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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1653/article-29",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/1653",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1653/2004 of 21 September 2004 on a standard financial regulation for the executive agencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes",
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  "path": "article/29",
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  "number": "29",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The authorising officer shall be responsible for implementing revenue and expenditure in accordance with the principles of sound financial management and for ensuring that the requirements of legality and regularity are complied with. He shall conserve the supporting documents relating to operations carried out for a period of five years from the date of the decision granting discharge in respect of implementation of the budget. Personal data contained in supporting documents shall be deleted where possible when those data are not necessary for budgetary discharge, control and audit purposes. In any event, as concerns the conservation of traffic data, Article 37(2) of Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 shall apply.\n2. The authorising officer shall put in place, in compliance with the minimum standards adopted by the Commission for its own departments and having due regard to the specific risks associated with his management environment and the nature of the action financed, the organisational structure and the internal management and control procedures suited to the performance of his duties, including where appropriate ex post verifications.\nDepending on the nature and scope of the duties, the authorising officer may establish within his departments an expertise and advice function designed to help him control the risks involved in his activities.\nBefore an operation is authorised, the operational and financial aspects shall be verified by members of staff other than the one who initiated the operation.\nFor the purpose of ex ante verification, a series of similar individual transactions relating to routine expenditure on salaries, pensions, reimbursement of mission expenses and medical expenses may be considered by the authorising officer responsible to constitute a single operation. In this case the authorising officer responsible shall, depending on his risk assessment, carry out appropriate ex post verification.\nInitiation and the ex ante and ex post verification of an operation shall be separate functions.\n3. In accordance with Article 9(7) of Regulation (EC) No 58/2003, the authorising officer shall report, by 15 March each year, to the management board on the performance of his duties in the form of an annual activity report together with financial and management information confirming that the information contained in the report presents a true and fair view except as otherwise specified in any reservations related to defined areas of revenue and expenditure.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 651/2008 of 9 July 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1653/2004 on a standard financial regulation for the executive agencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1653/article/29",
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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."
}