PART TWOF3COMMON PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SUPPORT FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

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TITLE VIIFINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE ESI FUNDS

CHAPTER IIIEligibility of expenditure and durability

E1Article 70F1Eligibility of operations depending on location

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Subject to the derogations referred to in paragraph 2 and the Fund-specific rules, operations supported by F11support for rural development shall be located in the programme area.

Operations concerning the provision of services to citizens or businesses which cover the whole territory of a F5relevant authority shall be considered as being located in all programme areas within a F15constituent nation. In such cases, expenditure shall be allocated to the concerned programme areas on a pro-rata basis, based on objective criteria.

The second subparagraph of this paragraph does not apply to the national programme referred to in Article 6(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 or to the specific programme for the establishment and the operation of the national rural network referred to in Article 54(1) of that Regulation.

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The managing authority may accept that an operation is implemented outside the programme area F16... provided that all the following conditions are satisfied:

a

the operation is for the benefit of the programme area;

b

F13the total amount allocated under the programme to operations located outside the programme area does not exceed 15% of the support for rural development at the level of the priority at the time of the adoption of the programme;

c

the monitoring committee has given its agreement to the operation or types of operations concerned;

d

the obligations of the authorities for the programme in relation to management, control and audit concerning the operation are fulfilled by the authorities responsible for the programme under which that operation is supported or they enter into agreements with authorities in the area in which the operation is implemented.

Where operations F12... are implemented outside the programme area in accordance with this paragraph and have benefits both outside and within the programme area, such expenditure shall be allocated to those areas on a pro rata basis based on objective criteria.

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For operations concerning technical assistance or information, communication and visibility measures and promotional activities, and for operations concerning the thematic objective referred to in point (1) of the first paragraph of Article 9, expenditure may be incurred outside F10the constituent nations provided that the expenditure is necessary for the satisfactory implementation of the operation.

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E2Article 70F18Eligibility of operations depending on location

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Subject to the derogations referred to in paragraph 2 F7..., operations supported by F17support for rural development shall be located in the programme area.

Operations concerning the provision of services to citizens or businesses which cover the whole territory of a F25relevant authority shall be considered as being located in all programme areas within a F19constituent nation. In such cases, expenditure shall be allocated to the concerned programme areas on a pro-rata basis, based on objective criteria.

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The managing authority may accept that an operation is implemented outside the programme area F22... provided that all the following conditions are satisfied:

a

the operation is for the benefit of the programme area;

b

F24the total amount allocated under the programme to operations located outside the programme area does not exceed 15% of the support for rural development at the level of the priority at the time of the adoption of the programme;

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d

the obligations of the authorities for the programme in relation to management, control and audit concerning the operation are fulfilled by the authorities responsible for the programme under which that operation is supported or they enter into agreements with authorities in the area in which the operation is implemented.

Where operations F21... are implemented outside the programme area in accordance with this paragraph and have benefits both outside and within the programme area, such expenditure shall be allocated to those areas on a pro rata basis based on objective criteria.

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For operations concerning F4... information, communication and visibility measures and promotional activities F8... expenditure may be incurred outside F26the constituent nations provided that the expenditure is necessary for the satisfactory implementation of the operation.

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