Regulation 31 Article 34 (Aid for the prevention and restoration of damage to forests from forest fire, natural disasters, adverse climatic events which can be assimilated to a natural disaster, other adverse climactic events, plant pests and catastrophic events)

In Article 34—

(a)

in paragraph 1, for “compatible with the internal market within the meaning of” substitute “deemed to be approved under”;

(b)

in paragraph 2(a), for “adopted by the Commission” substitute “and subordinate legislation adopted”;

(c)

in paragraph 2(a)(i), for “aid co-financed by the EAFRD” substitute “support for rural development”;

(d)

in paragraph 2(a)(ii), omit “national”;

(e)

omit paragraph 3;

(f)

in paragraph 4, for “Member State concerned” substitute “competent authority”;

(g)

in paragraph 8—

(i)

in the words before point (a), for “competent authorities of the Member State concerned” substitute “competent authority”;

(ii)

in point (b)—

(aa)

omit “in” in the first place it occurs;

(bb)

after “in accordance with” insert “the retained EU law^f1 which transposed”;

(h)

in paragraph 9, for “the rural development programme of the Member State concerned” substitute “a rural development programme”;

(i)

in paragraph 10—

(i)

for “Member State” substitute “competent authority”;

(ii)

for “Member States” substitute “competent authority”;

(j)

in paragraph 12, omit “national or Union”.

Annotations

f1: See, in particular, Plant Health (England) Order 2015/610; Plant Health (Scotland) Order 2005/613; Plant Health (Wales) Order 2018/1064; Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 2018/184.