Delegated powers
Article 53
In order to ensure that Member States' wine support programmes meet their objectives and that there is an efficient and effective use of Union funds, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 227 establishing: (a) rules on the responsibility for expenditure between the date of receipt by the Commission of the support programmes and modifications to support programmes, and their date of applicability; (b) rules on the content of support programmes and the expenditure, administrative and personnel costs and operations that may be included in Member States' support programmes and the conditions for, and the possibility to make, payments through intermediaries in the case of support for harvest insurance provided for in Article 49; (c) rules on the requirement to lodge a security where an advance payment is made; (d) rules on the use of terms for the purposes of this Section; (e) rules on the fixing of a ceiling for expenditure on the replanting of vineyards for health or phytosanitary reasons in accordance with point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 46(3); (f) rules on the avoidance of double funding between: (i) the different operations of a Member State's wine support programme, and (ii) a Member State's wine support programme and its rural development or promotional programmes; (g) rules under which producers are to withdraw the by-products of winemaking, and on exceptions to that obligation in order to avoid additional administrative burden, and rules for the voluntary certification of distillers; (h) rules allowing Member States to establish conditions for the proper functioning of support measures in their programmes.