Article 1 1 This Regulation relates to scrutiny of the commercial documents of those entities receiving or making payments relating directly or indirectly to the system of financing by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF), or their representatives, hereinafter ‘undertakings’, in order to ascertain whether transactions forming part of the system of financing by the EAGF have actually been carried out and have been executed correctly.
2 This Regulation shall not apply to measures covered by the integrated administration and control system falling within Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers. The Commission shall, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 41(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, establish a list of other measures to which this Regulation does not apply.
OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 293/2008 (OJ L 90, 2.4.2008, p. 5).
3 For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:
(a) ‘commercial documents’ means all books, registers, vouchers and supporting documents, accounts, production and quality records, and correspondence relating to the undertaking’s business activity, as well as commercial data, in whatever form they may take, including electronically stored data, in so far as these documents or data relate directly or indirectly to the transactions referred to in paragraph 1;
(b) ‘third party’ means any natural or legal person directly or indirectly connected with transactions carried out within the financing system by the EAGF.