CHAPTER IIICLEARANCE OF ACCOUNTS

SECTION 2Clearance

Article 36Conciliation Body

For the purpose of the conformity clearance procedure provided for in Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, a Conciliation Body shall be established. It shall perform the following tasks:

  1. (a)

    to examine any matter referred to it by a Member State which has received a formal communication from the Commission pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 34(3) of this Regulation, including an evaluation of expenditure which the Commission intends to exclude from Union financing;

  2. (b)

    to try to reconcile the divergent positions of the Commission and the Member State concerned;

  3. (c)

    at the end of its examination, to draw up a report on the results of its reconciliation efforts, making any remarks it deems useful should all or some of the points of dispute remain unresolved.