Article 32 Amendments to the programme
United Kingdom
Amendments made to the support programme referred to in Chapter II of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013 shall be submitted to the Commission once per calendar year, except in cases of force majeure or exceptional circumstances. They shall be sent to the Commission no later than 31 July of the year prior to their application. The amendments shall be duly substantiated, in particular by giving the following information:
the reasons for any implementation problems justifying the amendment of the programme;
the expected effects of the amendment;
the implications for financing and eligibility conditions.
The Commission shall inform Greece if it considers that the amendments do not comply with Union legislation, in particular with Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013, without prejudice to the Articles 51 and 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.
The amendments shall apply from 1 January of the year following that in which they were notified. In case an earlier application is deemed necessary, such amendments may apply earlier, unless the Commission objects.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the Commission shall evaluate separately the amendments proposed by Greece consisting in the introduction into the general programme of new groups of products to be supported under the specific supply arrangements or of new measures to assist the local agricultural production. The Commission shall decide on their approval within five months of their submission at the latest in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 22(2) of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013.
The amendments thus approved shall apply from 1 January of the year following that in which the proposal for an amendment was made or as from the date explicitly indicated in the approval decision.
Greece may make the following amendments without recourse to the procedure set out in paragraph 1, provided that the amendments are notified to the Commission:
in the case of forecast supply balances, changes in the individual level of aid up to 20 % or changes in the quantities of the products concerned covered by the supply balance and, consequently, the global amount of aid allocated to support each line of products;
as regards all measures, adjustments up to 20 % of the financial allocation for each individual measure, without prejudice of the financial ceilings provided for by Article 18 of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013, on condition that such adjustments are notified not later than 31 May of the year following the calendar year to which the amended financial allocation refers;
changes following amendments to codes and descriptions laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87f1 used to identify the products benefiting from aid, as long as those amendments do not entail a change of the products themselves.
The amendments referred to in paragraph 3 shall not apply before the date on which they are received by the Commission. They shall be duly explained and justified and may be implemented only once per year except in the following cases:
force majeure or exceptional circumstances;
amendment of the quantities of products covered by the supply arrangements,
changes following amendments to codes and descriptions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.
For the purposes of this Article the following definitions shall apply:
‘ measure ’ means the grouping of actions necessary to achieve one or more objectives for the programme constituting a line for which a financial allocation is defined in the financing table referred to in Article 5(a) of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013;
‘group of products’ means all products sharing the first two digits of the CN code as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.
The notifications referred to in this Article shall be made in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1183 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1185.
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Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff (OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1).