The Rural Development (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Amendment of Titles VI (management, control and publicity), VII (monitoring and evaluation), VIII (competition provisions) and IX (common provisions and transitional and final provisions)

8.—(1) Omit Article 64.

(2) In Article 65—

(a) omit paragraph 1;

(b) in paragraph 2—

(i) for the words above point (a) substitute “The relevant authority shall ensure each rural development programme is administered by the following bodies:”;

(ii) in point (a), for “Member State” substitute “relevant authority”;

(c) in paragraphs 3 and 4, for “Member States”, in each place it occurs, substitute “The relevant authority”.

(3) In Article 66—

(a) in paragraph 1 —

(i) omit point (d);

(ii) in point (e) omit “and the Commission”;

(iii) in point (g) for “, and, after approval by the Monitoring Committee, submitting it to the Commission” substitute “and submitting it to the Monitoring Committee for approval”;

(iv) omit point (i);

(b) in paragraph 2 omit “Member State or the”;

(c) omit paragraph 3;

(d) for paragraph 4 substitute—

“4.   Subject to the role of the paying agencies and other bodies as set out in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, a co-ordinating body may be designated with the purpose of ensuring consistency in the management of the programmes between constituent nations.”;

(e) omit paragraph 5.

(4) In Article 69—

(a) in paragraph 1 omit “at Union level”;

(b) in paragraph 2 omit “Union,”.

(c) in paragraph 3 omit the second sentence.

(5) Omit Article 73.

(6) In Article 74(e), omit from “before they are sent to the Commission”.

(7) In Article 75—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) for “Member State” substitute “Managing Authority”;

(ii) for “Commission” substitute “Monitoring Committee”.

(b) omit paragraph 3;

(c) in paragraph 4—

(i) omit from “, a description” to “programme and”;

(ii) omit “the EAFRD and other EU”.

(8) Omit Articles 76 to 79.

(9) For Article 82 substitute—

“Article 82

Additional financing

Payments in relation to operations for the production of, and trade in, agricultural products, and intended to provide additional financing for rural development for which support is granted at any time during the programming period, shall be included by relevant authorities in the rural development programme as provided for in paragraph 1(j) of Article 8 and, where they comply with the criteria under this Regulation, shall be approved by the relevant authority.”.

(10) In the heading to Title IX, omit “COMMISSION POWERS,”.

(11) Omit Articles 83 to 85.

(12) In Article 86—

(a) for “Member States”, in each place it occurs, substitute “The relevant authority”;

(b) in paragraph 1 omit “and the Commission”;

(c) in paragraph 3, for “applicable national and Union law” substitute “law as it applies in the constituent nation”;

(d) in paragraph 4, for “national and Union” substitute “public”.

(13) After Article 90 omit the third paragraph.