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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/128 CHAPTER VI — Transparency

Article 58–Article 62 · 5 articles

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Form and way of presentation

Article 58

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1.   The information referred to in Article 98 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 in connection to Article 49(3), first subparagraph, points (a), (b), (d), (f) to (l) , of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 shall be published in open, machine-readable formats, such as CSV or XLXS, and contain the information specified in Annex VIII to this Regulation, including the code of the operation, as described in Annex IX to this Regulation. 2.   Member States may decide not to publish the information referred to in Article 49(3), first subparagraph, points (f) and (g) of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060, in relation to the types of intervention in form of direct payments referred to in Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, the types of intervention for rural development referred to in Article 69, points (b) and (c) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 and the measures laid down in Regulations (EU) No 228/2013 and (EU) No 229/2013. 3.   The information shall be accessible through a web search tool allowing the user to search for beneficiaries by either name, group of beneficiaries, municipality, amounts received or operation, or by a combination thereof, and to extract all the corresponding information as a single set of data. 4.   The information shall be provided in the official language or languages of the Member State and/or in one of the three working languages of the Commission. 5.   The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be expressed in euro. A Member State that has not adopted the euro shall express the amounts in both euro and its national currency, using two separate tables in open, machine-readable formats. 6.   The exchange rate specified in Article 12 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/127 shall apply to the national currencies. 7.   The information referred to in Article 98(2) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 in connection to Article 49(3), first subparagraph, point (e), of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060, shall be published in a separate document, which shall include at least the information contained in Annex IX to this Regulation.

Publication of beneficiaries in case of small amounts

Article 59

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1.   Where the amount of aid received in one year by a beneficiary is equal to or less than EUR 1 250, that beneficiary shall be identified by a code. Member States shall decide on the form of that code. 2.   Where the information on beneficiaries referred to in paragraph 1 would, due to the limited number of beneficiaries residing or registered in a given municipality, allow for the identification of a natural person as a beneficiary, the Member State concerned shall publish as information, for the purposes of Article 49(3), first subparagraph, point (l), of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060, the next larger administrative entity of which the municipality in question is part of.

Date of publication

Article 60

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The information referred to in this Chapter shall be published by 31 May each year for the preceding financial year.

Information of the beneficiaries

Article 61

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The information to the beneficiaries referred to in Article 98 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 shall be provided by including it in the application forms for receiving support from the EAGF or the EAFRD, or otherwise at the time when the data are collected.

Cooperation between the Commission and Member States

Article 62

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1.   The Commission shall set up and maintain a Union website under its central internet address which includes links to the websites of Member States referred to in Article 98(4) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116. The Commission shall provide updated internet links according to the information sent by Member States. 2.   Member States shall provide the Commission with their websites’ internet addresses as soon as they have been set up as well as any subsequent changes thereof having an influence on the accessibility of their websites from the Union website. 3.   Member States shall nominate a body in charge of setting up and maintaining the website. They shall inform the Commission of the name and address details of that body.

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