PART 2Financing, Management and Monitoring Amendments

Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 1306/201317

In Article 76—

a

in paragraph 1—

i

for “protects the financial interests of the Union” substitute “ensures proper management of public money”;

ii

for the words from “Commission” to “Article 115” substitute “appropriate authority may make regulations”;

iii

in point (b), omit “by the Member States”;

b

in paragraph 2—

i

for the words from “Commission” to “Article 115” substitute “appropriate authority may make regulations”;

ii

in point (c), for the words from “such” to “eligible area” substitute “such rules may allow, in relation to areas under permanent grassland, for scattered landscape features and trees, the total area of which does not exceed a specified percentage of the reference parcel, to be part of the eligible area automatically”.