1. Financial contributions shall consist of transfers of amounts from the contributing Member States to the Union budget and shall constitute external assigned revenue in accordance with Article 21(5) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council (42) . Financial contributions shall be used for the purpose of implementing the actions of the Annual Solidarity Pool referred to in Article 56(2), point (b) of this Regulation.
2. Benefitting Member States shall identify actions which may be funded by the financial contributions referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article and submit them to the Technical-Level Forum. The Commission shall liaise closely with benefitting Member States with a view to ensuring that those actions correspond to the objectives set out in Article 56(2), point (b), and Article 56(3). The EU Solidarity Coordinator shall maintain an inventory of the actions and make it available through the Technical-Level Forum.
3. The Commission shall adopt an implementing act concerning rules on the operation of the financial contributions. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 77(2).
4. Where the amount referred to in Article 57(1) of this Regulation is not fully allocated, the remaining amount may be added to the amount referred to in Article 10(2), point (b), of .
5. Member States shall report to the Commission and to the Technical-Level Forum on the progress in the implementation of actions financed by financial contributions pursuant to this Article.
6. The Commission shall include in its Report referred to in Article 9 information on the implementation of actions financed by financial contributions pursuant to this Article, including on issues that might affect the implementation and any measure taken to address them.
42. Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 (OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1). ↩︎