{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303/article-71", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303/article-71.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/71", "kind": "article", "number": "71", "heading": "Durability of operations", "text": "1. An operation comprising investment in infrastructure or productive investment shall repay the contribution from support for rural development if within five years of the final payment to the beneficiary ... it is subject to any of the following:\n(a) a cessation or relocation of a productive activity outside the programme area;\n(b) a change in ownership of an item of infrastructure which gives to a firm or a public body an undue advantage;\n(c) a substantial change affecting its nature, objectives or implementation conditions which would result in undermining its original objectives.\nSums unduly paid in respect of the operation shall be recovered by the relevant authority in proportion to the period for which the requirements have not been fulfilled.\nThe relevant authority may reduce the time limit set out in the first subparagraph to three years in cases concerning the maintenance of investments or jobs created by SMEs.\n2. An operation comprising investment in infrastructure or productive investment shall repay the contribution from support for rural development if within 10 years of the final payment to the beneficiary the productive activity is subject to relocation outside the United Kingdom and its territorial sea, except where the beneficiary is an SME. ...\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4. Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall not apply to contributions to or by financial instruments or for lease purchase under point (b) of Article 45(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 nor to any operation which undergoes cessation of a productive activity due to a non-fraudulent bankruptcy.\n5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .", "extent": "E+S+N.I.", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "Words in Art. 71 substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 11(14)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1542, regs. 1(2), 13(9)(j)(i)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F2", "text": "Words in Art. 71(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The State Aid (Revocations and Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1470), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(8)(a) (with Sch. 3)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F3", "text": "Words in Art. 71(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 11(14)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F4", "text": "Words in Art. 71(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 11(14)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F5", "text": "Words in Art. 71(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 11(14)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F6", "text": "Words in Art. 71(2) omitted (31.12.2020 immediately after IP completion day) by virtue of The State Aid (Revocations and Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1470), reg. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 7(8)(b) (with Sch. 3)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F7", "text": "Art. 71(3) omitted (31.12.2020 immediately after IP completion day) by virtue of The State Aid (Revocations and Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1470), reg. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 7(8)(c) (with Sch. 3)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F8", "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012." }, { "type": "F", "label": "F9", "text": "Art. 71(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 11(14)(e); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)" }, { "type": "E", "label": "E1", "text": "This version of this provision applies to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland only; a separate version has been created for Wales" } ], "outstanding_effects": [], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1303/article/71", "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." }