Beneficiaries of Community support shall provide a substantial proportion of funding, which may include any other public funding. Community funding shall not exceed 50 % of the cost of operations. However, in the cases expressly provided for in the Annex, this proportion may reach as much as 60 % of the cost of operations.

The financial reference amount for implementation of the Programme for the period referred to in Article 1(1) shall be EUR  F1453,60 million. An indicative breakdown of that amount by sector is set out in section 1.5 of the Annex. The annual appropriations shall be authorised by the budgetary authority within the limits of the financial perspective.

Without prejudice to the agreements and conventions to which the Community is a contracting party, enterprises benefiting from the Programme must be owned and continue to be owned, whether directly or by majority participation, by Member States and/or by nationals of Member States.