{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303/article-41",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1303",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303",
  "path": "article/41",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Payment applications including expenditure for financial instruments",
  "text": "1. As regards financial instruments referred to in points (a) and (c) of Article 38(1), and as regards financial instruments referred to in point (b) of Article 38(1) implemented in accordance with points (a), (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 38(4), phased applications for interim payment shall be made for programme contributions paid to the financial instrument during the eligibility period laid down in Article 65(2) (the ‘eligibility period’) in accordance with the following conditions:\n(a) the amount of the programme contribution paid to the financial instrument included in each application for interim payment submitted during the eligibility period shall not exceed 25 % of the total amount of programme contributions committed to the financial instrument under the relevant funding agreement, corresponding to expenditure within the meaning of points (a), (b) and (d) of Article 42(1) expected to be paid during the eligibility period. Applications for interim payment submitted after the eligibility period shall include the total amount of eligible expenditure within the meaning of Article 42;\n(b) each application for interim payment referred to in point (a) of this paragraph may include up to 25 % of the total amount of the national co-financing as referred to in Article 38(9) expected to be paid to the financial instrument, or at the level of final recipients for expenditure in the meaning of points (a), (b) and (d) of Article 42(1), within the eligibility period;\n(c) subsequent applications for interim payment submitted during the eligibility period shall only be made:\n(i)for the second application for interim payment, when at least 60 % of the amount included in the first application for interim payment has been spent as eligible expenditure within the meaning of points (a), (b) and (d) of Article 42(1);\n(ii)for the third and subsequent applications for interim payment, when at least 85 % of the amounts included in the previous applications for interim payment have been spent as eligible expenditure within the meaning of points (a), (b) and (d) of Article 42(1);\n(d) each application for interim payment, which includes expenditure related to financial instruments, shall separately disclose the total amount of programme contributions paid to the financial instruments and the amounts paid as eligible expenditure within the meaning of points (a), (b) and (d) of Article 42(1).\nAt closure of a programme, the application for payment of the final balance shall include the total amount of eligible expenditure as referred to in Article 42.\n2. As regards financial instruments referred to in point (b) of Article 38(1) implemented in accordance with point (d) of the first subparagraph of Article 38(4), the applications for interim payment and for payment of the final balance shall include the total amount of the payments effected by the managing authority for investments in final recipients as referred to in points (a) and (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 42(1).\n3. The appropriate authority may make regulations in relation to support for rural development, laying down the rules for withdrawal of payments to financial instruments and consequent adjustments in respect of applications for payment.\n4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 41(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/748), regs. 1, 79; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 41(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1422), regs. 1, 14(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision applies to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland only; a separate version has been created for Wales"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Substituted by Corrigendum to Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 (Official Journal of the European Union L 347 of 20 December 2013)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1303/article/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:08.647663+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."
}