(28)Article 119 is replaced by the following:‘Article 119Amendments of the CAP Strategic Plans1.Member States may amend their CAP Strategic Plans. They shall do so by submitting requests for strategic amendment pursuant to paragraph 2 or by notifying the amendment pursuant to paragraph 9.2.Requests for strategic amendments of their CAP Strategic Plans shall be submitted to the Commission. The following amendments of the CAP Strategic Plans are strategic amendments:
(a)amendments introducing new interventions or deleting interventions from the CAP Strategic Plans;
(b)amendments that lead to changes of milestones or targets under the result indicators which are marked with “PR” in Annex I;
(c)amendments related to Article 17(5), Article 88(7), Articles 92 to 98 or Article 103(1), (5) and (6);
(d)amendments of the target and financial plans in the CAP Strategic Plan referred to in Article 112, including amendments to the contribution from EAFRD to InvestEU referred to in Article 81, amendments to the EAFRD total contribution to each type of intervention for the entire period covered by the CAP Strategic Plan or amendments related to the EAFRD contribution rates referred to in Article 91.
Requests for strategic amendments shall be duly justified and shall, in particular, set out the expected impact of the changes to the CAP Strategic Plan on achieving the specific objectives set out in Article 6(1) and (2). They shall be accompanied by the amended CAP Strategic Plan including the updated annexes as appropriate.3.The Commission shall assess the consistency of strategic amendments with this Regulation and Regulation (EU) 2021/2116, as well as the delegated and implementing acts adopted pursuant to them, and the effective contribution of strategic amendments to achieving the specific objectives.4.The Commission shall approve the requested strategic amendment provided that the necessary information has been submitted by a Member State concerned and the strategic amendment is compatible with this Regulation and Regulation (EU) 2021/2116, as well as the delegated and implementing acts adopted pursuant to them.5.The Commission shall make observations within 30 working days from the submission of the request for strategic amendment. The Member States shall provide the Commission with all necessary additional information.6.The Commission shall approve a request for strategic amendment no later than three months after its submission by the Member State.7.A request for strategic amendment may be submitted twice per calendar year, subject to possible exceptions provided for in this Regulation or to be determined by the Commission in accordance with Article 122. In addition, three further requests for strategic amendment may be submitted during the duration of the CAP Strategic Plan period. This paragraph shall not apply to requests for amendments to submit the missing elements of the CAP Strategic Plan in accordance with Article 118(5).A request for strategic amendment related to Article 17(5), Article 88(7) or Article 103(5) or (6) shall not count for the limitation laid down in the first subparagraph of this paragraph.8.A strategic amendment related to Article 17(5), Article 88(7) or Article 103(1) in relation to the EAGF shall take effect from 1 January of the calendar year following the year of approval of the request for that strategic amendment by the Commission and following the corresponding amendment of the allocations in accordance with Article 87(2).A strategic amendment related to Article 103(1) or (6) in relation to the EAFRD shall take effect after the approval of the request for that strategic amendment by the Commission and following the corresponding amendment of the allocations in accordance with Article 89(4).A strategic amendment related to the EAGF, other than the amendments referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph, shall take effect from a date to be determined by the Member State but not earlier than from the date of submission to the Commission of the request for that amendment. Member States may set a different date or dates of effect for different elements of the strategic amendment. Where the strategic amendment could place the farmers concerned in a less favourable position than that which they enjoyed prior to that amendment, Member States shall take into account, when determining the date of effect of the amendment, the need of farmers and other beneficiaries to have sufficient time to take that amendment into account. The planned date of effect for strategic amendment related to the EAGF shall be indicated by the Member State in the request for strategic amendment and shall be subject to approval by the Commission in accordance with paragraph 10 of this Article.9.Member States may, at any time, make and apply amendments to their CAP Strategic Plans other than strategic amendments. They shall notify those other amendments to the Commission by the time they start applying them and add them to the amended CAP Strategic Plan submitted together with the next request for strategic amendment in accordance with paragraph 2.Where amendments are introduced in relation to GAEC standards 1 and 4, Member States shall ensure and provide a specific justification that such amendments do not put at risk environmental and climate objectives linked to the conservation of permanent grassland or the protection of watercourses from pollution, as appropriate.Where the Commission does not object to notified amendments within 30 working days from the date of submission of the notification, the amendments shall have legal effects from the date of submission of the notification. The Commission shall object to a notified amendment if it finds that the amendment is not compatible with this Regulation or Regulation (EU) 2021/2116, or the delegated and implementing acts adopted pursuant to them.The notified amendments to which Commission made objections shall not have legal effects and Member State shall delete them from the amended CAP Strategic Plan submitted pursuant to the first subparagraph of this paragraph. The expenditure resulting from those amendments shall not be eligible for a contribution from the EAFRD or the EAGF. The Member State may submit those amendments to the Commission for approval in a request for strategic amendment, referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article. The rules concerning approvals of strategic amendments referred to in paragraphs 2 to 8 and 10 and 11 of this Article shall apply mutatis mutandis to approval of amendments to which the Commission objected in accordance with the second subparagraph of this paragraph. Article 121 shall apply mutatis mutandis to Commission actions pursuant to this paragraph.10.Each strategic amendment shall be approved by the Commission by means of an implementing decision without applying the committee procedure referred to in Article 153.11.Without prejudice to Article 86, strategic amendments shall only have legal effects after their approval by the Commission.12.Corrections of clerical or obvious errors or of a purely editorial nature that do not affect the implementation of the policy and the intervention shall not be considered to be a request for amendment or notification under this Article. Member States shall inform the Commission of such corrections.’;