Article 52

The contribution from the Funds may be modulated in the light of the following: the gravity of the specific problems, in particular of an economic, social or territorial nature; the importance of each priority axis for the Community's priorities as set out in the Community strategic guidelines on cohesion, as well as for national and regional priorities; protection and improvement of the environment, principally through the application of the precautionary principle, the principle of preventive action, and the polluter-pays principle; the rate of mobilisation of private financing, in particular under public-private partnerships, in the fields concerned; the inclusion of interregional cooperation as referred to in Article 37(6)(b) under the Convergence and Regional competitiveness and employment objectives; under the Regional competitiveness and employment objective, the coverage of areas with a geographical or natural handicap defined as follows: island Member States eligible under the Cohesion Fund, and other islands except those on which the capital of a Member State is situated or which have a fixed link to the mainland; mountainous areas as defined by the national legislation of the Member State; sparsely (less than 50 inhabitants per square kilometre) and very sparsely (less than 8 inhabitants per square kilometre) populated areas; the areas which were external borders of the Community on 30 April 2004 and which ceased to be so on the day after that date.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.