‘10.   For the purpose of calculating the operational contribution pursuant to Article 82 of the Agreement, the commitment and payment appropriations entered in the European Union budget definitively adopted for the applicable years for financing the Horizon Europe Programme (established by Regulation (EU) 2021/695 of the European Parliament and of the Council) and the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (governed by Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council), shall be increased by the appropriations corresponding to external assigned revenue allocated to those activities under Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EU) 2020/2094 of 14 December 2020 establishing a European Union Recovery Instrument to support the recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis (5).

11.   For the purpose of calculating the proportionality factor for budget lines exclusively carrying payments for completion of commitments signed under the 2014-2020 and preceding multiannual financial frameworks, the EFTA proportionality factor as defined in Article 82(1) of the Agreement shall be the sum of the ratios between, on the one hand, the gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices of each of the EFTA States and, on the other hand, the sum of the GDPs at market prices of the EU Member States, of the United Kingdom and of that EFTA State. This factor shall be calculated, for each budgetary year, on the basis of the most recent statistical data in accordance with Article 7.

12.   Unless otherwise agreed by the EEA Joint Committee, for the purpose of calculating the proportionality factor as defined under Article 82(1) of the Agreement for the budgetary year during which an agreement on the accession of a new Member State, as referred to in Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union, enters into force before 1 July, the GDP at market prices of EU Member States shall include the GDP at market prices of the new Member State.

13.   Unless otherwise agreed by the EEA Joint Committee, for the purpose of calculating the proportionality factor as defined under Article 82(1) of the Agreement for the budgetary year during which an agreement on the withdrawal of a Member State, as referred to in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, enters into force after 1 July, the GDP at market prices of EU Member States shall include the GDP at market prices of the withdrawing Member State.’

‘Article 8

Specific rules for participation in budgetary guarantees

Specific financial modalities for contributions of EFTA States related to participation in budgetary guarantees, including the procedure for the determination of the financial participation therein, shall be set in specific contribution agreements that may complement the modalities set in this Protocol. The contribution shall consist of a contribution for the partial provisioning of the budgetary guarantee and the assumption of the respective contingent liability, or shall alternatively be a cash contribution to the full provisioning of the budgetary guarantee, based on the conditions set out in the specific contribution agreements.’