it has allocated vs it had allocated

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'It has allocated' is used in the present perfect tense to indicate an action that started in the past and has relevance to the present. 'It had allocated' is used in the past perfect tense to indicate an action that was completed before another past action. The choice between the two depends on the timeline of the events being described.

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it has allocated

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English in the present perfect tense.

Use 'it has allocated' in the present perfect tense to indicate an action that started in the past and has relevance to the present.

Examples:

The company has allocated funds for the new project.
The government has allocated resources to support the local community.

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This year, it has allocated the highest ever budget for assistance to Somalia, amounting to EUR 20 million.
On notification by the Commission of the identification number it has allocated on receipt of the summary information.
On notification by the Commission of the identification number it has allocated on receipt of the summary information
Will the Commission provide full details of how it anticipates the EUR 15 million it has allocated to the International Fund for Ireland in 2007 will be spent?
The Commission shall publish a list of the notified bodies, together with the identification numbers it has allocated to them and the tasks for which they have been notified, in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
Through the 9th European Development Fund it has allocated over EUR 13 million to implement a rehabilitation support programme for Chad and the Central African Republic.
At the same time it has allocated a substantial volume of humanitarian aid, amounting of over ECU 45 million in 1998 alone.
regrets that one group has only now, in the context of the annual report, informed the President of Parliament of the accumulated capital of a public foundation created under Luxembourg law to which it has allocated funds;
Would the Commission supply details of the aid which it has allocated to the Apurimac region, list the beneficiary projects and provide information concerning the results and effects produced by the aid?
I am sure that the Commission, too, would like to say something about the blocking of the funds it has allocated to the League, but I do not myself propose to say anything further on the subject.
The Commission shall publish a list of the notified bodies, together with the identification numbers it has allocated to them and the tasks for which they have been notified, in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It has been allocated EUR 6.5 million.
The STER is responsible for the broadcasting time which it has been allocated.
So far, it has only allocated a small amount of this aid.
The measures are granted by individual decisions taken by the LG to make use of funds that it has been allocated in its annual budget by the regional assembly of Åland.
This will give Parliament not only power over the budget, but power over control of expenditure once it has been allocated to the separate agencies.
It is to be hoped that in turn, each Member State will allocate the permits that it has been allocated with equally objective criteria to its hauliers.
In a procedure launched in 2002, it has been already allocated a licence for operating a nation-wide DVB-T multiplex.
Support under the basic payment scheme shall be granted to farmers, by means of declaration in accordance with Article 33(1), upon activation of a payment entitlement per eligible hectare in the Member State where it has been allocated.
In view of these worrying facts, what funds will the Commission be allocating, or has it already allocated, to tackle the famine emergency in the Horn of Africa?

Alternatives:

It has been allocated
It has assigned
It has distributed
It has set aside
It has earmarked

it had allocated

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English in the past perfect tense.

Use 'it had allocated' in the past perfect tense to indicate an action that was completed before another past action.