How is the financial distribution of Funds between MS and the regions decided upon?
The EFF Regulation indicates the objective criteria on the basis of which the Commission makes the indicative breakdowns by Member States. This breakdown will indicate separately the amounts earmarked for the regions eligible to the Convergence objective and the amounts for the remaining regions. In doing so, the Commission will have to fulfil the obligation of concentration of around three quarters of financial resources in the Convergence regions.For the allocation between Member States for Convergence regions, the methodology used is the same for all the Structural Funds, EFF and Rural Development Fund. It is based on the historical share of each Fund compared to the overall envelope for all Structural Funds per Member State. Nevertheless, the flexibility has been given to the Member States to shift amounts between Funds.For the allocation of the EFF amount between Member States of the non Convergence budget, the Commission used the objective criteria spelled out in the EFF Regulati
