7.—(1) For Article 26 substitute—
“Support for rural development and support under Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 must be implemented through programmes. Each programmes shall cover the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2020.”.
(2) In Article 27—
(a)omit the first subparagraph of paragraph 1;
(b)in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1, for “the ESI Funds” substitute “support for rural development and support under Regulation (EU) No 508/2014”;
(c)in paragraph 2—
(i)for “from the ESI Funds” substitute “for rural development and support under Regulation (EU) No 508/2014”;
(ii)omit “, including amounts related to the performance reserve,”;
(d)omit paragraph 3;
(e)in paragraph 4, for “For each ESI Fund, the” substitute “The”;
(f)in paragraph 7, for “Member States”, substitute “The authority with responsibility for preparing the programme”.
(3) Omit Articles 28 and 29.
(4) For Article 30 substitute—
“Programmes may be amended by the relevant authority as set out in the Fund-specific regulations. The relevant authority must take into account this Regulation, the Fund-specific rules, the horizontal principles referred to in Article 5-7 and the expected impact of the changes to the programme on the programme’s objectives.”
(5) Omit Article 31.
(6) In Article 32 —
(a)for paragraph 1 substitute—
“1. Support for rural development must be provided by the relevant authority for community-led led local development. The relevant authority may provide support under Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 for community-led local development. For the purposes of this Chapter, “the support concerned” means, collectively, support for rural development and support under Regulation (EU) No 508/2014.”;
(b)for the first sentence of paragraph 3, substitute “Where the support concerned is made available to community-led local development it must be done so in a consistent and coordinated way.”;
(c)omit paragraph 4;
(d)for paragraph 5 substitute—
“(5) Community-led local development funded by the support concerned must be carried out under one or more priorities of the relevant programme or programmes in accordance with the Fund-specific rules.”.
(7) In Article 33—
(a)in paragraph 1—
(i)for the last sentence of point (c) substitute “The strategy shall be consistent with the relevant programmes.”;
(ii)in point (g), for “each of the ESI Funds concerned” substitute “the support concerned”;
(b)in paragraph 2, for “Member States” substitute “The relevant authority”;
(c)omit paragraph 4;
(d)in paragraph 5, for “of each of the ESI Funds concerned” substitute “from the relevant programmes”;
(e)in paragraph 6 omit the second sentence.
(8) In paragraph 1 of Article 34, for “Member States” substitute “The relevant authority”.
(9) In the heading to Article 35 omit “from the ESI Funds”;
(10) In paragraph 1 of Article 35, omit “from the ESI Funds concerned” substitute “The support concerned”.
(11) Omit Article 36.