Article 28 Aid intensity and rate of IPA II assistance
United Kingdom
The Commission decision adopting a cross-border cooperation programme for the forms of cooperation referred to in Article 27 shall fix the co-financing rate and the maximum amount of IPA II assistance, based either on:
total eligible expenditure, including public and private expenditure; or
public eligible expenditure.
For cross- border cooperation programmes under point (a) of Article 27, the Union co-financing rate at the level of each priority axis of a cross-border cooperation programme as referred to in Article 34(2) shall not be less than 20 % and not higher than 85 % of the eligible expenditure.
By way of derogation to paragraph 2, at the request of the managing authority, a co-financing rate of 100% may be applied to expenditure declared in payment applications during the accounting year starting 1 July 2020 and ending 30 June 2021 for one or more priority axes.
Request for modification of the co-financing rate shall be submitted in accordance with the procedure for the amendment of programmes set out in Article 31(5A) and shall be accompanied by a revised programme. The co-financing rate of 100% shall apply only if the relevant amendment of the cooperation programme is approved by the Commission before the submission of the final application for an interim payment in accordance with Article 135(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013.
On the first day of the accounting year starting 1 July 2021 and ending 30 June 2022 , the co-financing rate shall come back automatically to the level it was on the day when the request for modification of the co-financing rate, referred to in the second subparagraph, was submitted to the Commission.
For cross-border cooperation programmes under points (b) and (c) of Article 27, the Union co-financing rate at the level of each thematic priority shall not be less than 20 % and not higher than 85 % of the eligible expenditure. For technical assistance the co-financing rate shall be 100 %.