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CHAPTER IIIU.K. FINAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 3 U.K. State aid, repeal, transitional provisions, and entry into force and date of application

Article 27U.K.State aid

By way of derogation from Article 211(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and from Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006(1), as well as by virtue of the first paragraph of Article 42 TFEU, Articles 107, 108 and 109 TFEU shall not apply to payments made by Member States pursuant to this Regulation and in compliance with its provisions, nor shall they apply to financial contributions coming from Member States’ parafiscal charges, mandatory contributions or other financial instruments, in the case of programmes eligible for Union support which the Commission has selected in accordance with this Regulation.

Article 28U.K.Repeal

Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 is hereby repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as being references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 29U.K.Transitional provisions

1.Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 shall continue to apply to those information and promotion measures for which funding has been decided by the Commission before 1 December 2015.

2.The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 22 in order to ensure a smooth transition between the application of Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 and this Regulation.

Article 30U.K.Entry into force and date of application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 December 2015.

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Council Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006 of 24 July 2006 applying certain rules of competition to the production of, and trade in, agricultural products (OJ L 214, 4.8.2006, p. 7).