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Division Schematic representation of the RS loan principleF1

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Annexes I-V omitted (W.) (26.3.2021 in so far as it relates to domestic support for rural development) by virtue of The Agricultural Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/400), regs. 1(2), 12(10)

Notes on Annex II

Textual amendments

F2

Words in Annex 2 omitted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Word in Annex 2 omitted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4

Word in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5

Words in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F6

Words in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(d)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7

Words in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(d)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F8

Word in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(e)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F9

Words in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(e)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F10

Words in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(f); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F11

Words in Annex 2 omitted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(g)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F12

Words in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(g)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F13

Words in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(g)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F14

Words in Annex 2 omitted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(g)(iv); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F15

Words in Annex 2 substituted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(h)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F16

Word in Annex 2 omitted for specified purposes (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, 7(9)(h)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid (OJ L 352, 24.12.2013, p. 1).

f2

Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (notified under document number C(2003) 1422) (OJ L 124, 20.5.2003, p. 36).

f3

Enterprise with less than 250 employees and having a turnover of less than EUR 50 million or total assets less than EUR 43 million; also not belonging to a group exceeding such thresholds. According to the Commission Recommendation, ‘an enterprise is considered to be any entity engaged in an economic activity, irrespective of its legal form’.

f4

The following economic sectors are together referred to as the ‘restricted sectors’.

  1. (a)

    illegal economic activities: any production, trade or other activity, which is illegal under the laws or regulations of the home jurisdiction for such production, trade or activity.

  2. (b)

    Tobacco and distilled alcoholic beverages. The production of and trade in tobacco and distilled alcoholic beverages and related products.

  3. (c)

    Production of and trade in weapons and ammunition: the financing of the production of and trade in weapons and ammunition of any kind. This restriction does not apply to the extent such activities are part of or accessory to explicit European Union policies.

  4. (d)

    Casinos. Casinos and equivalent enterprises.

  5. (e)

    IT sector restrictions. Research, development or technical applications relating to electronic data programs or solutions, which (i) aim specifically at: (a) supporting any activity included in the Restricted Sectors referred to a to d above; (b) internet gambling and online casinos; or (c) pornography, or which (ii) are intended to enable to illegally (a) enter into electronic data networks; or (b) download electronic data.

  6. (f)

    Life science sector restrictions. When providing support to the financing of the research, development or technical applications relating to: (i) human cloning for research or therapeutic purposes; or (ii) Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).