Scope and use of terms
Article 1
1. This Regulation lays down provisions supplementing Section 4 of Chapter II of Title I of Part II of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 on the support programmes in the wine sector. 2. This Regulation shall not affect the application of: (a) specific provisions governing relations between Member States in combating fraud in the wine sector in so far as they are such as to facilitate the application of this Regulation; (b) rules relating to: (i) criminal proceedings or mutual assistance among Member States at judicial level in criminal matters; (ii) the administrative penalties procedure 3. For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘operation’ means the action or the group of actions that are included in a project or contract submitted by an applicant and selected by the national authorities under a given support programme, corresponding to any of the activities under the measures referred to in Article 43 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.