- Enforced by
- DEFRA
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person2
Plus 11 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.s.article 11
MS Contribution
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Managing Authority must pay MS Contribution before EIF signs guarantee agreementsCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 14
Management Costs and Fees
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Managing Authority must pay EIF management costs and feesCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 15
Accounting
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must keep separate accounts, retain records and file audited statements annuallyCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 16
Operational and financial reporting
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must report on funding window performance to the Managing AuthorityCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 17
Audits, Controls and Monitoring
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must control and monitor Dedicated Window implementationStatutory regulator
s.s.article 18
Evaluation
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must require financial intermediaries to provide evaluation informationStatutory regulator
s.s.article 19
Procurement of goods, works and services
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must procure fairly and exclude blacklisted tenderersCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 20
Visibility
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must publicise EU funding and pass visibility duties to intermediariesCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 21
Publication of information on Financial Intermediaries
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must publish names of supported financial intermediaries annuallyCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 22
Assignment
Regulated
- Get written consent before transferring funding agreement rights or obligationsAny Person
s.s.article 3
Eligibility and exclusion criteria of the New Debt Finance
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must commit Member State contributions to SME debt-finance operationsCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 4
General principles related to the implementation and management of the Dedicated Window[s]
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- EIF must manage the Dedicated Windows under the Funding Agreement and EU lawCrown / Minister / Government department
s.s.article 9
Selection of Financial Intermediaries and Operational Agreements
Regulated
- Financial intermediaries must comply with anti-fraud, records and state-aid rulesAny Person
24 other provisions — procedural and definitional
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s.001
The model of the funding agreement for the financial contribution...
s.002
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following...
s.annex para.1
This Agreement is entered into on [•] 2014, by and...
s.annex para.2
[ Managing Authority of Member State participating in the SME...
s.annex para.3
WHEREAS:
s.annex para.4
the Parties have agreed as follows:
s.[managing authority of member state participating
[MANAGING AUTHORITY OF MEMBER STATE PARTICIPATING IN THE SME INITIATIVE]
s.s.article 1
Definitions and Interpretation
s.s.article 10
Governance
s.s.article 12
EIF Contribution
s.s.article 13
Dedicated Window[s] Account[s] and Treasury Asset Management
s.s.article 2
Purpose and Scope of this Funding Agreement
s.s.article 23
Liability
s.s.article 24
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
s.s.article 25
Effectiveness — Termination
s.s.article 26
Notices and Communications
s.s.article 27
Amendments and miscellaneous
s.s.article 28
Annexes
s.s.article 5
Objectives and Description of the Dedicated Window[s]
s.s.article 6
Territorial Coverage
s.s.article 7
Minimum Leverage Effect, Milestones and Penalties
s.s.article 8
Tasks and obligations of the EIF
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