{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-409/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2018/409",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2018/409 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2018 amending Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 480/2009 establishing a Guarantee Fund for external actions",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-409",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Regulation (EU) 2018/409 of the European Parliament and of the Council\nof 14 March 2018\namending Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 480/2009 establishing a Guarantee Fund for external actions\nTHE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 209 and 212 thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the European Commission,\nAfter transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,\nActing in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe Guarantee Fund for external actions (the ‘Fund’) is regulated by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 480/2009.\n(2)\nThe Fund is endowed by one annual payment from the general budget of the Union, by interest on Fund resources invested and by amounts recovered from defaulting debtors.\n(3)\nRisk-premium revenues generated under the financing operations of the European Investment Bank (EIB) that benefit from a Union budgetary guarantee should be paid into the Fund.\n(4)\nWhere the amount of the Fund exceeds 10 % of the Union's total outstanding capital liabilities, the surplus should be paid back into the general budget of the Union in order to better protect the general budget of the Union against potential additional risk of default of the EIB financing operations addressing the long-term economic resilience of refugees, migrants, host and transit communities, and communities of origin as a strategic response to addressing root causes of migration.\n(5)\nRegulation (EC, Euratom) No 480/2009 should therefore be amended accordingly,\nHAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Position of the European Parliament of 8 February 2018 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and decision of the Council of 27 February 2018."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 480/2009 of 25 May 2009 establishing a Guarantee Fund for external actions (OJ L 145, 10.6.2009, p. 10)."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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