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Article 1

United Kingdom

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Implementing Regulation (EU) No 926/2011 is amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    Article 6 is replaced by the following:

    ‘Payment of the aid

    Article 6

    The balance of Union financial aid for work programmes shall be paid to laboratories following their submission of the financial and technical reports referred to in Article 11(1) and the approval of those reports by the Commission.’;

  2. (2)

    in Chapter II, the title is replaced by the following:

    ‘CHAPTER II

    ACTIVITIES OF THE LABORATORIES ’;

  3. (3)

    Article 9 is amended as follows:

    1. (a)

      the title is replaced by the following:

      ‘Definitions’;

      Article 9
    2. (b)

      the following paragraph is added:

      ‘A workshop is defined as an annual date for information and coordination to which all National Reference Laboratories are invited by the laboratories.’;

  4. (4)

    Articles 10 and 11 are replaced by the following:

    ‘Eligibility

    Article 10
    1.

    Expenditure relating to the following items shall be eligible under the laboratories’ work programme:

    (a)

    staff dedicated to the activities of the laboratories;

    (b)

    subcontracting;

    (c)

    capital equipment;

    (d)

    consumables;

    (e)

    the shipment of samples for comparative tests;

    (f)

    missions;

    (g)

    workshops to which at least one participant per Member State has been invited;

    (h)

    training activities;

    (i)

    meetings;

    (j)

    overheads.

    2.

    The expenditure referred to in paragraph 1 shall be eligible within the limits set out in the annual financing decision and in accordance with the eligibility rules set out in Annexes II and IV.

    3.

    Laboratories shall submit a written request to the Commission for its prior approval to increase the budget of one of the items referred to in Paragraph 1 by more than 10 % without exceeding the total eligible costs stipulated in the annual financing decision.

    Submission of reports on the laboratories’ work programme

    Article 11
    1.

    Laboratories shall submit the following reports to the Commission by 31 March of calendar year “n + 2”:

    (a)

    a paper copy and an electronic version of their financial report concerning the implementation of the work programme for the previous calendar year completed in accordance with Annexes III(a) and III(b);

    (b)

    a technical report of their activities, certified by the laboratory’s technical director.

    2.

    Union financial aid may be reduced by the Commission if the work programme is not completely executed or poorly executed by 31 December of the calendar year for which it was approved.’;

  5. (5)

    the second paragraph of Article 12 is deleted;

  6. (6)

    Article 13 is deleted;

  7. (7)

    Chapter III is deleted;

  8. (8)

    the Annexes to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 926/2011 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.