http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1986/article/2Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1986 of 30 June 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the conditions and procedures to determine whether amounts which are irrecoverable shall be reimbursed by Member States concerning the Fund for European Aid to the Most DeprivedCommission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1986Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1986 of 30 June 2016 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the conditions and procedures to determine whether amounts which are irrecoverable shall be reimbursed by Member States concerning the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived2020-12-09King's Printer of Acts of Parliamenthttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R1986texttext/xmlen2016-06-30 Conditions for determining fault or negligence on the part of the Member States Article 2 The following criteria are indicative of fault or negligence on the part of the Member State: the Member State did not submit any description of the administrative and legal measures, with dates, taken by the Member State to recover the relevant amount (or to reduce or cancel the level of support or withdraw the document setting out the conditions for support referred to in Article 32(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 223/2014, where such a withdrawal is subject to a separate procedure); the Member State did not provide a copy of the first and any subsequent recovery order (and of any copy of the document reducing or cancelling the level of support or withdrawing the document setting out the conditions for support referred to in Article 32(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 223/2014, where such withdrawal is subject to a separate procedure); the Member State did not provide the date of the last payment of the public contribution to the beneficiary of the given operation and a copy of proof of this payment; the Member State, after detection of the irregularity, made one or more undue payments to the beneficiary in relation to the part of the operation that was affected by the irregularity; the Member State did not send the document reducing the level of support or withdrawing the document setting out the conditions for support referred to in Article 32(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 223/2014, where such withdrawal is subject to a separate procedure, or take any equivalent decision within 12 months of the detection of the irregularity; the Member State did not initiate the recovery procedure within 12 months of the support being definitively reduced or cancelled (either after an administrative or judicial procedure or by agreement of the beneficiary); the Member State did not exhaust all recovery possibilities available under its institutional and legal framework; the Member State did not provide documents relating to insolvency and bankruptcy procedures, where applicable; the Member State did not reply to the Commission's request for further information in accordance with Article 3.