Administrative checks
Article 30
1. Administrative checks shall be carried out on all applications for support, payment claims or other declarations and requests of modification submitted by a beneficiary or a third party, and shall cover all elements that can be checked and are appropriate to be checked by means of administrative checks. Where relevant, administrative checks shall include cross-checks with, inter alia, data from the integrated administration and control system provided for in Chapter 2 of Title V of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013. The procedures shall require recording of the control work undertaken, the results of the verification and the measures taken in the event of discrepancies. 2. Administrative checks on applications for support shall ensure the compliance of the operation with applicable obligations established by Union or national law or by the support programme. The checks shall include verification of: (a) the eligibility of the beneficiary; (b) the eligibility criteria, commitments and other obligations of the operation for which an application for support is submitted; (c) the eligibility of the costs of the operation and compliance with the category of costs or calculation method to be used where support is paid on the basis of standard scales of unit costs or of supporting documents to be submitted by the beneficiary, as well as, where applicable, contributions in kind, personnel and administrative costs referred to in Articles 45, 46 and 47 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1149 respectively; (d) where support is paid on the basis of supporting documents to be submitted by the beneficiary, the reasonableness of the costs submitted, which shall be evaluated using at least one of the following evaluation systems: (i) reference costs; (ii) a comparison of different offers; (iii) an evaluation committee; (e) where applicable, the compliance with the priority criteria and the attribution of weighting for the purposes of the selection procedure referred to in Article 23 of this Regulation. 3. Administrative checks on payment claims shall be systematic and include, where appropriate for the claim in question, verification of: (a) the completed operation compared with the operation for which the application for support was submitted and granted; (b) the costs incurred and the payments made by the beneficiary. 4. Administrative checks shall include procedures to avoid irregular double financing with other Union or national schemes.