# 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, Article 3: Derogations from Implementing Regulation (EU) No 615/2014

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

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:
(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;
(b) the activities concerned did not take place in due time due to the obstacles arising from the COVID-19 pandemic;
(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;
(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.
Paragraph 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.
2. 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:
(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;
(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;
(c) the activity as amended shall take place after the acceptance by the competent authority.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/600/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-600/article-3
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