{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1595/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1595/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/1595",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004 of 8 September 2004 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production, processing and marketing of fisheries products",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1595",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Transparency and monitoring",
  "text": "1. At the latest 10 working days before the entry into force of an aid scheme, or the granting of individual aid outside any scheme, exempted by this Regulation, Member States shall forward to the Commission, with a view to its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, a summary of the information regarding such aid scheme or individual aid in computerised form and as laid down in Annex I. Within five working days from receiving that summary, the Commission shall send a notice of receipt with an identification number and publish the summary on the internet.\n2. Member States shall maintain detailed records regarding the aid schemes exempted by this Regulation, the individual aid granted under those schemes, and the individual aid exempted by this Regulation that is granted outside any existing aid scheme. Such records shall contain all information necessary to establish that the conditions for exemption, as laid down in this Regulation, are fulfilled, including information on the status of the company as an SME.\nMember States shall keep a record regarding an individual aid for 10 years from the date on which it was granted and, regarding an aid scheme, for 10 years from the date on which the last individual aid was granted under such scheme.\nOn written request, the Member State concerned shall provide the Commission, within a period of 20 working days or such longer period as may be fixed in the request, with all the information which the Commission considers necessary to assess whether the conditions of this Regulation have been complied with.\n3. Member States shall make sure that no aid exempted under this Regulation is granted if it results in an aid intensity or aid amount exceeding the ceilings laid down in this Regulation. For that purpose, Member States shall either obtain from the enterprise concerned full information about other similar aid received or operate a monitoring system which makes it possible to calculate the total amount of aid received by a beneficiary of aid exempted by this Regulation, including any aid paid at different levels of the Member State concerned, and any Community support the beneficiary may receive.\n4. Member States shall compile a report on the application of this Regulation in respect of each whole or part calendar year during which this Regulation applies, in computerised form and as laid down in Annex II. This report may be integrated into the annual report to be submitted by Member States pursuant to Article 21(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999, and shall be submitted by 30 March of the year following the calendar year covered by the report.\n5. As soon as an aid scheme enters into force, or an individual aid is granted outside an aid scheme exempted by this Regulation, Member States shall publish on the internet the full text of such aid scheme, or the criteria and conditions under which such individual aid is granted. The address of the websites shall be communicated to the Commission together with the summary of the information regarding the aid required pursuant to paragraph 1. It shall also be contained in the annual report submitted pursuant to paragraph 4.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1595/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:17.613146+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."
}