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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1535/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2007/1535",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1535/2007 of 20 December 2007 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to de minimis aid in the sector of agricultural production",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1535",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Monitoring",
  "text": "1. Where a Member State intends to grant de minimis aid to an undertaking, it shall inform that undertaking in writing of the prospective amount of the aid (expressed as gross grant equivalent) and of its de minimis character, making express reference to this Regulation and citing its title and publication reference in the Official Journal of the European Union. Where de minimis aid is granted to several undertakings on the basis of a scheme and different amounts of aid are granted to those undertakings, the Member State concerned may choose to fulfil this obligation by informing the undertakings of a fixed sum corresponding to the maximum aid amount to be granted under the scheme. In such case, the fixed sum shall be used for determining whether the ceiling laid down in Article 3(2) is met. Prior to granting the aid, the Member State shall also obtain a declaration from the undertaking concerned, in written or electronic form, about any other de minimis aid received during the previous two fiscal years and the current fiscal year.\nThe Member State shall obtain a declaration from each beneficiary demonstrating that the amount of aid received by it does not exceed the ceiling laid down in Article 3(2). Where that ceiling is exceeded, the Member State concerned shall ensure that the aid measure leading to the ceiling being exceeded is notified to the Commission or recovered from the beneficiary.\n2. The Member State shall only grant de minimis aid after having checked that it will not raise the total amount of de minimis aid received during the period covering the fiscal year concerned and the two previous years to a level above the ceiling laid down in Article 3(2) and (3).\n3. Where a Member State has set up a central register of de minimis aid containing complete information on all de minimis aid falling within the scope of this Regulation granted by any authority within that Member State, the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall not apply once the register covers a period of at least three years.\n4. Where an aid is granted by a Member State on the basis of a guarantee scheme providing a guarantee which is financed from the EU budget under mandate through the European Investment Fund, the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 of this Article may cease to apply.\nIn such cases, the following monitoring system shall apply:\n(a) the European Investment Fund shall establish, on a yearly basis, on the basis of information that financial intermediaries must provide to the EIF, a list of beneficiaries of aid and of the gross grant equivalent received by each of them. The European Investment Fund shall send this information to the Member State concerned and to the Commission;\n(b) the Member State concerned shall send that information to the final beneficiaries of the aid within three months of receipt of such information;\n(c) the Member State concerned shall obtain a declaration from each beneficiary that the overall de minimis aid it has received does not exceed the de minimis ceiling. Where that ceiling is exceeded, the Member State concerned shall ensure that the aid measure leading to the ceiling being exceeded is notified to the Commission or recovered from the beneficiary.\n5. Member States shall record and compile all the information regarding the application of this Regulation. Such records shall contain all information necessary to demonstrate that the conditions of this Regulation have been complied with.\nThe information referred to in the first subparagraph shall be kept:\n(a) in the case of individual de minimis aid, for 10 years from the date on which the aid is granted;\n(b) in the case of de minimis aid schemes, for 10 years from the date on which the last individual aid was granted under the scheme in question.\n6. On a written request, the Member States shall provide the Commission, within a period of 20 working days, or such longer period as may be fixed in the request, with all the information that the Commission considers necessary for assessing whether the conditions of this Regulation have been met, in particular the total amount of de minimis aid granted to a given undertaking and to the agricultural sector of the Member State concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2007/1535/article/4",
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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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