Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/871 of 26 March 2019 on the clearance of the accounts of the paying agencies of the United Kingdom concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) for financial year 2018 (notified under document C(2019) 2357)

• CELEX: Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/871
• Articles: 4

Article 1

The accounts of the paying agencies of the United Kingdom, ‘Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs’, ‘The Scottish Government Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate’, ‘Welsh Government’ and ‘Rural Payments Agency’ are hereby cleared as regards expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in respect of financial year 2018.

The amounts recoverable from, or payable to the United Kingdom pursuant to this Decision, including those resulting from the application of Article 54(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, are set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is without prejudice to future conformity clearance decisions that the Commission may take pursuant to Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 to exclude from Union financing expenditure not effected in accordance with Union rules.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS

FINANCIAL YEAR 2018

Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State

MS

2018 - Expenditure/Assigned Revenue for the Paying Agencies for which the accounts are

Total a + b

Reductions and suspensions for the whole financial year  ( 1 )

Amount to be charged according to Article 54(2) of Regulation (EU) 1306/2013

Total including reductions and suspensions

Payments made to the Member State for the financial year

Amount to be recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the Member State  ( 2 )

cleared

disjoined

= expenditure/assigned revenue declared in the annual declaration

= total of the expenditure/assigned revenue in the monthly declarations

a

b

c = a + b

d

e

f = c + d + e

g

h = f – g

UK

GBP

0,00

0,00

0,00

0,00

– 81 567,52

– 81 567,52

0,00

– 81 567,52

UK

EUR

3 134 431 581,76

0,00

3 134 431 581,76

– 7 568 165,96

0,00

3 126 863 415,80

3 131 942 681,20

– 5 079 265,40

MS

Expenditure  ( 3 )

Assigned revenue  ( 3 )

Article 54(2) (= e)

Total (= h)

05 07 01 06

6701

6702

i

j

k

l = i + j + k

UK

GBP

0,00

0,00

– 81 567,52

– 81 567,52

UK

EUR

0,00

– 5 079 265,40

0,00

– 5 079 265,40

NB:

Nomenclature 2019: 05 07 01 06, 6701, 6702

( 1 )   The reductions and suspensions are those taken into account in the payment system, to which are added in particular the corrections for the non-respect of payment deadlines established in August, September and October 2018 and other reductions in the context of Article 41 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.

( 2 )   For the calculation of the amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State the amount taken into account is, the total of the annual declaration for the expenditure cleared (col.a) or, the total of the monthly declarations for the expenditure disjoined (col.b). Applicable exchange rate: the second sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 11(1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 907/2014.

( 3 )   BL 05 07 01 06 shall be split between the negative corrections which become assigned revenue in BL 67 01 and the positive ones in favour of MS which shall now be included on the expenditure side 05 07 01 06 as per Article 43 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.