1.Reductions of Community financial assistance, referred to in Articles 8(5)(a) and 8(5)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 199/2008, shall be proportionate to the number of weeks of delay counted from the deadlines referred to in Articles 2 and 5. The proportion of reduction shall be 2 % of the total Community financial assistance for each two weeks period of delay, with a maximum reduction of 25 % of the total annual cost of the national programme.
2.Reductions of Community financial assistance referred to in Article 8(5)(c) of Council Regulation (EC) No 199/2008 shall be proportionate to the number of failures to deliver data to end-users. The proportion of reduction shall be 1 % of the total Community financial assistance per failure to satisfy a demand, with a maximum reduction of 25 % of the total annual cost of the national programme.
3.In cases where both paragraphs 1 and 2 apply the maximum cumulated reduction shall not exceed 25 % of the total annual cost of the national programme.