Regulation 9 Recovery of Payments

(1)

Where a farmer is liable to repay all or part of a specified payment in accordance with Article 73 of Commission Regulation 796/2004, the amount of the repayment, together with the interest on that amount calculated in accordance with regulation 8, shall be recoverable as a debt on demand to the relevant competent authority.

(2)

In any legal proceedings brought pursuant to paragraph (1), a certificate of the relevant competent authority which—

(a)

sets out the LIBOR applicable during a specified period; and

(b)

includes a statement that the Bank of England or the coordinating body notified the relevant competent authority of that rate for that period,

shall be evidence of the rate applicable during that period.

(3)

In this regulation “the coordinating body” means the coordinating body referred to in Article 4(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 on the financing of the common agricultural policy^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: O.J. No. L160, 26.6.99, p.103.