PART ONEMAIN PROVISIONS

TITLE IX Funding instruments

Article 34Financial instruments

1.

Article 208(4) and (5), Article 209(1), (2) and (4), Article 210(1), Article 214, Article 215(2) to (7) and Article 216 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 shall apply.

2.

Financial instruments may be established under the 11th EDF. Member States or other parties may contribute to such instruments.

3.

The 11th EDF shall be authorised to contribute to financial instruments or to the provisioning of budgetary guarantees set up by the Union budget.

4.

Financial instruments may be established in the financing decisions referred to in Article 24. They shall be, whenever possible, under the lead of the EIB, a multilateral European financial institution such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or a bilateral European financial institution such as a bilateral development bank, and may be pooled with additional grants from other sources.