TITLE V

CONTROL SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES IN RELATION TO CROSS COMPLIANCE
CHAPTER II

Control
Section 1

General provisions

Control system as regards cross-compliance
Article 65
1.
The relevant authority
shall establish a system guaranteeing effective control of the respect of cross-compliance. That system shall, in particular provide for:
1. where the competent control authority is not the paying agency, the transfer of the necessary information concerning the beneficiaries referred to in Article 92 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 from the paying agency to the specialised control bodies and/or, where applicable, via the coordinating authority;
2. the methods to be applied for the selection of control samples;
3. indications with regard to the nature and extent of the checks to be carried out;
4. control reports containing in particular any detected non-compliance and an assessment of its severity, extent, permanence and reoccurrence;
5. where the competent control authority is not the paying agency, the transfer of the control reports from the specialised control bodies either to the paying agency or the coordinating authority or both;
6. the application of the system of reductions and exclusions by the paying agency.
2.
The relevant authority
may provide for a procedure according to which the beneficiary indicates to the paying agency the elements necessary to identify the requirements and standards applicable to him.
Words in Art. 65(1)(2) substituted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 14(41); and words in Art. 65(1)(2) substituted (31.12.2020 in so far as it relates to common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 5(52); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Title 5 revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Removal of Cross-Compliance and Miscellaneous Revocations and Amendments, etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/816), reg. 1(1), Sch. Pt. 1 para. 1 Table 1 (with Sch. Pt. 2 para. 2)