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  "legislation": "eur/2014/532",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 532/2014 of 13 March 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 532/2014\nof 13 March 2014\nsupplementing Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived, and in particular Articles 32(8), 32(9), 34(7), 34(8) and 55(4) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nRegulation (EU) No 223/2014 allows the Commission to adopt delegated acts supplementing its non-essential elements with regard to the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD).\n(2)\nRegulation (EU) No 223/2014 requires the managing authority to establish a system to record and store, in computerised form, data on each operation necessary for monitoring, evaluation, financial management, verification and audit, including, with regard to social inclusion of the most deprived persons operational programmes (OP II), data on individual participants. It is therefore necessary to set out a list of data to be recorded and stored in that system.\n(3)\nCertain data is relevant for particular types of operations or for one of the types of operational programme only; the applicability of data requirements should therefore be specified. Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 set out specific requirements for the recording and storage of data on individual participants in operations supported by OP II, which need to be taken into account.\n(4)\nThe list of data should take into account the reporting requirements set out under Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 in order to ensure that the data necessary for financial management and monitoring, including data needed to prepare payment applications, accounts and implementation reports exists for every operation in a form in which it can be easily aggregated and reconciled. The list should take into account that certain basic data on operations in computerised form is necessary for effective financial management of operations and to fulfil the requirement to publish basic information on operations. Certain other data is necessary to effectively plan and carry out verifications and audit work.\n(5)\nThe list of data to be recorded and stored should not prejudge the technical characteristics or structure of the computerised systems set up by managing authorities or pre-determine the format of the data recoded and stored, unless these are specifically stated in this Regulation. Nor should it prejudge the means by which data is entered or generated within the system; in some cases, the data included in the list may require the entry of multiple values. Nevertheless, it is necessary to set out certain rules on the nature of this data, to ensure that the managing authority can fulfil its responsibility for monitoring, evaluation, financial management, verification and audit, including where this requires processing of data on individual participants.\n(6)\nIn order to ensure that expenditure under operational programmes can be checked and audited, it is necessary to set out the criteria with which an audit trail should comply to be considered adequate.\n(7)\nIt is necessary to provide, in relation to the audit work pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 223/2014, that the Commission and the Member States should prevent any unauthorised disclosure of or access to personal data, and to specify the purposes for which the Commission and the Member States can process such data.\n(8)\nThe audit authority is responsible for audits of operations. To ensure that the scope and effectiveness of such audits are adequate and that they are carried out to the same standards in all Member States, it is necessary to set out the conditions that they should meet.\n(9)\nIt is necessary to set out in detail the sampling basis for operations to be audited, which the audit authority should observe in establishing or approving the sampling method, including the determination of the sampling unit, certain technical criteria to be used for the sample and where necessary factors to be taken into account in taking additional samples.\n(10)\nThe audit authority should draw up an audit opinion covering the accounts referred to in Regulation (EU) No 223/2014. To ensure that the scope and the content of audits on accounts are adequate and that they are carried out to the same standards in all Member States, it is necessary to set out the conditions that they should meet.\n(11)\nTo ensure legal certainty and equal treatment of all Member States in making financial corrections, consistent with the principle of proportionality, it is necessary to set out the criteria for determining serious deficiencies in the effective functioning of management and control systems, define the main types of such deficiencies and set out the criteria for establishing the level of financial correction to be applied and criteria for applying extrapolated or flat rates financial corrections.\n(12)\nIn order to allow for the prompt application of the measures provided for in this Regulation, this Regulation should enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
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  "version": "current",
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      "text": "OJ L 72, 12.3.2014, p. 1."
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