The State Aid (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Annual reports

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3.—(1) If an aid grantor grants aid that is exempt from the notification requirement in Article 108(3) of the TFEU by virtue of a block exemption regulation in a year, the aid grantor must, by the specified date, send the CMA an annual report for the year on the application of the block exemption regulation.

(2) The annual report must—

(a)contain the specified information in respect of each whole year or each part year during which the block exemption regulation has been used by the aid grantor; and

(b)be sent in the specified form.

(3) If the annual report relates to the ABER, the report must, if relevant, also contain information concerning the following—

(a)animal diseases or plant pest as referred to in Article 26 of the ABER; and

(b)meteorological information on the type, timing, relative magnitude and location of climatic events which can be assimilated to a natural disaster as referred to in Article 25 of the ABER or natural disasters in the agricultural sector as referred to in Article 30 of the ABER.

(4) In this paragraph, “specified” means specified by the CMA in a notice published under regulation 55.