{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-595/article-15",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/595",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 of 30 March 2004 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 establishing a levy in the milk and milk products sector",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-595",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Time limit for payment",
  "text": "1. Before 1 October each year, purchasers and, in the case of direct sales, producers liable for the levy shall pay the competent authority the amount due in accordance with rules laid down by the Member State, purchasers being responsible for collecting the surplus levy on deliveries due by producers pursuant to Article 79 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, in accordance with Article 81(1) of that Regulation.\nWithout prejudice to the application of Articles 107 to 109 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Member States may decide that the payment of the amount due related to the 12-month period beginning on 1 April 2014 takes place in three yearly instalments without interest.\nThe first yearly payment, representing at least 1/3 of the total amount due, shall be made by 30 September 2015 . By 30 September 2016 at least 2/3 of the total amount due shall be paid. The total amount shall be settled by 30 September 2017 .\nMember States shall ensure that the producers are the beneficiaries of such an instalment scheme.\n2. Where the time limit for payment referred to in paragraph 1 is not complied with, the sums due shall bear interest annually at the three-month reference rates applicable on 1 October each year, as referred to in Annex II, plus one percentage point.\nThe interest shall be paid to the Member State.\n3. The Member States shall declare to the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) the amounts resulting from the application of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 together with the expenditure declared in respect of November each year.\nWhere pursuant to Article 26(3) of this Regulation, the Member States communicate an update of the questionnaire provided for in paragraph 1 of that Article, the resulting adjusted amounts shall be declared to the EAGF at the latest together with the expenditure declared in respect of the month before which the questionnaire shall be communicated.\n4. Where the set of documents referred to in Article 3(5) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 296/96 shows that the time limit referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article has not been met, the Commission shall reduce advances on entry in the accounts of agricultural expenditure in proportion to the amount due or an estimate thereof, in accordance with Article 3(2) of Regulation No 1788/2003.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/517 of 26 March 2015 amending Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 establishing a levy in the milk and milk products sector."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1468/2006 of 4 October 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1788/2003 establishing a levy in the milk and milk products sector."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 39, 17.2.1996, p. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/595/article/15",
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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."
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