Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/209

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/2116 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 2021 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013^note, and in particular Article 104 thereof,Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/2008^note, and in particular Articles 51 and 52 thereof, in conjunction with Articles 131 and 138 of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community,After consulting the Committee on the Agricultural Funds,Whereas:

(1)By Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2866^note, the amount of EUR 3696542,04 under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) has been excluded from Union financing as financial correction resulting from the audit CEB/2023/049/GB.

(2)By Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2851^note, the accounts of the Paying Agency ‘Rural Payments Agency’ in respect of the last execution year and relating to the 2014-2020 programming period were cleared. Those accounts included an adjustment related to the financial correction for the amount of EUR 3696542,04, resulting from the audit CEB/2023/049/GB.

(3)Implementing Decisions (EU) 2024/2866 and (EU) 2024/2851 have been executed at the final balance payment of 2024, resulting in the deduction of EUR 3696542,04 from the final payment twice.

(4)In order to compensate for the effect of the double deduction, it is necessary to reimburse the amount of EUR 3696542,04 to the United Kingdom.

(5)Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1038^note cleared the accounts of the United Kingdom’s paying agencies for expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) for financial year 2022. That Implementing Decision cleared the accounts of the ‘Rural Payments Agency’ and included a negative amount of EUR 6667,13 for measure M19 (Support for LEADER local development). However, this amount was inadvertently excluded from the calculation of the final eligible amount for the measure.

(6)Consequently, Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2851, which cleared the accounts of the United Kingdom’s paying agencies for EAFRD expenditure during the final execution year of the 2014–2020 programming period (16 October 2022–31 December 2023), and established the final balance for rural development programmes, underpaid the final balance for the 2014UK06RDRP001 rural development programme by EUR 6667,13. To rectify this underpayment, it is necessary to reimburse EUR 6667,13 to the United Kingdom.

(7)This Decision is without prejudice to any financial conclusions that the Commission may draw from the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union in cases pending on 9 December 2024,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Country	Measure	FY	Reason	Type	Correction %	Currency	Gross Amount	Deductions	Net Decided
GB	Rural Development EAFRD measures subject to IACS	2022	Reimbursement : EAFRD IACS: known errors identified by CB (substantive testing)	ONE OFF		EUR	7178,20	0,00	7178,20
	Rural Development EAFRD measures subject to IACS	2022	Reimbursement : EAFRD IACS - most probable financial risk above materiality	ONE OFF		EUR	2068375,83	0,00	2068375,83
	Rural Development EAFRD Knowledge and innovation	2022	Reimbursement : EAFRD NIACS: known error identified by CB (compliance testing)	ONE OFF		EUR	805627,84	0,00	805627,84
	Clearance of Accounts - Financial Clearance	2022	Reimbursement : EAFRD NIACS: most probable financial risk	ONE OFF		EUR	768046,80	0,00	768046,80
	Rural Development EAFRD measures subject to IACS	2022	Reimbursement : Known errors identified by CB (compliance testing)	ONE OFF		EUR	47313,37	0,00	47313,37
					Total GB:	EUR	3696542,04	0,00	3696542,04

Currency	Gross Amount	Deductions	Net Decided
EUR	3696542,04	0,00	3696542,04

EUR

6667,13

0,00

6667,13

Additional reimbursement as referred to in recitals (5) and (6) of this Decision:

Financial Corrections	Total Net Decided
TOTAL:		0,00

Reimbursements	Total Net Decided
EAFRD	3696542,04
Additional reimbursement as referred to in recitals (5) and (6) of this Decision:	6667,13
TOTAL:	3703209,17

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