Federal Financial Assistance Act, pursuant to Article 104a (4) of the Basic Law, to the Länder of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

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Date of completion: 19.12.1986

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" Act on financial assistance of the Federal Republic of Germany pursuant to Article 104a (4) of the Basic Law to the Länder of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg of 19 December 1986 (BGBl. I p. 2584) "

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(+ + + Text evidence from: 1. 1.1987 + + +) Unofficial table of contents

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With the approval of the Federal Council, the Bundestag has adopted the following law: Unofficial table of contents

§ 1

The federal government grants the Länder Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen as well as the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg financial support for particularly significant investments to improve their economic strength in the amount of a total of 300.000,000 Deutsche Mark. The grants will be awarded in 1987 and 1988 in annual amounts of 150,000,000 Deutsche Mark. Of these annual amounts, Schleswig-Holstein will receive 52,500,000 Deutsche Mark, Lower Saxony 30,000,000 Deutsche Mark, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 37,500,000 Deutsche Mark as well as the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg 30,000,000 Deutsche Mark. Unofficial table of contents

§ 2

The grants will support investment measures aimed at improving infrastructure, in particular transport infrastructure, in order to compensate for different economic power. Unofficial table of contents

§ 3

Follow-up and follow-up measures shall only be encouraged if they are directly related to the measures in accordance with § 2. Unofficial table of contents

§ 4

(1) Grants shall be awarded in accordance with the annual funding lists of the countries which are to be updated annually. The eligible lists shall contain the individual measures provided for, the amount of eligible expenditure, the financing plan, the expected implementation period and a brief description of the measures. (2) The Länder shall send the Federal Government annually up to 1. (3) The Federal Government is entitled to exclude individual measures from the promotion if it is of its kind in accordance with the purpose of this Act: (4) The Federation may recover financial aid from a country if it has made use of its right under § 4 (3) and the country has nevertheless promoted the rejected measure from grants from the Federal Government. The same shall apply if, in the case of timely information on the measure, it could have been rejected in accordance with Article 4 (3), but the country has nevertheless promoted this measure from grants from the Federal Government, without giving him the opportunity to exercise that right. . The amounts to be deducted from the Federal Government in accordance with the first and second sentences are to be charged by the Land at the rate of 6 per cent from the date on which the claim was made. (5) The amounts which the countries of the latter are not used for purposes other than those of the latter. , shall be forwarded to the Federal Government at the level of its financing share, unless otherwise appropriate use of these funds by the respective country under this Act is possible; the same shall apply to: Interest amounts. Unofficial table of contents

§ 5

(1) The federal financial aid amounts to 65 per cent of the eligible expenditure. (2) The federal budget is given to the Länder for independent management. The ministers and senators of the countries ' finances are authorized to instruct the competent federal funds for the payment of the necessary cash funds to the competent national coffers. Unofficial table of contents

§ 6

Within five months of the end of the financial year, the Länder shall send a report to the Federal Government on the implementation and the state of the measures. They also report on the level of the approved, the federal funds paid out to them and the extant federal funds. (2) The countries also report on the respective conclusion of a measure. The report shall contain a number of proof and a presentation of the facts. Unofficial table of contents

§ 7

This law shall also apply in the Land of Berlin in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 (1) of the Third Transfer Act. Unofficial table of contents

§ 8

This Act shall enter into force on 1 January 1987.