CHAPTER IIU.K.Paying agencies and other bodies
Article 7U.K.[Designation of paying agencies and coordinated action by relevant authorities]
[1.Paying agencies shall be departments or bodies designated by the relevant authority, which have an administrative organisation and a system of internal control that provide sufficient guarantees that payments are legal and regular, and properly accounted for.
2.The number of paying agencies shall be restricted to no more than one per constituent nation.
3.Paying agencies shall be responsible for the management and control of expenditure on direct payments. With the exception of payment, the carrying out of those tasks may be delegated.
4.The relevant authorities shall have joint responsibility for the following tasks:
(a)to take or coordinate, as the case may be, actions with a view to resolving deficiencies of a common nature;
(b)to promote and, where possible, ensure harmonised application of sectoral agricultural legislation.]
[1.Paying agencies shall be departments or bodies designated by the relevant authority, which have an administrative organisation and a system of internal control that provide sufficient guarantees that payments are legal and regular, and properly accounted for.
2.The number of paying agencies shall be restricted to no more than one per constituent nation. However, the relevant authorities may jointly designate a single paying agency for the UK to manage aid schemes which, by their nature, have to be managed at UK level.
3.Paying agencies shall be responsible for the management and control of expenditure on agricultural support. With the exception of payment, the carrying out of those tasks may be delegated.
4.The relevant authorities shall have joint responsibility for the following tasks:
(a)to take or coordinate, as the case may be, actions with a view to resolving deficiencies of a common nature;
(b)to promote and, where possible, ensure harmonised application of sectoral agricultural legislation.
5.The paying agencies shall manage and ensure the control of the operations linked to public intervention for which they are responsible and they shall retain overall responsibility in that field.
[5A.Paragraph 5 does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes in England, otherwise than in connection with exceptional market conditions which are the subject of a declaration under section 20 of the Agriculture Act 2020.]
[5B.Paragraph 5 ceases to apply in relation to public intervention schemes in Scotland, otherwise than in connection with public intervention measures which the appropriate authority takes under Article 219(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, for a period of five years beginning on 1 July 2023.]]
[Article 8U.K.[Commission powers][Powers]
1.To ensure the sound operation of the system provided for in Article 7, the [appropriate authority may make regulations] concerning:
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(b)the obligations of the paying agencies as regards public intervention, as well as the rules on the content of their management and control responsibilities.
[1A.Paragraph 1 does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes in England, otherwise than in connection with exceptional market conditions which are the subject of a declaration under section 20 of the Agriculture Act 2020.]
[1B.Paragraph 1 ceases to apply in relation to public intervention schemes in Scotland, otherwise than in connection with public intervention measures which the appropriate authority takes under Article 219(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, for a period of five years beginning on 1 July 2023.]
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Article 9U.K.Certification bodies
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Article 10U.K.Admissibility of payments made by the paying agencies
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Article 11U.K.Payment in full to beneficiaries
Except where otherwise explicitly provided ..., payments relating to the financing provided for in this Regulation shall be disbursed in full to the beneficiaries.