Special fund for the coronavirus pandemic; application for reimbursement of operational costs for disaster management during the coronavirus pandemic

Purpose

Compensation for the operational costs incurred by the disaster control authorities and the organizations in Bavaria obliged to provide disaster relief in coping with the "corona pandemic" disaster situation from 11 November 2021 and from 10 March 2022, extended by the effects of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine, or were incurred during this period. The reimbursement period ended on May 11, 2022.

Subject matter

In particular, expenses for the following typical operational measures are reimbursed

• Establishment and expansion of the disaster management team including specialist advisors and maintenance of operational readiness during the disaster
• Deployment of a FüGK care manager
• Measures of the disaster control authorities to reinforce and maintain the rescue service, insofar as no settlement is possible within the framework of the Bavarian Rescue Service Act (BayRDG)
• Deployment of personnel from the care pool
• Calling in people to perform services and work
• Calling in equipment
• Other operational measures of the disaster control authorities.

Recipients of reimbursement

• The administrative districts and independent municipalities as bearers of the expenses of the district administrative authorities (disaster control authorities),
• the municipalities belonging to the district,
• the administrative communities,
• the districts,
• other corporations, institutions and foundations under public law subject to the supervision of the Free State of Bavaria,
• the voluntary aid organizations and
• the associations of independent welfare organizations.

Type and amount

Reimbursements are granted without own contribution for expenses that

• are directly related to the corona pandemic in terms of time and material,
• were necessary to avert an imminent danger or to avoid high material damage,
• were reasonable and economically justifiable in the context of combating the coronavirus pandemic
• are directly related in time and substance to the effects of the so-called Ukraine crisis and are not regulated by overriding laws and regulations and
• are not related to the accommodation and care of refugees.

Pandemic-related costs will not be reimbursed if the expenses are offset by other means (e.g. offsetting) or can be offset (e.g. by social insurance providers, long-term care funds for expenses incurred by care facilities). The determination of the disaster does not change any civil or public law obligations to bear costs. Double reimbursements due to additional use of other corona measures are excluded.

The costs will be reimbursed without legal entitlement within the framework of the funds available for this purpose in the Special Corona Pandemic Fund. It is not possible to reimburse additional costs from the Civil Protection Fund. Reimbursement of expenses due to the effects of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine will be made from the state budget.

The individual reimbursement requirements can be found in the guideline for the reimbursement of disaster response expenses for the disaster identified from November 11, 2021 to May 11, 2022 due to the corona pandemic and extended from March 10, 2022 to include the effects of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine (SARS-CoV-2 and Ukraine Response Expenditure Reimbursement Guideline). These can be found in the "Legal bases" section.

The applications must be submitted with a factual report to the locally responsible district administrative authority. After a preliminary review, the authority forwards them to the government, which decides on the applications.

Supra-regionally active organizations obliged to provide disaster relief (whose area of responsibility includes more than four district administrative authorities) submit their application directly to the government responsible for the location of their headquarters.

Complete and final applications can be submitted for closed periods. Subsequent submission of additional costs is not permitted.

Applications for reimbursements to compensate for operational costs must be submitted by November 30, 2023.