The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Citation | SI 2019/785 |
Year | 2019 |
- This Regulation lays down the common rules applicable to support for rural development
- (5) “Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (‘Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013’)
- Part Two of this Regulation applies to support for rural development except when it explicitly allows for derogations. The Fund-specific Regulations may establish complementary rules to Part Two of this Regulation. The complementary rules in the Fund-specific Regulations must be read consistently with Part Two of this Regulation. In case of doubt about the application between provisions, Part Two of this Regulation prevails over the Fund-specific Regulations.
- (4) “Fund-specific rules” means the provisions laid down in, or established on the basis of, ...Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 ...
- (5) “programming” means the process of organisation, decision-making and allocation of financial resources in several stages, with the involvement of partners in accordance with Article 5, intended to implement, on a multi-annual basis, action by the relevant authority;
- (6) “programme” means F11a ‘rural development programme’ as referred to in Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013;
- (8) “priority”, in F12Part Two of this Regulation, means a priority for rural development referred to in Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 ...;
- (15) “public expenditure” means any public contribution to the financing or operations the source of which is the budget of national, regional or local public authorities, the budget of the Union related to the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development ..., the budget of public law bodies or the budget of associations of public authorities or of public law bodies;
- (16) “public law body” means any body governed by public law within the criteria in paragraphs (a) to (c) of point 9 of Article 1 of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
- (36) ”irregularity” means any breach of the law as it applies in the constituent nation resulting from an act or omission by an economic operator involved in the implementation of support for rural development ..., which has, or would have, the effect of charging an unjustified item of expenditure to a programme budget;
- (37) ”economic operator” means any natural or legal person or other entity taking part in the implementation of support for rural development ..., with the exception of a relevant authority exercising its prerogatives as a public authority;
- (40) ‘Financial Regulation’ means Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union as it had effect immediately before F8IP completion day;
- (41) “CMO support” means financial support granted under Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 or any of the delegated or implementing acts adopted on the basis of that regulation or of Commission Regulation (EU) No 1234/2007;
- (42) “direct payment support” means financial support granted under any of the support schemes listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013;
- (43) “constituent nation” means England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, as the case may be; ...
- (44) “relevant authority” means—
-
(a) in respect of support under rural development
(i) in England, the Secretary of State, (ii) in Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, (iii) in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers, (iv) in Wales, the Welsh Ministers, - (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
To continue reading
Request your trial