087 . 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 Poland in a maximum of ten 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. Poland 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

Poland may finance the following measures:

(a) a reduction in social security contributions, as provided for in Art. 31zo of the ‘Act of 2 March 2020 on specific solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and eradication of COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them’, for the part of expenditure related to the support of self-employed persons, all social cooperatives (regardless of the number of employees) and, for companies employing up to 50 people, the part of expenditure in respect of employees who were continuously in employment;

(b) a downtime benefit for self-employed persons and those working under civil law contracts, as provided for in Art. 15zq and 15zua of the ‘Act of 2 March 2020 on specific solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and eradication of COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them’;

(c) subsidies towards salaries and social security contributions of companies that use short-time work or voluntarily reduce working time or when the employees were continuously in employment, as provided for in Art. 15g, 15ga, 15gga, 15gg, 15zzb, 15zze and 15zze2 of the ‘Act of 2 March 2020 on specific solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and eradication of COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them’;

(d) subsidies to self-employed persons without employees as provided for in Art. 15zzc of the ‘Act of 2 March 2020 on specific solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and eradication of COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them’;

(e) loans convertible into subsidies granted to self-employed persons, micro-companies and non-government organisations, for the amount actually converted into grants, as provided for in Art. 15zzd and 15zzda of the ‘Act of 2 March 2020 on specific solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and eradication of COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them’;

(f) financing the performance of PCR diagnostic tests in the laboratories that concluded contracts on performing diagnostic RT-PCR tests for SARS-CoV 2 with the National Health Fund, as provided for in Art. 10a paragraphs 1 and 2, and, after the expiry of Art. 10a, Art. 11h paragraph 2 point 2 and paragraph 4 of the ‘Act of March 2, 2020 on specific solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and eradication of COVID 19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them’;

(g) granting additional monthly cash benefit for medical professionals and one-off additional cash benefit for other healthcare workers, as provided for in Art. 10a paragraph 1 of the ‘Act of March 2, 2020 on specific solutions related to the prevention, counteraction and eradication of COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them’ and, after the expiry of Art. 10a, Art. 42 the ‘Act of August 14, 2020 on amending certain acts in order to ensure the functioning of health protection in connection with the COVID-19 epidemic and after it has ceased’.

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Article 4

Poland 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 the Republic of Poland.

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.