Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation
Modified by
- Commission Regulation (EC) No 960/2009of 14 October 2009amending Regulation (EC) No 1905/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation, 32009R0960, October 15, 2009
consolidate and support democracy, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, good governance, gender equality and related instruments of international law; foster the sustainable development — including political, economic, social and environmental aspects — of partner countries and regions, and more particularly the most disadvantaged among them; encourage their smooth and gradual integration into the world economy; help develop international measures to preserve and improve the quality of the environment and the sustainable management of global natural resources, in order to ensure sustainable development, including addressing climate change and biodiversity loss; and strengthen the relationship between the Community and partner countries and regions.
the characteristics of the beneficiary require otherwise, or the programme implements a global initiative, a community policy priority or an international obligation or commitment of the Community, as referred to in Article 11(2), and the measure does not have the characteristics to fulfil such criteria.
(a) a development process that is partner country led and owned. The Community shall increasingly align its support with partners' national development strategies, reform policies and procedures. The Community shall contribute to strengthening the process of mutual accountability between partner governments and donors and promote local expertise and local employment; (b) inclusive and participatory approaches to development and a broad involvement of all segments of society in the development process and in national dialogue, including political dialogue; (c) effective cooperation modalities and instruments as set out in Article 25 in line with OECD/DAC best practices, adapted to the particular circumstances of each partner country or region, with a focus on programme-based approaches, delivery of predictable aid funding, the development and use of country systems and on results-based approaches to development including, where appropriate, MDG targets and indicators; (d) improved impact of policies and programming through coordination and harmonisation between donors to reduce overlap and duplication, to improve complementarity and to support donor-wide initiatives. Coordination shall take place in partner countries and regions using agreed guidelines and best practice principles on coordination and aid effectiveness; (e) an MDG profile in Country Strategy Papers and in its multiannual programming.
(a) supporting the implementation of policies aimed at poverty eradication and at the achievement of the MDGs;
(b) addressing the essential needs of the population with prime attention to primary education and health, in particular by: Health: (i) increasing access to and provision of health services for lower income population groups and marginalised groups, including women and children, persons belonging to groups subject to ethnic, religious or any other discrimination and persons with disabilities, with a central focus on the related MDGs, namely reducing child mortality, improving maternal and child health and sexual and reproductive health and rights as set out in the Cairo Agenda of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), addressing poverty diseases, in particular HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; (ii) strengthening health systems in order to prevent human resource crises in the health sector; (iii) enhancing capacities particularly in areas such as public health and research and development;
Education: (iv) giving priority in primary education to achieving quality primary education followed by vocational training and to reduce inequalities in terms of access to education; promoting compulsory and free education up to the age of 15 to combat all forms of child labour; (v) aiming at achieving universal primary education by 2015, and at eliminating gender disparity in education; (vi) promoting vocational training, higher education, life-long learning, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation, academic and cultural exchanges as well as enhancing mutual understanding between partner countries and regions and the Community;
(c) promoting social cohesion as a priority policy of the relations between the Community and partner countries, with a focus on decent work and social and fiscal policies, thereby fighting against poverty, inequality, unemployment and exclusion of vulnerable and marginalised groups; (d) combating all forms of group-based discrimination and promoting and protecting gender equality, indigenous peoples' rights and the rights of the child, including supporting implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and actions to address the problems faced by street children and children undertaking forms of labour that are hazardous and/or hinder full-time education; (e) strengthening the institutional framework to promote and facilitate the creation of small and medium sized enterprises with a view to stimulating job creation;
(f) promoting and protecting fundamental freedoms and human rights, strengthening democracy, the rule of law, access to justice and good governance including actions to combat corruption, which may include, but are not limited to, capacity building and strengthening the institutional and legislative framework, particularly in the areas of national administration, design and implementation of policies and management of public finances and national resources in a transparent way; (g) supporting an active civil society, including civil society organisations representing people living in poverty, as well as promoting civic dialogue, participation and reconciliation, and institution-building; (h) fostering cooperation and policy reform in the fields of security and justice, especially as regards asylum and migration, the fight against drugs and other trafficking including trafficking in human beings, corruption and money laundering; (i) fostering cooperation and policy reform in the field of migration and asylum with partner countries and promoting capacity building initiatives to ensure the formulation and implementation of pro-development migration policies to address the root causes of migration; (j) supporting effective multilateralism, in particular through compliance with, and the effective implementation of, international law and multilateral agreements relevant to the field of development;
