# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/891 of 13 March 2017 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the fruit and vegetables and processed fruit and vegetables sectors and supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to penalties to be applied in those sectors and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, Article 16: Non-producer members

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Any natural or legal person who is not a producer may be accepted as a member of a producer organisation if and for so long as there is no conflict of interest between that person and the producer organisation.
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3. The natural or legal persons referred to in paragraph 1 shall not:
(a) be taken into account for the recognition criteria;
(b) benefit directly from the measures financed from public funds.
Restrictions on the right of a natural or legal person to vote on decisions relating to operational funds are set out in Annex VIII to this Regulation.
(4.) By way of derogation from paragraph 3(b), an existing non-UK member of an ex-transnational producer organisation may continue to benefit directly from measures financed from public funds, where:
(a) those measures are contained in an ongoing operational programme that was being implemented by that organisation before IP completion day; and
(b) that member was entitled to benefit from those measures immediately before IP completion day.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/891/article/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-891/article-16
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