{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-401/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-401/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2006/401",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 20 January 2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Decision 2004/904/EC as regards Member States management and control systems, and rules for the administrative and financial management of projects co-financed by the European Refugee Fund (notified under document number C(2006) 51/3) (Only the Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovakian, Slovenian and Spanish texts are authentic) (2006/401/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-401",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Designation of authorities",
  "text": "1. The Member State shall designate the following:\na Responsible Authority,\na Certifying Authority,\na Control Authority.\n2. The Member State shall lay down all the arrangements governing its relations with the said authorities. Without prejudice to the provisions of this Decision, the Member State lays down all the arrangements governing the relations between the said authorities, which shall act in full compliance with the institutional, legal and financial systems of the Member State concerned.\n3. Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 3, point (2), some or all of the management, certification and control functions may be implemented within the same body.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/401/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:34.613075+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}