(k) assisting partner countries and regions on trade, investment and regional integration including technical assistance and capacity building to design and implement sound trade policies, favouring a more conducive business environment, sound economic and financial policies and private sector development, with a view to partner countries and regions benefiting from their integration into the world economy and to supporting social justice and pro-poor growth; (l) supporting accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and implementation of WTO agreements by technical assistance and capacity building, in particular the implementation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (the TRIPS Agreement), notably in the area of public health; (m) supporting economic and trade cooperation and strengthening investment relations between the Community and partner countries and regions, including by actions to promote and ensure that private actors, including local and European businesses, contribute to socially responsible and sustainable economic development, including respect for the core labour standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and by actions to promote local capacity building;
(n) promoting sustainable development through environmental protection and sustainable management of natural resources, including protection of biodiversity, and of forests, including activities for the conservation and sustainable management of forests with active participation of local communities and forest-dependent peoples; (o) supporting improvements in the urban environment; (p) promoting sustainable patterns of production and consumption and the safe and sustainable management of chemicals and waste, taking into account their impacts on health; (q) ensuring respect for and supporting the implementation of international environment agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in line with the EU Action Plan on Climate Change, and their protocols and any subsequent modifications; (r) developing capacities for emergency preparedness and prevention of natural disasters;
(s) supporting sustainable integrated water resource management, with particular emphasis on universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation in line with the MDGs and sustainable and efficient use of water resources, including for agricultural and industrial purposes; (t) fostering greater use of sustainable energy technologies;
(u) contributing to the development of economic infrastructure, including support to regional integration, and promoting the increased use of information and communication technologies;
(v) supporting sustainable rural development, including decentralisation and empowerment, particularly with a view to ensuring food security;
(w) reconstructing and rehabilitating, in the medium- and long-term, regions and countries affected by conflict, man-made and natural disasters, including support for mine-action, demobilisation and reintegration actions, while ensuring the continuum between relief, rehabilitation and development in accordance with Article 2(6), bearing in mind the competences of the Community and its Member States; (x) carrying out medium- and long-term activities aimed at the self-sufficiency and integration or reintegration of uprooted people, ensuring that an integrated and consistent approach between humanitarian aid, rehabilitation, aid to uprooted people and development cooperation is pursued. Community action shall facilitate the move from the emergency stage to that of development, encouraging the socio-economic integration or reintegration of the people affected, and encourage the establishment or strengthening of democratic structures and the role of the population in the development process; (y) in fragile or failing States, supporting the delivery of basic services and building of legitimate, effective and resilient public institutions; (z) addressing development challenges common to the Community and its partners, in particular support to sectoral dialogues, to the implementation of bilateral agreements and to any other area of action consistent with the scope of this Regulation.
(a) promoting social cohesion as a shared goal and priority policy of Community-Latin America relations thereby fighting against poverty, inequality and exclusion. Particular attention shall be paid to social welfare and tax policies, productive investment for more and better jobs, policies to combat discrimination and production, consumption and trafficking of drugs, and improvements in basic social services, in particular health and education; (b) encouraging greater regional integration, including the support to different processes of regional integration and to the interconnection of network infrastructures, while ensuring complementarity with activities supported by European Investment Bank (EIB) and other institutions; (c) supporting the reinforcement of good governance and public institutions, and of the protection of human rights, including the rights of the child and indigenous peoples' rights; (d) supporting the creation of a common EU-Latin American higher education area; (e) promoting sustainable development in all its dimensions, with particular attention to the protection of forests and biodiversity.
(a) pursuing MDGs in the field of health, including HIV/AIDS, and education, inter alia , through policy dialogue for sectoral reform;(b) addressing governance issues in particular in fragile States so as to help build legitimate, effective and resilient public institutions and an active and organised civil society, and to enhance the protection of human rights, including the rights of the child; (c) encouraging greater regional integration and cooperation through support to different processes of regional integration and dialogue; (d) contributing to the control of epidemics and zoonoses as well as to the rehabilitation of the affected sectors; (e) promoting sustainable development in all its dimensions, with particular attention to the protection of forests and biodiversity; (f) fighting against production, consumption and trafficking of drugs and against other trafficking.
