
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 501/2008 is amended as follows:

((a)) in Article 8(1), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
'Trade and inter-trade organisations in the Union which are representative of the sectors concerned (hereinafter referred to as “proposing organisations”) shall submit their programmes to the Member State no later than 28 February';
((b)) Article 11 is replaced by the following:
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Article 11 

1. Member States shall send to the Commission the list referred to in Article 9(1) including, if applicable, the list of implementing bodies which they have selected, if these have already been selected in accordance with Article 8(3), and a copy of each programme. It shall be submitted both electronically and by post and received by the Commission no later than 30 April.In the case of programmes involving more than one Member State, this notification shall be made by common accord of the Member States concerned.
2. No later than 15 July the Commission shall inform the Member States concerned if it finds that all or part of a programme submitted does not comply with:
(a) the Union rules; or
(b) the guidelines, in the case of the internal market; or
(c) the criteria referred to in Article 9(2), in the case of third countries.
3. In accordance with the third subparagraph of Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 3/2008, the Member States shall send their amended programmes to the Commission within 55 calendar days of receiving the information referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article.After checking the amended programmes the Commission shall decide no later than 30 November which programmes it may part-finance in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 16(2) of Regulation (EC) No 3/2008.
4. The proposing organisation(s) shall be responsible for the proper implementation and management of the programmes selected.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply to the proposals for programmes referred to in Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 to be submitted as from 2015.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 23 July 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO