Regulation 17 Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013

In Article 76—

(a)

in paragraph 1—

(i)

for “protects the financial interests of the Union” substitute “ensures proper management of public money”;

(ii)

for the words from “Commission” to “Article 115” substitute “appropriate authority may make regulations”;

(iii)

in point (b), omit “by the Member States”;

(b)

in paragraph 2—

(i)

for the words from “Commission” to “Article 115” substitute “appropriate authority may make regulations”;

(ii)

in point (c), for the words from “such” to “eligible area” substitute “such rules may allow, in relation to areas under permanent grassland, for scattered landscape features and trees, the total area of which does not exceed a specified percentage of the reference parcel, to be part of the eligible area automatically”.