1.In order to be allocated an additional amount for resettled persons as provided for in Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) No 516/2014, each Member State shall provide the Commission with an estimate of the number of persons that it plans to resettle in any of the following periods:
(a)the years 2014 and 2015;
(b)the years 2016 and 2017;
(c)the years 2018, 2019 and 2020.
2.The estimates shall include the number of persons falling within any of the priority categories and groups of persons defined in Article 17(2) of Regulation (EU) No 516/2014. They shall be submitted through the electronic data exchange system established by Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 802/2014, as follows:
(a)the estimate for the years 2014 and 2015 shall be included in the Member State's national programme submitted in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) No 514/2014;
(b)the estimate for the years 2016 and 2017 shall be submitted by 15 September 2015;
(c)the estimate for the years 2018 to 2020 shall be submitted by 15 September 2017.
3.The Commission shall examine the estimates and, as soon as possible, decide on the additional amounts to be allocated to each Member State, as provided for in Article 17(9) of Regulation (EU) No 516/2014.
1.In order to qualify for the additional amount, the persons concerned shall be effectively resettled from the beginning of the period concerned and up to six months following the end of that period.
The Member States shall keep the information necessary to allow proper identification of the resettled persons and of the date of their resettlement.
For persons falling within any of the priority categories and groups of persons referred to in Article 17(2) of Regulation (EU) No 516/2014, Member States shall also keep the evidence that they belong to the relevant priority category or group of persons.
2.Each Member State which has been allocated an additional amount for resettlement shall include in the annual accounts provided for in Article 39 of Regulation (EU) No 514/2014, the number of resettled persons qualifying for the additional amount, of which the number of persons falling within any of the priority categories and groups of persons defined in Article 17(2) of Regulation (EU) No 516/2014. Each resettled person may be counted only once.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in the Member States in accordance with the Treaties.
Done at Brussels, 24 July 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso