Article 24 Responsibilities of Member States

Member States shall fulfil the management, control and audit obligations and assume the resulting responsibilities, which are laid down in the rules on shared management set out in Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 and this Regulation.

Member States shall ensure that their management and control systems for national programmes are set up in accordance with this Regulation and that those systems function effectively.

Member States shall allocate adequate resources for each competent authority to carry out their functions throughout the programming period.

Member States shall set up transparent rules and procedures for the selection and implementation of projects in accordance with this Regulation and the Specific Regulations.

All official exchanges of information between the Member State and the Commission shall be carried out using an electronic data exchange system. The Commission shall establish, by way of implementing acts, the terms and conditions with which that electronic data exchange system is to comply. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 59(3).