{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1353/article-29",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2016/1353",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2016/1353 of 4 August 2016 concerning the financial rules of the European Defence Agency and repealing Decision 2007/643/CFSP",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-1353",
  "path": "article/29",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Implementation of revenue",
  "text": "1. Implementation of revenue shall comprise drawing up estimates of amounts receivable, establishing entitlements to be recovered and recovering undue amounts. It shall also include the possibility of waiving established entitlements where appropriate.\n2. Amounts wrongly paid shall be recovered.\nIf actual recovery has not taken place by the due date stipulated in the debit note, the accounting officer shall inform the Authorising Officer and immediately launch the procedure for effecting recovery by any means offered at law, including where appropriate, by offsetting and, if this is not possible, by enforced recovery.\nWhere the Authorising Officer plans to waive or partially waive recovery of an established amount receivable, he or she shall ensure that the waiver is in order and is in accordance with the principles of sound financial management and proportionality. The waiver decision shall be substantiated. The waiver decision shall state that action has been taken to secure recovery and the points of law and fact on which it is based.\nThe accounting officer shall keep a list of amounts due to be recovered. The Agency entitlements shall be grouped in the list according to the date of issue of the recovery order. The accounting officer shall also indicate decisions to waive or partially waive recovery of established amounts. The list shall be added to the Agency's annual accounts.\n3. Any debt not repaid on the due date laid down in the debit note shall bear interest in accordance with Article 83 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1268/2012.\n4. Entitlements of the Agency in respect of third parties and entitlements of third parties in respect of the Agency shall be subject to a limitation period of five years.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1268/2012 of 29 October 2012 on the rules of application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (OJ L 362, 31.12.2012, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2016/1353/article/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:51.512600+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."
}