2014/251/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 29 April 2014 on the clearance of the accounts of the paying agencies of Member States concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) for the 2013 financial year (notified under document C(2014) 2785)

With the exception of the paying agencies referred to in Article 2, the accounts of the paying agencies of the Member States concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in respect of the 2013 financial year, are hereby cleared. The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each Member State under each rural development programme pursuant to this decision, including those resulting from the application of Article 33(8) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, are set out in Annex I.

For the 2013 financial year, the accounts of the Member States' paying agencies in respect of expenditure per Rural Development programme financed by the EAFRD, set out in Annex II, are disjoined from this Decision and shall be the subject of a future clearance of accounts Decision.

The present decision is without prejudice to the possible further conformity clearance decisions that the Commission may take pursuant to Article 31 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 to exclude from European Union financing expenditure not effected in accordance with European Union rules.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.