Article 1 Definitions

For the purpose of this Decision, the following definitions apply:

1. (1)

   ‘correction coefficient’ means the percentage applied to remuneration of expatriate officials to adjust for differences in price level of consumer goods and services in the duty station by reference to base city, as established by Eurostat^f1;

2. (2)

   ‘year N’ means the year from 1 January until 31 December in which a Member State needs to fulfil conditions laid down in Article 61(3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 in order to be entitled to receive financial support;

3. (3)

   ‘annual payment’ means a payment made by the Agency to the Member State concerned after the end of year N;

4. (4)

   ‘advance payment’ means a payment made by the Agency to the Member State concerned before the end of year N in advance of the annual payment;

5. (5)

   ‘overall national border guard staffing’ means the overall staffing of the specific entities within the main national authorities or, where applicable, of all main national authorities contributing systematically to the European Border and Coast Guard standing corps via secondments in accordance with Article 56 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896.