1.National strategy plans may be updated in the programming period. For such updates one or both of the following elements shall be taken into account:
(a)the update affects one or more of the elements listed in Article 11(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 and/or one or more of the Community strategic guidelines referred to in Article 9 of that Regulation;
(b)the update involves changes of one or more rural development programmes as referred to in Article 6(1) of this Regulation.
2.Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 shall apply mutatis mutandis to updates of national strategy plans.
3.In order to allow sufficient time for rural development programme adaptations, the last update of a national strategy plan shall be forwarded to the Commission by 30 June 2013 at the latest.
4.The national strategy plans shall be confirmed or updated after approval of the rural development programmes notably in light of the quantification of the objectives and targets stemming from the ex-ante evaluation of those programmes.
Revisions of national strategy plans in accordance with Article 12a of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 shall include a revision of the relevant elements set out in Article 11(3) of that Regulation which are related to the priorities foreseen in Article 16a(1) of that Regulation, and, in particular, of the main quantified objectives.
The National Strategy shall identify the approximate and indicative EAFRD contribution referred to in Article 69(5a) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 allocated to each of the priorities referred to in Article 16a(1) of that Regulation in the Member State and shall contain the appropriate explanations related to the allocation.]
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1.The Commission shall approve the rural development programmes submitted by the Member States within a maximum of six months from the date of receipt of the programmes by the Commission. In the case of rural development programmes submitted before the date of entry into force of this Regulation, the six month period shall start from that date.
In cases of application of the second subparagraph of Article 18(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, the six-month period provided for in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall start from the date the revised proposed programme is compliant with the first subparagraph of Article 18(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.
2.The dates for determining the time periods provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be fixed in accordance with Article 63(6) and (8), where applicable.
1.[F2The content of rural development programmes as referred to in Articles 16 and 16a of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 shall be established in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.]
The ex-ante evaluation referred to in Article 85 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 shall be annexed to each rural development programme.
2.National frameworks referred to in Article 15(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 shall contain information common to several measures. For those measures, regional rural development programmes may only contain additional information, provided that information contained jointly under national frameworks and regional programmes complies with the requirements of Annex II to this Regulation.
3.Member States shall make available to the Commission an electronic version of their rural development programmes and national frameworks where applicable, updated following each change, including the standard tables set out in Annex II to this Regulation corresponding to information required in accordance with Article 16(d), (e) and (f) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005. Member States shall forward to the Commission requests for programme changes and national framework changes, where applicable, by electronic means, in accordance with Article 63 of this Regulation.
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