Without prejudice to any decisions granting aid under the IPARD Programme to individual beneficiaries, the rules for eligibility of expenditure proposed by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia by letter No 08-44/82 of 22 October 2008 and letter No 08-77/16 of 24 February 2009, registered in the Commission respectively on 21 November 2008 under No A/31025 and on 24 March 2009 under No A/7937, shall apply.