1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Programme for the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2027 shall be EUR 7 588 000 000 in current prices.
2. The indicative distribution of the amount referred to in paragraph 1 shall be:
(a)
EUR 2 226 914 000 for Specific Objective 1 – High Performance Computing;
(b)
EUR 2 061 956 000 for Specific Objective 2 – Artificial Intelligence;
(c)
EUR 1 649 566 000 for Specific Objective 3 – Cybersecurity and Trust;
(d)
EUR 577 347 000 for Specific Objective 4 – Advanced Digital Skills;
(e)
EUR 1 072 217 000 for Specific Objective 5 – Deployment and Best Use of Digital Capacities and Interoperability.
3. The amount referred to in paragraph 1 may also be used for technical and administrative assistance for the implementation of the Programme, such as preparatory, monitoring, control, audit and evaluation activities, including by using corporate information technology systems.
4. Budgetary commitments for actions extending over more than one financial year may be broken down over several years into annual instalments.
5. Resources allocated to Member States under shared management may, at the request of the Member State concerned, be transferred to the Programme, subject to the conditions set out in the relevant provision of the Common Provisions Regulation for 2021-2027, including for the purpose of complementing grants awarded to an action, up to 100 % of the total eligible cost where possible, without prejudice to the co-financing principle laid down in Article 190 of the Financial Regulation and to the State aid rules. The Commission shall implement those resources directly in accordance with point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 62(1) of the Financial Regulation or indirectly in accordance with point (c) of that subparagraph. Those resources shall be used for the benefit of the Member State concerned.
6. Where the Commission has not entered into a legal commitment under direct or indirect management for resources transferred in accordance with paragraph 5 of this Article, the corresponding uncommitted resources may be transferred back to one or more respective source programmes, at the request of the Member State concerned, in accordance with the conditions set out in the relevant provision of the Common Provisions Regulation for 2021-2027.
7. In accordance with point (a) of the second subparagraph of Article 193(2) of the Financial Regulation, in duly justified cases specified in the financing decision and for a limited period, actions supported under this Regulation and the underlying costs may be considered to be eligible as of 1 January 2021, even if they were implemented and incurred before the grant application was submitted.