{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1303",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Preparation of programmes",
  "text": "Support for rural development must be implemented through programmes. Each programmes shall cover the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2020.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Title 3 Ch. 1 omitted (W.) in so far as it relates to domestic support for rural development (26.3.2021) by virtue of The Agricultural Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/400), regs. 1(2), 6(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 26 substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 7(1) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1542, regs. 1(2), 13(5)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1303/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:08.647663+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."
}