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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-228/article-24",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/228",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 March 2013 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-228",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Plant health programmes",
  "text": "1. The Member States shall submit programmes to the Commission for the control of organisms harmful to plants or plant products in the outermost regions. The programmes shall specify in particular the objectives to be achieved, the measures to be carried out, their duration and their cost.\nThe Commission shall evaluate the programmes submitted. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to approve or not approve those programmes. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 34(2).\n2. The Union shall contribute to the financing of the programmes provided for in paragraph 1 on the basis of a technical analysis of the regional situations.\nSuch contribution may cover up to 75 % of eligible expenditure. Payment shall be made on the basis of documentation provided by Member States. If necessary, checks may be organised by the Commission and conducted on its behalf by the experts referred to in Article 21 of Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community.\nUnion financing of the programmes for the control of pests in the outermost regions of the Union shall be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council .\n3. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts in respect of each region and programme, on the basis of the criteria fixed in paragraph 2 and the programme presented in accordance with paragraph 1, establishing:\n(a) the financial participation of the Union, as well as the amount of the aid;\n(b) the measures eligible for Union financing.\nThose implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 34(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament of the Council of 26 October 2016 on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/EC."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the food chain, animal health and animal welfare, and relating to plant health and plant reproductive material, amending Council Directives 98/56/EC, 2000/29/EC and 2008/90/EC, Regulations (EC) No 178/2002, (EC) No 882/2004 and (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Decisions 66/399/EEC, 76/894/EEC and 2009/470/EC ( OJ L 189, 27.6.2014, p. 1 )."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/228/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:47.841100+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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