{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1628/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1628/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2006/1628",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1628/2006 of 24 October 2006 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to national regional investment aid (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1628",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Necessity for the aid",
  "text": "1. This Regulation shall only exempt aid awarded under regional investment aid schemes if, before the start of work on the project, the beneficiary has submitted an application to the national or regional authorities for aid and, in respect of applications submitted from 1 January 2007, the authority responsible for administering the scheme has confirmed in writing that, subject to the final outcome of a detailed verification, the project meets the conditions of eligibility laid down by the scheme. An express reference to both conditions must also be included in the aid scheme. If work begins before the conditions laid down in this Article are fulfilled, the whole project shall not be eligible for regional aid.\n2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to aid schemes where a tax exemption or reduction is granted automatically to eligible expenditure without any discretion on the part of the authorities.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/1628/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:53:22.722287+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."
}