Conditions for determining fault or negligence on the part of the Member States
Article 2
The following criteria are indicative of fault or negligence on the part of the Member State: (a) the Member State did not submit any description of the administrative and legal measures, with dates, taken by the Member State to recover the relevant amount (or to reduce or cancel the level of support or withdraw the document in accordance with Article 125(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, where such a withdrawal is subject to a separate procedure); (b) the Member State did not provide any copy of the first and any subsequent recovery order (and of any copy of the letter reducing or cancelling the level of support or withdrawing the document in accordance with Article 125(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, where such withdrawal is subject to a separate procedure); (c) the Member State did not provide the date of the last payment of the public contribution to the beneficiary of the given operation and a copy of proof of this payment; (d) the Member State, after detection of the irregularity, made one or more undue payments to the beneficiary in relation to the part of the operation that was affected by the irregularity; (e) the Member State did not send the letter reducing the level of support or withdrawing the document in accordance with Article 125(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, where such withdrawal is subject to a separate procedure, or take any equivalent decision within 12 months of the detection of the irregularity; (f) the Member State did not initiate the recovery procedure within 12 months of the grant being definitively reduced or cancelled (either after an administrative or judicial procedure or by agreement of the beneficiary); (g) the Member State did not exhaust all recovery possibilities available through the national institutional and legal framework; (h) the Member State did not provide documents related to insolvency and bankruptcy procedures, when applicable; (i) the Member State did not reply to the Commission's request for further information in accordance with Article 3.