Article 93

1. A regional allocation shall be used for operations benefiting and involving: two or more OCTs regardless of their location; one or more OCTs and one or more outermost regions referred to in Article 349 TFEU; one or more OCTs and one or more neighbouring ACP and/or non-ACP States; one or more OCTs, one or more outermost regions and one or more ACP and/or non-ACP States; two or more regional bodies of which OCTs are members; one or more OCTs and regional bodies of which OCTs, ACP States or one or more of the outermost regions are members; the OCTs and the Union as a whole; or one or more entities, authorities or other bodies from at least one OCTs, being members of an EGTC in accordance with Article 8, one or more outermost regions and one or more neighbouring ACP and/or non-ACP States. 2. The funding to enable participation of the ACP States, outermost regions and other countries shall be additional to funds allocated to the OCTs under this Decision. 3. The participation of ACP States, outermost regions and other countries to programmes established pursuant to this Decision shall be envisaged only to the extent that: the centre of gravity of the projects and programmes funded under the multi-annual financial framework of cooperation remains in an OCTs; equivalent provisions exist in the framework of the Union’s financial instruments; and the principle of proportionality is respected. 4. Appropriate measures will allow for matching of funding of credits from the EDF and the general budget of the Union to finance cooperation projects between the OCTs, the ACP Countries, the outermost regions as well as other countries, in particular simplified mechanisms for joint management of such projects.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.