1.Applicants for assistance under Article 13 and 14 must sign an undertaking not to apply for funding for the same project under another assistance scheme. However, they shall be relieved of this undertaking if the application for financing for their project under the Fund is rejected definitively.
2.Failure to comply with the undertaking prescribed in paragraph 1 shall entail:
the loss of rights regarding the quota buy-back programme provided for in Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92; and
loss of eligibility for assistance for the measures referred to in Articles 13 and 14 of this Regulation.
[F13. Where an irregularity, other than failure to comply with the undertaking provided for in paragraph 1, is committed intentionally, the applicant for assistance under Articles 13 and 14 shall pay a penalty equal to the assistance applied for. That sum shall be credited to the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF).]