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Removed5. Any administrative act as referred to in paragraph 4 shall be adopted and notified to the initiator, in particular where this initiator is a public or private body responsible for initiating or both initiating and implementing a joint project, in accordance with the national law applicable to such administrative acts.

Removed6. Once all administrative acts with regard to a given joint project are adopted, the Cross-border Coordination Point of the committing Member State shall inform the Cross-border Coordination Point of the transferring Member State and the coordination point at Union level.

Removed7. The Cross-border Coordination Point of the transferring Member State shall, where relevant, inform the competent transferring authorities.

RemovedArticle 20 Monitoring of Commitments and Statements

Removed1. Based on the administrative acts referred to in Articles 18(1) and 19(4), the committing and transferring Member States shall decide whether the monitoring of the application of a Commitment or of the amended national legislation pursuant to a Statement shall be entrusted to the authorities of the transferring Member State, in particular due to their expertise with the legal provisions transferred, or to the authorities of the committing Member State.

Removed2. Where the monitoring of the application of the transferred legal provisions is entrusted to the authorities of the transferring Member State, the committing Member State shall decide, in agreement with transferring Member States, whether the authorities of the transferring Member State shall act with regard to the addressees of the monitoring tasks on behalf and in the name of the authorities of the committing Member State or on behalf, but in their own name.

RemovedCHAPTER IV Legal protection against the application and monitoring of Commitments and Statements

RemovedArticle 21 Legal protection against the application of a Commitment or Statement

Removed1. Any person resident in the territory covered by a Commitment or Statement or, although not resident in that territory, being user of a service of general economic interest provided in that territory ('person resident in the cross-border region'), who considers itself wronged by the acts or omissions by the application, pursuant to a Commitment or a Statement, of a legal provision of a transferring Member State shall be entitled to seek legal redress before the courts of the committing Member State.

Removed2. However, the competent courts for legal redress against any administrative acts adopted under Article 18(3) and 19(5) shall be exclusively the courts of the Member State whose authorities issued the administrative act.

Removed3. Nothing in this Regulation shall deprive persons from exercising their national constitutional rights of appeal against authorities which are parties of a Commitment in respect of:

Removed(a) administrative decisions in respect of activities which are being carried out pursuant to a Commitment;

Removed(b) access to services in their own language; and

Removed(c) access to information.

RemovedIn these cases the competent courts shall be those of the Member State under whose constitution the rights of appeal arise.

RemovedArticle 22 Legal protection against the monitoring of Commitments or Statements

Removed1. Where the competent transferring authority has accepted to monitor the application of the legal provisions of the transferring Member State in the relevant area and can act in its own name towards persons resident in the cross-border region of the committing Member State, the competent courts for legal redress against any action or omission by that authority shall be the courts of the Member State where those persons have their legal residence.

Removed2. Where the competent transferring authority has accepted to monitor the application of the legal provisions of the committing Member State on the territory of the committing Member State, but cannot act on its own name towards persons resident in the cross-border region, the competent courts for legal redress against any action or omission by that authority shall be only the courts of the committing Member State, including for persons having their legal residence in the transferring Member State.

RemovedCHAPTER V Final provisions

RemovedArticle 23 Committee procedure

Removed1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Coordination Committee for the European Structural and Investment Funds established by Article 108(1) of Regulation (EU) No .../... [new CPR]. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.

Removed2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

RemovedArticle 24 Implementing provisions in the Member States

Removed1. Member States shall make such provisions as are appropriate to ensure the effective application of this Regulation

Removed2. By ... [date of application of this Regulation], Member States shall inform the Commission accordingly of any provisions adopted under paragraph 1.

Removed3. The Commission shall render public the information received from the Member States.

RemovedArticle 25 Reporting

Removed1. By dd mm yyyy [i.e. the first day of the month following the date of entry into force of this Regulation + five three years], the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament, the Council and the Committee of the Regions assessing the application of this Regulation based on indicators on its effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, European added value and scope for simplification.

Removed2. In the report referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission shall make particular reference to this Regulation’s geographical and thematic scope as defined in points (1) and (2) of Article 3 respectively.

Removed3. Before the report is prepared, the Commission shall carry out a public consultation with the various actors involved, including local and regional authorities and civil society organisations. [Am. 55]

RemovedArticle 26 Entry into force and application

RemovedThis Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

RemovedIt shall apply from ... [the first day of the month following the date of entry into force of this Regulation + one year].

RemovedHowever, Article 24 shall apply from ... [the first day of the month following the date of entry into force of this Regulation].

RemovedThis Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

RemovedDone at ...,

RemovedFor the European Parliament For the Council

RemovedThe President The President