Article 65
1. The accounting officer shall act on recovery orders for amounts receivable duly established by the authorising officer responsible. He shall exercise due diligence to ensure that the EDF receives its revenue and shall ensure that its rights are safeguarded. 2. The accounting officer shall recover amounts by offsetting them against equivalent claims that the EDF or the Community have on any debtor who himself has a claim on the EDF or the Community that is certain, of a fixed amount and due. 3. As regards the direct labour and indirect decentralised operations referred to in Title VI, where claims from the EDF on the National Authorising Officer are not recovered within the prescribed time-limits, the authorising officer responsible shall take all the necessary measures to obtain actual repayment of the sums due, including, where appropriate, suspension of the use of that type of arrangement for that State or OCTs. 4. Where the authorising officer by delegation is planning to waive or partially waive recovery of an established amount receivable, he/she shall ensure that the waiver is in order and complies with the principles of sound financial management and proportionality. The waiver decision shall be substantiated. The authorising officer may delegate the decision only in accordance with Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2342/2002. 5. The authorising officer may cancel or adjust an established amount receivable. 6. Entitlements of the EDF in respect of third parties and entitlements of third parties in respect of the EDF shall be subject to a limitation period of five years. 7. Articles 82 to 85 and 87 to 89 of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2342/2002 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the implementation of paragraphs 1 to 6.