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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-480/article-7",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/480",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 480/2014 of 3 March 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-480",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Criteria for the selection of bodies implementing financial instruments(Third subparagraph of Article 38(4) and Article 39a(7) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013)",
  "text": "1. When selecting a body to implement a financial instrument in accordance with point (a) of Article 38(4), subpoint (iii) of point (b) of Article 38(4), point (c) of Article 38(4) and Article 39a(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, the managing authority shall satisfy itself that this body fulfils the following minimum requirements:\n(a) entitlement to carry out relevant implementation tasks under Union and national law;\n(b) adequate economic and financial viability;\n(c) adequate capacity to implement the financial instrument, including organisational structure and governance framework providing the necessary assurance to the managing authority;\n(d) existence of an effective and efficient internal control system;\n(e) use of an accounting system providing accurate, complete and reliable information in a timely manner;\n(f) agreement to be audited by Member State audit bodies, the Commission and the European Court of Auditors.\n(f) agreement to be audited by audit bodies.\n2. When selecting a body referred to in paragraph 1, the managing authority shall take due account of the nature of the financial instrument to be implemented, the body's experience with the implementation of similar financial instruments, the expertise and experience of proposed team members, and the body's operational and financial capacity. The selection shall be transparent and justified on objective grounds and shall not give rise to a conflict of interest. At least the following selection criteria shall be used:\n(a) robustness and credibility of the methodology for identifying and appraising financial intermediaries or final recipients as applicable;\n(b) the level of management costs and fees for the implementation of the financial instrument and the methodology proposed for their calculation;\n(c) terms and conditions applied in relation to support provided to final recipients, including pricing;\n(d) the ability to raise resources for investments in final recipients additional to programme contributions;\n(e) the ability to demonstrate additional activity in comparison to present activity;\n(f) in cases where the body implementing the financial instrument allocates its own financial resources to the financial instrument or shares the risk, proposed measures to align interests and to mitigate possible conflicts of interest.\n3. Where a body that implements a fund of funds, including the EIB and an international financial institution in which a Member State is a shareholder, further entrusts implementation tasks to a financial intermediary, it shall ensure that the requirements and criteria referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 are met in respect of that financial intermediary.\n4. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, when the body implementing a financial instrument under Article 39a(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 is the EIB or an international financial institution in which a Member State is a shareholder, paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/886 of 12 February 2019 amending and correcting Delegated Regulation (EU) No 480/2014 as regards the provisions on financial instruments, simplified cost options, audit trail, scope and content of audits of operations and methodology for the selection of the sample of operations and Annex III."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(1)(a) omitted in so far as they apply to support for rural development and support under Regulation 508/2014 (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions Rules etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/783), regs. 1, 5(8)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 7(1)(f) substituted in so far as it applies to support for rural development and support under Regulation 508/2014 (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions Rules etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/783), regs. 1, 5(8)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 7(3) omitted in so far as it applies to domestic support for rural development (W.) (26.3.2021) by virtue of The Agricultural Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/400), regs. 1(2), 8(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(3) omitted in so far as they apply to support for rural development and support under Regulation 508/2014 (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions Rules etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/783), regs. 1, 5(8)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/886 of 12 February 2019 amending and correcting Delegated Regulation (EU) No 480/2014 as regards the provisions on financial instruments, simplified cost options, audit trail, scope and content of audits of operations and methodology for the selection of the sample of operations and Annex III."
    }
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  "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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