(a) promoting constitutional reforms and legislative, administrative and regulatory approximation with the Community, including strengthening of national institutions and bodies responsible for the effective implementation of policies in areas covered in the Partnership and Cooperation Agreements, such as election bodies, parliaments, public administration reform and public financial management; (b) promoting the development of a market economy and partner countries' integration into the WTO, while addressing the social aspects of the transition; (c) supporting efficient border management and cross-border cooperation to promote sustainable economic, social and environmental development in border regions; (d) fighting against production, consumption and trafficking of drugs and against other trafficking; (e) fighting against HIV/AIDS; (f) promoting regional cooperation, dialogue and integration, including with countries covered by Regulation (EC) No 1638/2006 and other Community instruments, in particular promoting cooperation in the environment — notably water and sanitation —, education, energy and transport sectors, including the security and safety of international energy supply and transport operations, on interconnections, the networks and their operators, renewable energy sources, energy efficiency.
(a) encouraging social cohesion to ensure social equity, notably in relation to the use of domestic national resources and to ensure political equality in particular through the promotion of human rights, including gender equality; (b) promoting economic diversification, the development of a market economy, and partner countries' integration in the WTO; (c) promoting regional cooperation, dialogue and integration, including with countries covered by Regulation (EC) No 1638/2006 and other Community instruments via the support to integration efforts within the region, for example on the economy, energy, transportation and refugees; (d) supporting the conclusion of international agreements and the effective implementation of international law, in particular UN resolutions and multilateral conventions; (e) addressing governance issues in particular in fragile States so as to help build legitimate, effective and resilient public institutions and an active and organised civil society, and to enhance the protection of human rights, including the rights of the child.
(a) supporting the consolidation of a democratic society, good governance and a State governed by the rule of law and contributing to regional and continental stability and integration; (b) providing support to the adjustment efforts occasioned in the region by the establishment of free-trade areas under the Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement between the Community and South Africa Agreement on Trade, Development and Cooperation between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of South Africa, of the other part ( OJ L 311, 4.12.1999, p. 3 .)(c) supporting the fight against poverty, inequality and exclusion, including by addressing the basic needs of the previously disadvantaged communities; (d) addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its impacts on the South African society.
(a) Community policy objectives cannot be achieved in an appropriate or effective manner through geographic programmes and the thematic programme is implemented by or through an intermediary organisation such as non-governmental organisations, other non-State actors, international organisations or multilateral mechanisms. This includes global initiatives supporting the MDGs, sustainable development or global public goods and actions in Member States and acceding countries by way of derogation from Article 24 as envisaged in the relevant thematic programme, and/or (b) actions are of the following nature: multi-regional and/or cross-cutting actions, including pilot projects and innovatory policies; actions in cases where there is no agreement on the action with the partner government(s); actions relevant to the purpose of a specific thematic programme which respond to a Community policy priority or an international obligation or commitment of the Community; where appropriate, actions in cases where there is no geographic programme or it has been suspended.
(a) Good health for all: (i) fight against poverty diseases targeting the major communicable diseases such as laid down in the European Programme for action to confront HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, in particular: increase the affordability of key pharmaceuticals and diagnostics for the three diseases in accordance with the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement as clarified in the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health; encourage public and private investment in research and development for new treatments, new medicines, particularly vaccines, microbicides and innovative treatments; support global initiatives targeting the major communicable diseases in the context of poverty reduction, including the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria;
(ii) in line with the principles agreed at the ICPD and ICPD + 5, support actions to improve reproductive and sexual health in developing countries and to secure the right of women, men and adolescents to good reproductive and sexual health and provide financial assistance and appropriate expertise with a view to promoting a holistic approach to, and the recognition of, reproductive and sexual health and rights as defined in the ICPD Programme of Action, including safe motherhood and universal access to a comprehensive range of safe and reliable reproductive and sexual health care and services, supplies, education and information, including information on all kinds of family planning methods, including: reducing maternal mortality and morbidity rates, with particular reference to the countries and populations where these are highest;
(iii) improve equitable access to health providers, commodities and health services by supporting: interventions to address the human resources crisis in health; health information systems with the ability to generate, measure and analyse disaggregated performance data to ensure better health and development outcomes and sustainability of delivery systems; improved vaccination and immunisation coverage and promotion of the availability of, and access to, existing or new vaccines; fair mechanisms for financing equitable access to health care.
(iv) keeping a balanced approach between prevention, treatment and care, with prevention as a key priority, acknowledging that its effectiveness is increased when linked with treatment and care.
