PUBLIC - Croatia, the War, and the Future

7. REGIONAL POLICY AND COORDINATION OF STRUCTURAL INSTRUMENTS
1. 32006 R 1083: Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 of 11 July 2006 laying down general
provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the
Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999 (OJ L 210, 31.7.2006, p. 25).
1. In Article 15 (4), the following subparagraph is inserted after the second subparagraph:
'The Commission shall, in cooperation with Croatia, verify additionality ex post on 31
December 2017.'
2. In Article 18(1), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
'1. The resources available for commitment from the Funds for the period 2007 to 2013 shall
be EUR 308 417 037 817 at 2004 prices in accordance with the annual breakdown shown in
Annex I.'
3. Article 19 is replaced by the following:
'Article 19
Resources for the Convergence objective
Overall resources for the Convergence objective shall amount to 81,56 % of the resources
referred to in Article 18(1) (i.e. a total of EUR 251 529 800 379) and shall be distributed
between the different components as follows:
(a) 70,50% (i.e. a total of EUR 177 324 921 223) for the financing referred to in Article
5(1), using eligible population, regional prosperity, national prosperity and
unemployment rate as the criteria for calculating the indicative breakdowns by Member
State;
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