This Regulation lays down specific rules establishing uniform conditions for the implemention of the Regulation (EU) 2021/1529 as regards the structures of implementation of IPA III assistance, indirect management with IPA III beneficiaries and specific rules for cross-border cooperation and agriculture and rural development assistance. This Implementing Regulation does not cover cross-border cooperation between one or more Member States and one or more IPA III beneficiaries, unless financing agreements concluded in accordance with Article 59 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1059 refer to this Implementing Regulation, a given financial framework partnership agreement or a specific provision thereof. This Regulation sets out the principles of Union financing; the principles of the ownership of the programming and implementation of IPA III, rules regarding the financial framework partnership agreement setting out specific arrangements for the management, control, supervision, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and audit of IPA III assistance; reporting requirements; establishment of an IPA monitoring committee; indirect management structures and authorities by the IPA III beneficiaries; establishment of IPA sectoral monitoring committees to monitor annual and multiannual programmes implemented in indirect management by the IPA III beneficiary; evaluations by the IPA III beneficiary in indirect management; financial correction mechanisms to be used by the Commission; thematic priorities of IPA III assistance for cross-border cooperation and co-financing; technical assistance support for each cross-border cooperation programme; selection of operations under a cross-border cooperation programme; establishment of beneficiaries in an IPA III beneficiary participating in the programme; structures to be involved in the management of cross-border cooperation programmes in the IPA III beneficiaries; specific financing provisions; specific provisions of rural development assistance; and financing of selected rural development programmes as funded under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
2021-12-15