{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1994-1905/article-11",
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  "legislation": "eur/1994/1905",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1905/94 of 27 July 1994 on detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 399/94 concerning specific measures for dried grapes",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1994-1905",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The applicant may submit a single application for an advance as from the date on which the contract takes effect.\nThe advance may cover a maximum of 30 % of the amount of Community financing.\nAdvances shall be paid subject to provision in favour of the competent body of a security equal to 110 % of the advance, lodged in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2220/85.\n2. Payments shall be made on the basis of quarterly invoices submitted together with the relevant supporting documents and an interim report on the performance of the contract up to 70 % of the total Community funding. The first invoices shall be submitted three months after the date on which the contract takes effect.\n3. Applications for the balance shall be submitted to the competent body not later than the end of the fourth month following completion of the measures provided for in the contract. They shall be accompanied by:\nthe relevant supporting documents,\na statement summarizing the measures carried out,\na report assessing the results achieved to date and the use which may be made thereof.\nExcept in cases of force majeure, failure to lodge applications for the balance accompanied by the documentation by the final date shall result in a reduction of 3 % of the balance per month of delay.\n4. The balance shall be paid subject to verification of the documents referred to in paragraph 3.\nIn the event of failure to comply with the primary requirement referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 10 (4), no payment shall be made except in cases of force majeure.\nFailure to comply with the other requirements shall result in the balance being reducec in proportion to the extent of the irregularity recorded.\n5. The security referred to in paragraph 1 shall be released at the moment when the balance has been paid pursuant to paragraph 4.\nHowever:\n(a) if, pursuant to the third subparagraph of paragraph 4, the balance is reduced and the amount of the advance and of the payments referred to in paragraph 2 exceeds the final amount of the part-financing, the proportion of the security corresponding to the amount overpaid shall be forfeit;\n(b) failure to submit an application for the balance by the final date shall result in the security being forfeit in proportion to the reduct on in the balance provided for in the second subparagraph of paragraph 3.\n6. The competent body shall make the payments provided for in this Article within 60 days of receipt of applications for payment of the balance. However, it may defer the payments where further checks are required.\n7. The competent body shall forward the assessment reports referred to in paragraph 3 to the Commission on the 30th day following receipt of the documents referred to in that paragraph, at the latest.\n8. For the amounts fixed within the framework of the measures referred to in Articles 3, 4 and 5, the operative event for the exchange rate shall be that referred to in Article 2(6) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 of 20 December 2006 laying down detailed rules for the application of the agrimonetary system for the euro in agriculture and amending certain regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 365, 21.12.2006, p. 52 ."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1994/1905/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:00:05.469127+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."
}