{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-658/annex/article-30",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2004/658",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision 2004/658/CFSP of 13 September 2004 on the financial provisions applicable to the general budget of the European Defence Agency",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-658",
  "path": "annex/article/30",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Sums due shall be paid within no more than 45 calendar days from the date on which an admissible payment request is registered by the authorised department of the authorising officer responsible; the date of payment shall mean the date on which the Agency's account is debited.\nThe payment request is not admissible if at least one essential requirement is not met.\n2. The payment period referred to in paragraph 1 shall be 30 calendar days for payments relating to service or supply contracts, save where the contract provides otherwise.\n3. For contracts or agreements under which payment depends on approval of a report, time for the purposes of the payment periods referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not begin to run until the report in question has been approved, either explicitly with the beneficiary being informed, or implicitly because the time allowed by the contract for approval has expired without being suspended by means of a formal document sent to the beneficiary.\nThe time allowed for approval may not exceed:\n(a) 20 calendar days for straightforward contracts relating to the supply of goods and services;\n(b) 45 calendar days for other contracts and grant agreements;\n(c) 60 calendar days for contracts involving technical services which are particularly complex to evaluate.\n4. The authorising officer responsible may suspend the time limit for payment by informing creditors, at any time during the period referred to in paragraph 1, that the payment request cannot be met, either because the amount is not due or because the appropriate supporting documents have not been produced. If information comes to the notice of the authorising officer responsible which puts in doubt the eligibility of expenditure appearing in a payment request, the authorising officer may suspend the time limit for payment for the purpose of further verification, including an on-the-spot check, in order to ascertain, prior to payment, that the expenditure is indeed eligible. The authorising officer shall inform the beneficiary in question as soon as possible.\nTime for the purposes of the remainder of the payment period shall begin to run again from the date on which the properly formulated payment request is first registered.\n5. On expiry of the time limits laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2, the creditor may, within two months of receiving late payment, demand interest in accordance with the following provisions:\n(a) the interest rates shall be those referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 21(2);\n(b) the interest shall be payable for the period elapsing from the calendar day following expiry of the time-limit for payment up to the day of payment.\nThe first subparagraph shall not apply to Member States.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2004/658/annex/article/30",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}