Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013
7.—(1) Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006(1) is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 37—
(a)in paragraph (1), omit “State aid and”;
(b)in paragraph (2), in point (b), omit “possible State aid implications,”;
(c)in paragraph (4)—
(i)omit “without prejudice to applicable Union State aid rules, and”;
(ii)omit “within the limits of applicable Union State aid rules and”;
(d)in paragraph (7), omit “applicable Union State aid rules shall be respected and”;
(e)in paragraph (9), omit “, subject to applicable Union State aid rules,”;
(f)omit paragraph (12).
(3) In Article 42(3), omit “State aid rules are complied with and that”.
(4) In Article 43a, omit paragraph (4).
(5) In Article 61, omit paragraph (8).
(6) In Article 62, omit “State aid and”.
(7) In Article 65(8), omit point (e).
(8) In Article 71—
(a)in paragraph (1), omit “or within the period of time set out in State aid rules, where applicable,”;
(b)in paragraph (2), omit the final sentence;
(c)omit paragraph (3).
(9) In Annex 11, in the table in Part 2, omit row 5.
EUR 1303/2013, as amended by S.I 2019/748, S.I. 2019/785 and S.I. 2019/1422.