Division (4) F1

pursuant to Article 38(1)(a) of the CPR, managing authorities may provide a financial contribution to a financial instrument set up at Union level; pursuant to Article 39(2) of the CPR, [Name of the Member State] may use up to 7 % of its ERDF and EAFRD aggregate allocation to provide a financial contribution to such financial instruments managed indirectly by the European Commission with implementation tasks entrusted to the EIB group (EIB being defined under Article 2(23) of the CPR as the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund or any subsidiary of the EIB) (the ‘EIB Group’) pursuant to point (c)(iii) of Article 58(1) and Article 139(4) of the Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002^f1 (Financial Regulation), in respect of [uncapped guarantees providing capital relief to financial intermediaries for new portfolios of debt finance to eligible SMEs in accordance with Article 37(4) of the CPR] AND/OR [securitisation, as defined in point (61) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012^f2, of [existing portfolios of debt finance to SMEs and other enterprises with less than 500 employees;] AND/OR [new portfolios of debt finance to SMEs] (Option 2); [with pooling of the MS Contribution with contributions from other Member States (Option 3)];