1.Union expenditure incurred for the additional support for promotion activities referred to in Article 1(2)(b) shall not exceed EUR 3 000 000.
This amount shall be allocated to Member States in accordance with the Annex.
2.Producer organisations shall submit initial requests for the additional support referred to in paragraph 1 to the Member States by 15 October 2014. Member States shall decide on the requests and on the distribution of the additional support to producer organisations as follows:
(a)in case the approved requests exceed the maximum amount allocated to a Member State in accordance with the Annex, the Member State shall set an allocation coefficient on the basis of received requests;
(b)in case the approved requests do not exceed the maximum amount of support, the allocation coefficient shall be set at 100 %.
3.The additional support referred to in paragraph 1 shall be available to producer organisations even if they do not provide for such promotion activities in their operational programmes. Article 32(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall not apply to additional support under this Article.
4.The additional support referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be taken into account for the purpose of calculating the ceilings referred to in Article 34(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.
5.The ceiling of one third of expenditure referred to in the fourth subparagraph of Article 33(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and the 25 % maximum ceiling for the increase of the operational fund referred to in Article 66(3)(c) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 shall not apply in respect of expenditure incurred for promotion activities referred to in Article 1(2)(b) of this Regulation.
6.Expenditure incurred in accordance with this Article shall form part of the operational fund of the producer organisations.