Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/892Show full title

Article 21 Information and annual reports from producer groups, producer organisations and associations of producer organisations and annual reports from Member States

1. At the request of the competent authority of the Member State, producer groups formed pursuant to Article 125e of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, recognised producer organisations and associations of producer organisations shall provide any relevant information needed for the drawing up of the annual report referred to in Article 54(b) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/891. Member States shall take the measures necessary to gather information on the number of members, the volume and the value of marketed production of producer organisations which have not submitted operational programmes. Producer organisations and producer groups referred to in Article 27 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 shall be requested to provide the number of members, the volume and the value of the marketed production.

2. Producer organisations and associations of producer organisations shall submit annual reports on the implementation of their operational programmes with their applications for aid.

Those annual reports shall concern the following:

(a) the operational programme implemented during the preceding year;

(b) the main amendments to the operational programme; and

(c) differences between estimated aid and aid applied for.

3. The annual report from producer organisations and associations of producer organisations shall indicate:

(a) the achievements of the operational programme, based on the indicators set out in Annex II and, where applicable, additional indicators set out in the national strategy as follows:

(i)

common baseline indicators and input (financial) indicators shall be used in each annual report;

(ii)

result and output indicators shall be used in the last two years of the operational programme; and

(b) a summary of the major problems encountered in managing the programme and the measures taken to ensure the quality and effectiveness of programme implementation.

Where applicable, the annual report shall specify what safeguards have been put in place, in accordance with the national strategy and in application of Article 33(6) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, to protect the environment from possible increased pressures coming from investments supported under the operational programme.

4. The annual report from producer organisations and associations of producer organisations of the last but one year of an operational programme shall show to what extent the objectives pursued by the programmes have been achieved. This report shall also mention factors which contributed to the success or failure of the programme's implementation and the way those factors were taken into account in the ongoing programme or will be taken into account in the following operational programme.

The Member State shall include details of cases referred to in the first subparagraph in its annual report referred to in Article 54(b) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/891.