{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1353/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1353/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2020/1353",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1353",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Poland may finance the following measures:\n(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;\n(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’;\n(c) subsidies towards salaries and social security contributions of companies and other entities 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, 15gg, 15zzb, 15zze, 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’;\n(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’;\n(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 Art. 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’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/1353/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:09.498053+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}