(b) Education, knowledge and skills: (i) special attention to actions taken in the context of the MDGs to achieve universal primary education by 2015 and the Dakar Framework for Action on Education for All; (ii) basic, secondary and higher education as well as vocational education and training to improve access to education for all children and, increasingly, for women and men of all ages, with a view to increasing knowledge, skills and employability on the job market, contributing to active citizenship and individual fulfilment on a life-long basis; (iii) the promotion of high quality basic education, with particular focus on access for girls, children in conflict-affected areas and children from marginalised and more vulnerable social groups to education programmes; the promotion of compulsory and free education up to the age of 15 to combat all forms of child labour; (iv) developing ways to measure learning outcomes in order to better assess the quality of education, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills; (v) promoting donor harmonisation and alignment to promote universal, compulsory, free and high quality education through international or multi-country initiatives; (vi) supporting an inclusive knowledge-based society and contributing to bridging the digital divide, knowledge and information gaps; (vii) improving knowledge and innovation through science and technology as well as development of, and access to, electronic communication networks in order to improve socio-economic growth and sustainable development in conjunction with the international dimension of EU research policy.
(c) Gender equality: (i) the promotion of gender equality and women's rights, implementing global commitments as detailed in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, activities include: supporting programmes that contribute to achieving the objectives of the Beijing Platform for Action with a special emphasis on gender equality in governance and political and social representation and other actions to empower women; strengthening institutional and operational capacities of key stakeholders, civil society organisations, women's organisations and networks, in their endeavours to promote gender equality and economic and social empowerment, including north-south and south-south networking and advocacy; including a gender perspective in monitoring and statistical capacity building, by supporting the development and dissemination of data and indicators disaggregated by sex, as well as gender equality data and indicators; reducing the adult illiteracy rate, with particular emphasis on female literacy; actions against violence against women.
(d) Other aspects of human and social development: (i) Culture: promotion of inter-cultural dialogue, cultural diversity and respect for the equal dignity of all cultures; promotion of international cooperation to stimulate the contribution of cultural industries to economic growth in developing countries to fully exploit its potential for fighting poverty, including addressing issues such as market access and intellectual property rights; promotion of respect for the social, cultural and spiritual values of indigenous peoples and minorities to enhance equality and justice in multi-ethnic societies in compliance with universal human rights to which everyone is entitled, including indigenous peoples and persons belonging to minorities; supporting culture as a promising economic sector for development and growth.
(ii) Employment and social cohesion: promotion of an integrated social and economic approach including promotion of productive employment, decent work for all, social cohesion, development of human resources, equity, social security and mapping employment issues and enhancing the quality of jobs in the informal sector and empowering labour associations, in accordance with the principles of the related ILO Conventions and the Community's international commitments in these areas; promotion of the "decent work for all" agenda as a universal objective, including through global and other multi-country initiatives to implement internationally agreed ILO core labour standards, assessment of trade impact on decent work, sustained and adequate mechanisms for fair financing, effective functioning — and wider coverage — of social protection systems; support for initiatives to promote the improvement of working conditions as well as the adjustment to trade liberalisation, including an employment dimension in development policies, to help spread European social values; help to promote the positive social dimension of globalisation and the EU's experience.
(iii) Youth and children: combating all forms of child labour, trafficking of and violence against children and promotion of policies taking into consideration youth's and children's particular vulnerability and potentials, protection of their rights and interests, education, health and livelihoods, starting with participation and empowerment; enhancing developing countries' attention and capacity to develop policies benefiting youth and children; advocacy for concrete strategies and interventions to address particular problems and challenges affecting youth and children taking their best interests into account in all relevant action. Participation by children and youth should be ensured; using the Community's position as the principal donor of ODA among international institutions to urge the multilateral donors to exert pressure for the framing of policies to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, particularly the hazardous ones with a view to promoting the effective elimination of all forms of child labour, combating trafficking of, and violence against, children and promoting the role of children and youth as actors for development.
