Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014Show full title

CHAPTER VI TRANSPARENCY

Article 57 Content of the publication

1. The information referred to in Article 111(1)(c) and (d) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 shall include:

(a) the breakdown of the amounts of payments referred to in point (c) of that Article for each individual measure listed in Annex XIII of this Regulation, as well as the sum of the those amounts received by each beneficiary in the financial year concerned;

(b) a description of the measures financed by the Funds, as referred to in point (d) of that Article and listed in Annex XIII of this Regulation, including the nature and the objective of each measure.

2. The amounts referred to in paragraph 1 are expressed in euro in Member States which have adopted the euro and in the national currency in other Member States.

3. Member States may publish more detailed information than that provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2, without prejudice to the necessary protection of privacy.

Article 58 Publication of municipality

Where the information to be published for the purposes of the third paragraph of Article 112 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 would, due to the limited number of beneficiaries residing or registered in a given municipality, allow for the identification of a natural person as a beneficiary, the Member State concerned shall publish as information, for the purposes of point (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 111(1) of that Regulation, the next larger administrative entity of which the municipality in question is part of.

Article 59 Form and date of publication

1. The information to be made available on a single website as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 111(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 shall be accessible through a search tool allowing the users to search for beneficiaries by either name, or municipality as referred to in Article 58 of this Regulation, or amounts received or by measure or by a combination thereof and to extract all the corresponding information as a single set of data. That information shall be provided in the official language or languages of the Member State and/or in one of the three working languages of the Commission.

2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be published by 31 May each year for the preceding financial year.

3. In accordance with that Article, the information shall remain available on the website for two years from the date of their initial publication.

Article 60 Information of the beneficiaries

The information of the beneficiaries referred to in Article 113 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 shall be provided to the beneficiaries by including it in the application forms for receiving funds deriving from the Funds, or otherwise at the time when the data are collected.

By way of derogation from the first paragraph, as regards data related to payments received in the financial years 2014 and 2015, the information of the beneficiaries shall be provided at least two months before the date of publication.

Article 61 Publication of thresholds related to the Small farmers scheme

The amounts notified by Member States in accordance with the second paragraph of Article 112 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 shall be published on the Union website referred to in Article 62(1) of this Regulation.

Article 62 Cooperation between the Commission and Member States

1. The Commission shall set up and maintain a Union website under its central internet address which includes links to the websites of Member States. The Commission shall provide updated internet links according to the information sent by Member States.

2. Member States shall provide the Commission with their websites’ internet addresses as soon as they have been set up as well as any subsequent changes thereof having an influence on the accessibility of their websites from the Union website.

3. Member States shall nominate a body in charge of setting up and maintaining the single website referred to in Article 59(1). They shall inform the Commission of the name and address details of that body.