# Council Regulation (EC) No 2257/2004 of 20 December 2004 amending Regulations (EEC) No 3906/89, (EC) No 1267/1999, (EC) No 1268/1999 and (EC) No 2666/2000, to take into account of Croatia's candidate status, Article 4

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Regulation (EC) No 2666/2000 is hereby amended as follows:
1.. at the end of paragraph 1 of Article 1 the following sentence shall be added:
‘From 2005 Croatia shall be eligible as a recipient country only for projects and programmes with a regional dimension, such as outlined in Article 2(2). Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, Croatia shall remain eligible for projects and programmes under Decision 1999/311/EC.’;
2.. Article 7 shall be amended as follows:
(a) paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:
‘1. The Commission shall implement the Community assistance in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities.’
(b) the following paragraph shall be inserted:
‘2a. The Commission may, within the limits established in Article 54 of Regulation (EC) No 1605/2002, decide to entrust tasks of public authority, and in particular budget implementation tasks to the bodies listed in Article 54(2) of said Regulation. The bodies defined in Article 54(2)(c) of said Regulation may be entrusted with tasks of public authority if they are of recognised international standing, comply with internationally recognised systems of management and control, and are supervised by public authority.’.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/2257/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-2257/article-4
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