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These Regulations provide for the administration in the United Kingdom of certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No. 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy (OJ No. L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 549) and two other associated EU Regulations referred to in regulation 1(2).
Regulations 2 and 3 prescribe that in respect of the common agricultural policy the Ministers (that is, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Northern Ireland), acting jointly, are to—
(a)exercise the functions of the competent authority with responsibilities for and relating to the accreditation of paying agencies; the designation and accreditation of the coordinating body; the designation of any certification body and the nomination of the body in charge of setting up and maintaining a single website containing information relating to the beneficiaries of Common Agricultural Policy funds; and
(b)exercise the functions of the coordinating body which is assigned tasks relating to collecting and supplying information to the European Commission, coordinating the resolution of any common deficiencies and the harmonised application of EU rules between paying agencies.
Regulation 4 requires the Secretary of State to review the operation and effect of these Regulations and publish a report within five years after 1st January 2015 and within every five years after that.
No impact assessment has been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.
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