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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-600/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eur/2020/600",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/600 of 30 April 2020 derogating from Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/892, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1150, Implementing Regulation (EU) No 615/2014, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1368 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/39 as regards certain measures to address the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-600",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Derogations from Implementing Regulation (EU) No 615/2014",
  "text": "1. By way of derogation from paragraphs 2 and 4 of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 615/2014, the competent authority may accept amendments to a work programme provided that:\n(a) the proposed changes aim at amending and rescheduling after 31 March 2020 activities of the second implementation year of the three-year work programme that started on 1 April 2018;\n(b) the activities concerned did not take place in due time due to the obstacles arising from the COVID-19 pandemic;\n(c) the beneficiary organisation applies by 30 June 2020 for the partial payment, as referred to in Article 5a of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 615/2014, of the aid corresponding to the activities of the second implementation year that took place before 1 April 2020;\n(d) the Union financing of the concerned activities takes place in the framework of the second implementation year, in accordance with Article 5 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 615/2014.\nParagraph 4 of Article 5 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 615/2014 shall not be applicable to work programmes amended pursuant to point (d) of the first subparagraph of this Article.\n2. By way of derogation from point (a) of paragraph 6 of Article 2 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 615/2014, the two-month time limit shall not be applicable to the notification of amendments to a work programme provided that:\n(a) the proposed changes are related to activities of the third implementation year of the three-year work programme that started on 1 April 2018;\n(b) the activity originally planned did not or cannot take place in full or in part due to the obstacles arising from the COVID-19 pandemic;\n(c) the activity as amended shall take place after the acceptance by the competent authority.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/600/article/3",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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