TITLE IIU.K. PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS

CHAPTER IIU.K.Operational funds and operational programmes

Section 3U.K.Operational programmes

Article 30U.K.Relationship with rural development, State aid and promotion programmes

1.Where support under the [F1relevant authority’s] rural development programme or programmes has been granted to operations which are identical to actions that would be potentially eligible under Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, [F2the appropriate authority for the constituent nation concerned] shall ensure that a beneficiary may receive support for a given action only under one scheme.

Where [F3the relevant authority] includes such operations in its rural development programme or programmes, it shall ensure that the [F4strategy referred to in Article 36(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013] indicates the safeguards, provisions and checks put in place to avoid double funding of the same action or operation.

[F52.Producer organisations or associations of producer organisations which have been granted the support provided in Article 27 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 or Article 19 of Commission Regulation (EU) No 702/2014(1) may implement an operational programme in the same period provided that the [F6appropriate authority] ensures that the beneficiaries receive support for any given action only under one scheme.]

3.Where applicable, and without prejudice to Article 34(1) and (3) and Article 35 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, the level of support for measures covered by that Regulation shall not exceed the level applicable for the measures under the rural development programme.

4.Support for environmental actions that are identical to agri-environment-climate or organic farming commitments as referred to in Articles 28 and 29 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 respectively, shall be limited to the maximum amounts laid down in Annex II to that Regulation for agri-environment-climate payments or for organic farming payments. Those amounts may be increased in duly substantiated cases taking account of specific circumstances to be justified in the [F7strategy referred to in Article 36(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013] and in the operational programmes of the producer organisations.

5.Paragraph 4 shall not apply to environmental actions which do not relate directly or indirectly to a particular parcel.

6.Where producer organisations, associations of producer organisations or interbranch organisations benefit from promotion programmes approved under Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council(2), [F8the appropriate authorities] shall ensure that a beneficiary may receive support for a given action only under one scheme.

Textual Amendments

(1)

[F5Commission Regulation (EU) No 702/2014 of 25 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid in the agricultural and forestry sectors and in rural areas compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ( OJ L 193, 1.7.2014, p. 1 ).]

(2)

Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 on information provision and promotion measures concerning agricultural products implemented in the internal market and in third countries and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 (OJ L 317, 4.11.2014, p. 56).