| Criteria | Member States | ERDF and ESFPercentage of eligible expenditure | Cohesion FundPercentage of eligible expenditure |
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| 1.Member States whose average GDP per capita for the period 2001 to 2003 was below 85 % of the EU-25 average during the same period | Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia | 85 % for the Convergence and Regional competitiveness and employment objectives | 85 % |
| 2.Member States other than those under (1) eligible for the transitional regime of the Cohesion Fund on 1 January 2007 | Spain | 80 % for the Convergence and the phasing-in regions under the Regional competitiveness and employment objective50 % for the Regional competitiveness and employment objective outside phasing-in regions | 85 % |
| 3.Member States other than those referred to under 1 and 2 | Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and United Kingdom | 75 % for the Convergence objective | — |
| 4.Member States other than those referred to under 1 and 2 | Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, Sweden and United Kingdom | 50 % for the Regional competitiveness and employment objective | — |
| 5.Outermost Regions referred to in Article 299(2) of the Treaty benefiting from the additional allocation for these regions provided for in paragraph 20 of Annex II | Spain, France and Portugal | 50 % | — |
| 6.Outermost Regions referred to in Article 299(2) of the Treaty | Spain, France and Portugal | 85 % under the Convergence and Regional competitiveness and employment objectives | —" |