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Additionality Financing and investment operations shall fulfil both aspects of additionality as referred to in point (b) of Article 209(2) of the Financial Regulation. That means that the operations would not have been carried out or would not have been carried out to the same extent by other public or private sources without support from the InvestEU Fund. For the purposes of this Regulation, those operations shall be understood as financing and investment operations having to meet the following two criteria: to be considered additional to the private sources referred to in point (b) of Article 209(2) of the Financial Regulation, the InvestEU Fund shall support the financing and investment operations of the implementing partners by targeting investments which, due to their characteristics (public good nature, externalities, information asymmetries, socio-economic cohesion considerations or other), are unable to generate sufficient market-level financial returns or are perceived to be too risky (compared to the risk levels that the relevant private entities are willing to accept). Because of those characteristics, such financing and investment operations cannot access market financing at reasonable conditions in terms of pricing, collateral requirements, the type of finance, the tenor of financing provided or other conditions, and would not be undertaken in the Union at all or to the same extent without public support; to be considered additional to existing support from other public sources referred to in point (b) of Article 209(2) of the Financial Regulation the InvestEU Fund shall only support financing and investment operations for which the following conditions apply: the financing and investment operations would not have been carried out or would not have been carried out to the same extent by the implementing partner without support from the InvestEU Fund; and the financing and investment operations would not have been carried out or would not have been carried out to the same extent in the Union under other existing public instruments, such as shared management financial instruments that operate at regional or national level, although the complementary use of InvestEU Fund and other public sources has to be possible, in particular where Union added value can be achieved and where the use of public sources to achieve policy objectives in an efficient manner can be optimised.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-30 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.