
Article 1 

1. Union aid of a total amount of EUR 420 000 000 shall be available to Member States to provide targeted support to farmers in the beef and veal, milk and milk products, pigmeat and sheepmeat and goatmeat sectors (‘livestock sectors’).Member States shall use the amounts available to them as set out in the Annex for measures taken on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria, provided that the resulting payments do not cause distortion of competition.The measures taken by the Member States shall aim at alleviating the economic consequences resulting from the market disturbances on farmers in the livestock sectors.Member States shall ensure that, when farmers in the livestock sectors are not the direct beneficiaries of the payments, the economic benefit of the support is passed on to them in full.Member States' expenditure in relation to the payments under this Regulation shall only be eligible for Union aid if the support has been paid by them by 30 June 2016 at the latest.
2. In respect of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the operative event for the exchange rate as regards the amounts set out in the Annex shall be the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
3. Support provided for in this Regulation may be cumulated with other support financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
Article 2 
Member States may grant additional support for the measures taken under Article 1 up to a maximum of 100 % of the corresponding amount as set out in the Annex, and under the same conditions of objectiveness, as laid down in Article 1.
Member States shall pay the additional support by 30 June 2016 at the latest.
Article 3 
Member States shall notify the Commission of the following:

((a)) without delay and no later than 31 December 2015, the objective criteria used to determine the methods for granting targeted support and the measures taken to avoid distortion of competition;
((b)) no later than 30 September 2016, the total amounts paid and the number and type of beneficiaries.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of 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, 15 October 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

Member State EUR
Belgium 13 049 568
Bulgaria 6 004 009
Czech Republic 11 155 561
Denmark 11 103 077
Germany 69 233 789
Estonia 7 561 692
Ireland 13 734 230
Greece 2 258 253
Spain 25 526 629
France 62 899 543
Croatia 1 812 383
Italy 25 017 897
Cyprus 354 997
Latvia 8 452 333
Lithuania 12 631 869
Luxembourg 669 120
Hungary 9 505 286
Malta 119 570
Netherlands 29 937 209
Austria 7 004 590
Poland 28 946 973
Portugal 4 764 178
Romania 11 145 958
Slovenia 1 368 433
Slovakia 2 464 247
Finland 8 985 522
Sweden 8 220 625
United Kingdom 36 072 462