Article 20 Documents submitted by the certifying authorityX1
United Kingdom
Certified statements of expenditure and payment applications referred to in Article 61(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 shall be drawn up in the format in Annex X to this Regulation and transmitted to the Commission.
F1By 31 March 2010 and by 31 March of each year thereafter, the certifying authority shall send a statement to the Commission in the format set out in Annex XI, identifying for each priority axis of the operational programme:
the amounts withdrawn from statements of expenditure submitted during the preceding year following cancellation of all or part of the public contribution for an operation;
the amounts recovered which have been deducted from statements of expenditure submitted during the preceding year;
a statement of amounts to be recovered as at 31 December of the preceding year, classified by the year in which recovery orders were issued ;
a list of amounts for which it was established during the preceding year that they cannot be recovered or which are not expected to be recovered, classified by the year in which the recovery orders were issued.
For the purposes of points (a), (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph, aggregate amounts related to irregularities reported to the Commission under Article 28 shall be provided for each priority axis.
For the purposes of point (d) of the first subparagraph, any amount related to an irregularity reported to the Commission under Article 28 shall be identified by the reference number of that irregularity or by any other adequate method.
For each amount referred to in point (d) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 the certifying authority shall indicate whether it requests the Community share to be borne by the general budget of the European Union.
If, within one year from the date of the submission of the statement, the Commission does not request information for the purposes of Article 70(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006, inform the Member State in writing about its intention to open an enquiry in respect of that amount or request that the Member State continue the recovery procedure, the Community share shall be borne by the general budget of the European Union.
The time limit of one year shall not apply in cases of suspected or established fraud.
For the purposes of the statement provided for in paragraph 2, Member States which have not adopted the euro as their currency by the date when the statement is submitted shall convert amounts in national currency into euro using the exchange rate referred to in Article 81(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006. Where the amounts relate to expenditure registered in the accounts of the certifying authority during more than one month, the exchange rate in the month during which expenditure was last registered may be used.
In order to proceed to the partial closure of an operational programme, the certifying authority shall send to the Commission a statement of expenditure referred to in Article 88 of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 in the format set out in Annex XIV to this Regulation.
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