7. In the case of a legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, Member States may apply the limits referred to in paragraph 6 at the level of the members of those legal persons or groups where national law provides for the individual members to assume rights and obligations comparable to those of individual farmers who have the status of a head of holding, in particular as regards their economic, social and tax status, provided that they have contributed to strengthening the agricultural structures of the legal persons or gr ...[+++]oups concerned.

In case of a legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, Member States may apply the degressivity of payments at the level of the members of these legal persons or groups where national law provides for the individual members to assume rights and obligations comparable to those of individual farmers who have the status of head of holding, in particular as regards their economic, social and tax status, provided that they have contributed to strengthening the agricultural structures of the legal persons or groups concerned.

The legal person designated for collective registration purposes shall be responsible for performance of duties under this Regulation.

non-contractual obligations arising out of the law of companies and other bodies corporate or unincorporated regarding matters such as the creation, by registration or otherwise, legal capacity, internal organisation or winding up of companies and other bodies corporate or unincorporated, the personal liability of officers and members as such for the obligations of the company or body and the personal liability of auditors to a company or to its members in the statutory audits of accounting documents;

13. Notes that there are doubts about the JEV programme in the form in which it has existed hitherto, as SMEs investing in other Member States prefer to create subsidiaries rather than joint ventures, or enter into looser cooperation agreements without the obligation to create a new legal entity; therefore notes that the JEV in its current form is no longer appropriate and calls on the Commission to come forward with new proposals to encourage SMEs to develop business links across national borders, and in particular to help setting up cooperation links and stimulate entrepreneurship in the new Member States;

13. Notes that there are doubts about the JEV programme in the form in which it has existed hitherto, as SMEs investing in other Member States prefer to create subsidiaries rather than joint ventures, or enter into looser co-operation agreements without the obligation to create a new legal entity; therefore notes that the JEV in its current form is no longer appropriate and calls on the Commission to come forward with new proposals to encourage SMEs to develop business links across national borders, and in particular to help setting up co-operation links and stimulate entrepreneurship in the new Member States;