Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC) No 1989/2006 of 21 December 2006 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 ( OJ L 411, 30.12.2006 )
Date: 2007-02-02
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Cohesion Fund, European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund, co-financing, economic and social cohesion, operational programme

2.2.2007

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Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC) No 1989/2006 of 21 December 2006 amending Annex III to Regulation
(EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European
Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999

(Official Journal of the European Union L 411 of 30 December 2006)

Regulation (EC) No 1989/2006 should read as follows:

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1989/2006

of 21 December 2006

amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 laying down general provisions on the
European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Cohesion Fund and
repealing Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and
Romania (1), and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,

Having regard the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania (2),
and in particular Article 56 thereof,

(3)

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Pursuant to Article 56 of the Act of Accession, where
acts which remain valid beyond 1 January 2007, and
require adaptation by reason of accession, and the
necessary adaptations have not been provided for in
the Act of Accession or its Annexes, the necessary acts
shall be adopted by the Council, unless the Commission
adopted the original act.

Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 (3) defines the general
rules governing the assistance of the European Regional
Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the
Cohesion Fund and their objectives. Pursuant to Article
53, Annex III to that Regulation establishes the ceilings
applicable
in the operational
programmes, by Member State and by objective, on the

to co-financing rates

basis of objective criteria. Annex III to Regulation (EC)
No 1083/2006 should be adapted in order to take into
account the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the
European Union.

It is necessary to ensure that any technical adaptation to
the Structural and Cohesion Funds legislation is adopted
as soon as possible so as to allow Bulgaria and Romania
to present programming documents as from the date of
their accession to the European Union.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force only subject to and on the
date of the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of
Bulgaria and Romania.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2006.

For the Council
The President

J. KORKEAOJA

(1) OJ L 157, 21.6.2005, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 157, 21.6.2005, p. 203.
(3) OJ L 210, 31.7.2006, p. 25.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX III

Ceilings applicable to co-financing rates

(referred to in Article 53)

Criteria

Member States

ERDF and ESF
Percentage of eligible expenditure

Cohesion Fund
Percentage of eligible
expenditure

1. Member States whose average GDP
per capita for the period 2001 to
2003 was below 85 % of the EU-25
average during the same period

Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Greece,
Cyprus,
Latvia,
Poland,
Hungary, Malta,
Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia

Estonia,
Lithuania,
Portugal,

85 % for
and Re-
the Convergence
gional competitiveness and employment
objectives

2. Member States other

than those
under (1) eligible for the transitional
regime of the Cohesion Fund on 1
January 2007

Spain

3. Member States other

than those

referred to under 1 and 2

4. Member States other

than those

referred to under 1 and 2

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France,
Ireland,
the Neth-
erlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and
United Kingdom

Italy, Luxemburg,

Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France,
Ireland,
the Neth-
erlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and
United Kingdom

Italy, Luxemburg,

80 % for the Convergence and the phasing-
in regions under
the Regional competi-
tiveness and employment objective

50 % for the Regional competitiveness and
employment objective outside phasing-in
regions

75 % for the Convergence objective

50 % for the Regional competitiveness and
employment objective

5. Outermost Regions

referred to in
Article 299(2) of the Treaty benefiting
from the additional allocation for
these
in
provided
paragraph 20 of Annex II

regions

for

Spain, France and Portugal

50 %

6. Outermost Regions

referred to in

Spain, France and Portugal

Article 299(2) of the Treaty

85 % under
the Convergence and Re-
gional competitiveness and employment
objectives

85 %

85 %

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