Article 7Drafting and forwarding information and promotion programmes
1.Member States shall define the specifications setting the conditions and evaluation criteria for information and promotion programmes.
The Member State(s) concerned shall examine the suitability of proposals for programmes and shall verify conformity with this Regulation, the guidelines drawn up under Article 5 and the relevant specifications. They shall also check that the programme offers value for money.
After examining the programme(s), the Member State(s) shall draw up a list of programmes selected within the limit of available funds and shall undertake to contribute to financing these programmes, where appropriate.
2.Member State(s) shall forward to the Commission the list of programmes referred to in the third subparagraph of paragraph 1, and a copy of these programmes.
If the Commission finds that a programme which has been submitted or some of the measures therein are not in line with Community rules or, for the measures to be carried out on the internal market, with the guidelines referred to in Article 5, or they do not offer value for money, it shall notify the Member State(s) concerned of the ineligibility of all or part of that programme, within a time limit to be determined, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 16(2). Once this time limit has been exceeded and no such notification is sent, the programme shall be deemed eligible.
Member State(s) shall take account of any observations made by the Commission and shall forward to it the revised programmes in accordance with the proposing organisation(s) referred to in Article 6(1) within a time limit to be set under the procedure referred to in Article 16(2).