
Article 1 
Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 259/2008 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. paragraph 1 is amended as follows:

((a)) the opening sentence is replaced by the following:
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1. The publication referred to in Article 44a of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 shall include the following information on beneficiaries who are legal persons:';
((b)) point (a) is deleted;
((c)) points (b) and (c) are replaced by the following:
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((b)) the full legal name as registered where the beneficiaries are legal persons with an autonomous legal personality pursuant to the legislation of the Member State concerned;
((c)) the full name of the association as registered or otherwise officially recognised where the beneficiaries are associations of legal persons without an own legal personality;';
2.. paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
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2. In the case of legal persons, Member States may publish more detailed information than provided for in paragraph 1.'.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 27 April 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO