Article 4, Paragraph 1. · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/174

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1.Where the Member State submits on the same day a request for a strategic amendment pursuant to Article 119(2) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 and a notification of other amendments pursuant to Article 119(9) of that Regulation or where the Member State submits a request for a strategic amendment after that Member State notified to the Commission other amendments but before the time limit of 30 working days referred to in Article 119(9), third subparagraph, of that Regulation expires, the following rules shall apply:

(a)the Member State shall inform the Commission of its decision to add the notified amendments to which the Commission objected to the previously submitted request for a strategic amendment within two working days of the receipt of the Commission’s objections pursuant to Article 119(9), third subparagraph, of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;

(b)if the Member State does not inform the Commission within the time limit set out in point (a) of this paragraph of its decision regarding the notified other amendments of the CAP Strategic Plan to which the Commission objected, those amendments may be added only to the next request for a strategic amendment pursuant to Article 119(2) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;

(c)if the Member State informs the Commission within the time limit set out in point (a) of this paragraph of its decision to add the notified other amendments, to which the Commission objected, to a previously submitted request for a strategic amendment:

(i)the Commission’s objections to those notified other amendments of the CAP Strategic Plan shall be deemed to constitute observations made in accordance with Article 119(5) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;

(ii)the time limit for approval of the request for a strategic amendment laid down in Article 119(6) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 shall be interrupted from the receipt of the Commission’s objections until the Member State fully addresses all observations in accordance with Article 5(1) of this Regulation;

(iii)the Member State shall, within 10 working days from the day on which it informed the Commission of its decision pursuant to point (a), of this paragraph, include those notified other amendments to which the Commission objected in the amended CAP Strategic Plan accompanying the submitted request for a strategic amendment;

(iv)the Commission may make additional observations in respect to the notified other amendments of the CAP Strategic Plan to which the Commission objected, including requesting additional information concerning those amendments, even if the time limit for the Commission to make observations laid down in Article 119(5) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 expired in respect to the previously submitted request for a strategic amendment to which those amendments were added.