
Article 1 
This Decision concerns the standard requirements for the submission of applications for grants, reports and requests for payment in respect of annual and multiannual survey programmes carried out by Member States concerning the presence of organisms harmful to plants or plant products (‘pests’), which comply with the conditions stipulated in Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014.
Article 2 
Survey programmes referred to in Article 21(1) of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 shall be submitted on-line by using the relevant electronic template indicated in Annex I.
Article 3 
Intermediate financial reports referred to in Article 23 of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014 shall be submitted on-line by using the relevant electronic template indicated in Annex II.
Article 4 
Annual detailed technical and financial reports referred to in Article 23 of Regulation (EU) No 652/2014, as well as the payment requests referred to in Article 24 of the same Regulation shall be submitted on-line by using the relevant electronic templates indicated in Annex III.
Article 5 
This Decision shall apply to the submission of the survey programmes referred to in Article 2 and the reports referred to in Articles 3 and 4 as from 1 January 2017.
Article 6 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 24 October 2016.
For the Commission
Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS
Member of the Commission
ANNEX I

The specific template to be used to submit the application for annual- multiannual survey national programmes referred to in Article 2 is available on the DG SANTE website: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_food-safety/funding/cff/plant_health/survey-programmes_en.htm, in section 2. Templates for submission of survey programmes, 1. Application tool for Survey programmes for pests.

ANNEX II

The specific template to be used to submit the intermediate reports of approved survey programmes referred to in Article 3 is available on the DG SANTE website: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_food-safety/funding/cff/plant_health/survey-programmes_en.htm, in section 3. Templates for reporting, 2. Financial intermediate report.

ANNEX III

The specific template to be used to submit the final annual reports (including the payment requests) of approved survey programmes referred to in Article 4 is available on the DG SANTE website: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_food-safety/funding/cff/plant_health/survey-programmes_en.htm, in section 3. Templates for reporting, 1. Final annual technical and financial report.
