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Article 26 Limitation periods for the collection of financial penalties

United Kingdom

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1.

The right to start a recovery procedure shall expire one year after the decision pursuant to Article 16 or Article 19 has become final.

2.

The limitation period for the recovery of financial penalties shall be interrupted by any action of the Commission or of a Member State, acting at the request of the Commission, designed to enforce payment of the penalty.

3.

Each interruption shall start time running afresh.

4.

The limitation period for the recovery of financial penalties shall be suspended for so long as:

(a)

time to pay is allowed;

(b)

enforcement of payment is suspended pursuant to a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

Notes on the whole EU Regulation

Textual amendments

F1

Regulation revoked in part (31.12.2020) by The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/775), reg. 1, Sch. 9 para. 1(n) (subject to transitional provisions in S.I. 2012/1916, Sch. 33A); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)