Common rules for calculating interim payments and payment of the final balance

1.   The Commission shall reimburse as interim payments 90 % of the amount resulting from applying the co-financing rate for each priority, laid down in the decision adopting the operational programme, to the eligible expenditure for the priority included in the payment application. The Commission shall determine the remaining amounts to be reimbursed as interim payments or to be recovered in accordance with Article 139.
2.   The contribution from the Funds or the EMFF to a priority through the interim payments and payment of the final balance shall not be higher than:
(a)
the eligible public expenditure indicated in the payment application for the priority; or
(b)
the contribution from the Funds or the EMFF for the priority laid down in the decision of the Commission approving the operational programme.