The Rural Development (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 809/2014

11.—(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 809/2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the integrated administration and control system, rural development measures and cross compliance(1), is amended insofar as it relates to rural development support measures as follows.

(2) In Article 14 (contents of the single application or payment claim), in paragraph 1, omit sub-paragraph (f).

(3) In Article 25 (announcement of on-the-spot checks)—

(a) omit “strictly”;

(b) omit “and shall not exceed 14 days”.

(4) Omit Article 32 (control rate for rural development measures).

(5) In Article 34 (selection of the control sample), omit paragraph 3.

(6) In Article 36 (reduction of the control rate), omit paragraphs 4 and 5.

(7) In Article 37 (elements of on-the-spot checks), omit paragraph 4.

(8) In Article 42 (on-the-spot checks), in paragraph 1, omit the second sub-paragraph.

(9) In Article 48 (administrative checks), omit paragraph 5.

(10) In Article 52 (ex-post checks)—

(a) omit paragraph 2;

(b) in paragraph 3, omit “Between 20 % and 25 % of the sample shall be selected randomly.”.

(11) In Article 68 (Minimum control rate) paragraph 1, after the third sub-paragraph, insert—

“For the purposes of checks in respect of claim year 2023”:

(a) the first subparagraph applies as if for “shall” there were substituted “may”; and

(b) the words “at least 1% of the total number of” were omitted.

(12) In Article 69 (selection of the control sample) paragraph 6, for “at the minimum rate of 1% of” substitute “from”.

(1)

EUR 2014/809, amended by S.I. 2019/765, 2020/1445; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.