COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1796/95 of 25 July 1995 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of assistance granted by the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) for schemes defined by Regulation (EC) No 3699/93
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3699/93 of 21 December 1993 laying down the criteria and arrangements regarding Community structural assistance in the fisheries and aquaculture sector and the processing and marketing of its products (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1624/95 (2), and in particular Article 18 (3) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2080/93 of 20 July 1993 laying down provisions for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as regards the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (3), and in particular Article 9 (1) thereof, having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4028/86 of 18 December 1986 on Community measures to improve and adapt structures in the fisheries and aquaculture sector (4), and in particular Articles 44 to 46 thereof and Council Regulation (EEC) No 4042/89 of 19 December 1989 on the improvement of the conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed (5), and in particular Article 15 thereof, in as much as these Articles are still applicable to certain grants,
Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2080/93 lays down that measures are to be financed within the general programming framework of the Structural Funds;
Whereas the programmes must be executed in accordance with Council Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 19 December 1988 laying down provisions for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as regards coordination of the activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the European Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3193/94 (7), and Title VI in particular;
Whereas, with the aim of standardizing payment applications, a harmonized system of declarations of expenditure should be established;
Whereas applications for the payment of balances must include certain information to facilitate verification that the expenditure complies with the provisions of the relevant programmes and Regulation (EC) No 3699/93;
Whereas, although they have been repealed, the provisions of Regulations (EEC) No 4028/86 and (EEC) No 4042/89 remain applicable to applications for aid submitted before 1st January 1994 and approved by the Commission before 1 November 1994; whereas these requests have been included in the Commission Decisions approving the Community programmes for interventions in the sector based on Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EC) No 3699/93; whereas the information required concerning projects based on Regulatons (EEC) No 4028/86 and (EEC) No 4042/89 must therefore be included in half-yearly statements and annual reports as stipulated by this Regulation;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Management Committee for Fisheries Structures,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Half-yearly statements
Half-yearly statements of eligble expenses incurred by final beneficiaries, as well as payments made to final beneficiaries, must be presented in accordance with the declaration in Annex I.
Article 2
Annual implementation reports
Annual implementation reports which form an integral part of the monitoring and assessment arrangements referred to in Title VII of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 must be presented in accordance with the table contained in Annex II, each year before 1 April.
Article 3
Payment applications
1. Payment applications must be presented to the Commission in accordance with the declaration contained in Annex I.
2. Payment of the balance of the FIFG contribution for annual instalments under Regulation (EC) No 3699/93 shall moreover be conditional on the presentation of the annual implementation report referred to in Article 2 of this Regulation.
Article 4
The rules referred to in Articles 1 to 3 shall also apply to applications for assistance which have been the subject of Commission decisions pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2080/93.
Article 5
The information referred to in Articles 1 to 3 shall be transmitted on paper and also, the case of the report referred to in Article 2, in electronic form.
Article 6
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 25 July 1995.