
Article 1 
Article 45 of Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006 is replaced by the following:
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Article 45 
Financial engineering instruments for enterprises referred to in Article 43(1)(a) shall invest only in activities which the managers of the financial engineering instruments judge potentially economically viable.
They shall not invest in firms in difficulty within the meaning of the Community Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty as of 10 October 2004.'.
Article 2 
Funding agreements concluded before 1 December 2011 may be amended in order to include new repayable investments or new guarantees for repayable investments in accordance with Article 45 of Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006. Such amendments shall include the adjusted investment strategy referred to in Article 43(3)(a) of that Regulation.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 29 November 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO