Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 17 December 2013laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 (c. 1303)

PART TWO U.K. [F1 COMMON PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SUPPORT FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT]

TITLE III U.K. PROGRAMMING

CHAPTER II U.K. Community-led local development

Article 32 U.K. Community-led local development

[F2 1. Support for rural development must be provided by the relevant authority for community-led led local development.]

2. Community-led local development shall be:

(a) focused on specific subregional areas;

(b) led by local action groups composed of representatives of public and private local socio-economic interests, in which, at the decision-making level neither public authorities, as defined in accordance with national rules, nor any single interest group represents more than 49 % of the voting rights;

(c) carried out through integrated and multi-sectoral area-based local development strategies;

(d) designed taking into consideration local needs and potential, and shall include innovative features in the local context, networking and, where appropriate, cooperation.

3. [F3 Where support for rural development is made available to community-led local development it must be done so in a consistent and coordinated way.] This shall be ensured inter alia through coordinated capacity-building, selection, approval and funding of community-led local development strategies and local action groups.

F4 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F5 5. Community-led local development funded by support for rural development must be carried out under one or more priorities of the relevant programme or programmes in accordance with the Fund-specific rules.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Art. 32(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 7(6)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1542, regs. 1(2), 13(5)(c)(i)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 32(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 7(6)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1542, regs. 1(2), 13(5)(c)(ii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Art. 32(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 7(6)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Art. 32(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 7(6)(d) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1542, regs. 1(2), 13(5)(c)(iii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 2 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 5(1) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1542, regs. 1(2), 13(3)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)