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Document 02020D1345-20221028

Consolidated text: Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1345 of 25 September 2020 granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to the Czech Republic to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak

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COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2020/1345

of 25 September 2020

granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to the Czech Republic to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak

(OJ L 314 29.9.2020, p. 17)

Amended by:

 

 

Official Journal

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date

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COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2022/2084 of 25 October 2022

  L 280

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28.10.2022



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COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2020/1345

of 25 September 2020

granting temporary support under Regulation (EU) 2020/672 to the Czech Republic to mitigate unemployment risks in the emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak



Article 1

The Czech Republic fulfils the conditions set out in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2020/672.

Article 2

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1.  
The Union shall make available to Czechia a loan amounting to a maximum of EUR 4 500 000 000 . The loan shall have a maximum average maturity of 15 years.
2.  
The availability period for financial assistance granted by this Decision shall be 39 months starting from the first day after this Decision has taken effect.

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3.  
The Union financial assistance shall be made available by the Commission to the Czech Republic in a maximum of eight instalments. An instalment may be disbursed in one or several tranches. The maturities of the tranches under the first instalment may be longer than the maximum average maturity referred to in paragraph 1. In such cases, the maturities of further tranches shall be set so that the maximum average maturity referred to in paragraph 1 is respected once all instalments have been disbursed.

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4.  
The first instalment shall be released subject to the entry into force of the loan agreement provided for in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EU) 2020/672. Any further instalments shall be released in accordance with the terms of that loan agreement or, where relevant, be subject to the entry into force of an addendum thereto, or of an amended loan agreement concluded between Czechia and the Commission replacing the original loan agreement.

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5.  
The Czech Republic shall pay the cost of the funding of the Union referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2020/672 for each instalment plus any fees, costs and expenses of the Union resulting from any funding related to the loan granted under paragraph 1 of this Article.
6.  
The Commission shall decide on the size and release of instalments, as well as on the size of the tranches.

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Article 3

Czechia may finance the following measures:

(a) 

the ‘Antivirus’ Programme as provided for in ‘Government Resolution No 353 of 31 March 2020’, as amended, the legal basis of which is Article 120 of ‘Law No 435/2004 Coll. on employment’, as amended and extended by Government Resolution No 1039 of 14 October 2020 and several government decisions;

(b) 

the ‘Antivirus’ Programme Option C, as provided for in ‘Law No 300/2020 Coll.’;

(c) 

the ‘Pětadvacítka’ Programme, the compensation bonus for the self-employed, as provided for in ‘Law No 159/2020 Coll.’, as amended with the ‘autumn compensatory bonus’ as provided for in ‘Law No 461/2020 Coll.’, the ‘new compensatory bonus for 2021’ as provided for in ‘Law No 95/2021 Coll.’ and the related ‘Government resolutions No 154/2021 and 188/2021’ and the ‘compensatory bonus for 2022’ as provided for in ‘Law No 519/2021 Coll.’;

(d) 

the partial waiver of social and health security contributions due by the self-employed, as provided for in ‘Law No 136/2020 Coll.’ (for social security) and ‘Law No 134/2020 Coll.’ (for health security);

(e) 

the ‘Care allowance’ for the self-employed, as provided for in ‘Government Resolutions No 262 of 19 March 2020, No 311 of 26 March 2020, No 354 of 31 March 2020, No 514 of 4 May 2020, No 552 of 18 May 2020’, and as last amended and extended by ‘Government Resolution No 446 of 10 May 2021’, and Article 14 of ‘Law No 218/2000 Coll.’ on budgetary rules, as amended, which applies to the self-employed in primary agricultural and forestry production, and Article 3 point (h) of ‘Law No 47/2002 Coll.’ on support to SMEs, as amended, which applies to all other self-employed.

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Article 4

The Czech Republic shall inform the Commission by 30 March 2021, and every six months thereafter of the implementation of the planned public expenditure until that planned public expenditure has been fully implemented.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Czech Republic.

This Decision shall take effect on the date of its notification to the addressee.

Article 6

This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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