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Article 62 Suspension of payments

United Kingdom

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1.

The Commission may suspend all or part of the payments in any of the following circumstances:

(a)

there is a serious deficiency in the effective functioning of the management and control systems of the programme which has put the Union contribution at risk and for which corrective measures have not been taken;

(b)

there is a serious breach by participating countries of their obligations under Article 31;

(c)

expenditure is linked to an irregularity which has not been corrected having serious financial consequences;

(d)

there is a serious deficiency in the quality and reliability of the evaluation and monitoring system;

(e)

there is evidence resulting from monitoring, evaluation or audit that the programme does not deliver in accordance with the time-frames indicated in Article 4 and as reported in accordance with Article 77.

2.

The Commission may decide to suspend all or part of prefinancing payments after having given the Managing Authority the opportunity to present its observations.

3.

The Commission shall end suspension of all or part of payments where the Managing Authority has taken the necessary measures to enable the suspension to be lifted.