Fixing and granting of aid
1. For the purposes of Article 10(2) of Regulation (EU) No 228/2013, Member States shall determine within the context of the programme the amount of aid to be granted in order to compensate for remoteness, insularity and distant location, taking into account:
(a)
as regards specific additional transport costs, the intermediate reloading costs involved in supplying goods to the outermost regions concerned;
(b)
as regards the specific additional costs involved in local processing, the small size of the market, the need to guarantee security of supply and the specific quality requirements for goods in the outermost regions concerned.
Aid certificate and payment
1. Aid shall be granted on presentation of a certificate (hereinafter referred to as ‘aid certificate’), which has been fully utilised.
Presenting an aid certificate to the authorities responsible for making payments shall be tantamount to applying for the aid. Except in cases of force majeure or exceptional climatic conditions, certificates shall be presented within 30 days of the date on which they are charged. Where that time limit is overrun, the aid shall be reduced by 5 % per day of delay.
The aid shall be paid by the competent authorities not later than 90 days after the date on which the utilised certificate is lodged, except in one of the following cases:
(a)
force majeure or exceptional climatic conditions;
(b)
where an administrative enquiry has been opened concerning entitlement to the aid; in such case, payment shall take place only after entitlement has been recognised.
2. Aid certificates shall be drawn up on the basis of the specimen import licence set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 376/2008.
Article 7(5) and Articles 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26, 28, 32 and 35 to 40 of Regulation (EC) No 376/2008 shall apply mutatis mutandis, without prejudice to this Regulation.
3. One of the entries listed in Part E of Annex I shall be printed or stamped in the upper left-hand box of the certificate.
Boxes 7 and 8 of the certificate shall be struck out.
4. Box 20 of aid certificate applications and of aid certificates themselves shall contain one of the entries listed in Part F of Annex I and one of the entries listed in Part G of Annex I.
5. Box 12 of aid certificates shall show the last day of validity.
6. The amount of aid applicable shall be that in force on the day on which the application for the aid certificate was lodged.
7. The competent authorities shall issue aid certificates at the request of the parties concerned, subject to the limits of the forecast supply balances.