(a) working upstream in assisting developing countries to achieve the MDG on environmental sustainability through capacity building for environmental integration in developing countries, supporting civil society actors, local authorities and consultative platforms, environmental monitoring and assessment, developing innovative approaches and twinning to share experience and reinforce cooperation in these areas with key countries; (b) promoting implementation of Community initiatives and agreed commitments at international and regional level and/or of a transboundary character through support for sustainable development including activities to address current and future climate change issues, biodiversity, desertification, forests, land degradation fisheries and marine resources, compliance with environmental standards (for products and production processes), sound chemicals and wastes management, fight against pollution, sustainable production and consumption and environment-related migration. This also includes efforts to promote good forest governance and combat illegal logging, particularly through FLEGT, and innovative activities for the conservation and sustainable management of forests with active participation of local communities and forest dependent peoples. With regard to water, the thematic programme will aim at establishing a framework for long term protection of water resources and promoting sustainable water use through support for policy coordination; (c) better integration of environmental objectives through support for methodological work, enhancing environmental expertise available for policy work, integration and innovative actions of the Community and promoting coherence; (d) strengthening environmental governance and supporting international policy development by working for coherence between the environmental and the other pillars of international governance for sustainable development and by assisting regional and international environmental monitoring and assessment, providing additional support to the Secretariats of multilateral environmental agreements, promoting effective compliance and enforcement measures for multilateral environmental agreements including through capacity building, supporting international organisations and processes, supporting civil society and policy think tanks, and improving the efficiency of international negotiations; (e) supporting sustainable energy options in partner countries and regions, through integration of sustainable energy in development plans and strategies, developing institutional support and technical assistance, creating a favourable legislative and policy framework to attract new business and investors in renewable energy, enhancing the role of energy as a means to create income generation for the poor, promoting innovative financing approaches, and encouraging regional cooperation between governments, non-governmental organisations and the private sector in the above areas. The Community's strategic actions will give particular encouragement to the use of renewable energy sources, increased energy efficiency, and the development of appropriate energy regulatory frameworks in the countries and regions concerned and the replacement of especially damaging energy sources by others which are less so.
(a) promote an inclusive and empowered society in order to: (i) benefit populations out of reach of mainstream services and resources and excluded from policy making processes; (ii) strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations and local authorities in partner countries, with a view to facilitating their participation in defining and implementing poverty reduction and sustainable development strategies; (iii) facilitate interaction between State and non-State actors in different contexts and support an increased role for local authorities in decentralisation processes;
(b) increase the level of awareness of the European citizen regarding development issues and mobilise active public support in the Community and acceding countries for poverty reduction and sustainable development strategies in partner countries, for fairer relations between developed and developing countries, and reinforce civil society and local authority roles for these purposes; (c) achieve more efficient cooperation, foster synergies and facilitate a structured dialogue between civil society networks and local authorities' associations, within their organisations and with Community institutions.
(a) interventions in developing countries and regions which: (i) strengthen participatory development and processes and inclusion of all actors, especially vulnerable and marginalised groups; (ii) support capacity development processes of the actors concerned at country, regional or local level; (iii) promote mutual understanding processes; (iv) facilitate citizens' active engagement in development processes and at strengthening their capacity to take action;
(b) raising public awareness of development issues and promoting education for development in the Community and in acceding countries, to anchor development policy in European societies, to mobilise greater public support in the Community and acceding countries for action against poverty and for fairer relations between developed and developing countries, to raise awareness in the Community of the issues and difficulties facing developing countries and their peoples, and to promote the social dimension of globalisation; (c) coordination and communication between civil society and local authority networks, within their organisations and between different types of stakeholders active in the European and global public debate on development.
(a) contributing to the provision of international public goods, in particular pro-poor demand driven research and technological innovation, as well as capacity development, scientific and technical South-South and South-North cooperation and twinning; (b) supporting global, continental and regional programmes which notably: (i) support food security information and early warning; (ii) support food security in specific fields such as agriculture, including formulation of regional agricultural policies and access to land, agricultural trade and natural resource management; (iii) promote, strengthen and complement national food security and poverty reduction strategies in the short, medium and longer-term; and (iv) support networking of policy experts and non-State actors to foster the global food security agenda;
(c) advocating and advancing the food security agenda. The Community shall continue to address key food security issues in the international debate, and shall promote harmonisation, coherence and alignment of policies and aid delivery modes of development partners and donors. In particular, the promotion of the role of civil society in food security issues should be strengthened; (d) addressing food insecurity in exceptional situations of transition and State fragility, playing a central role in linking relief, rehabilitation and development. The thematic programme shall: (i) support interventions to protect, maintain and recover productive and social assets vital for food security, to facilitate economic integration and longer term rehabilitation; and (ii) support crisis prevention and management, to address vulnerability to shocks and to strengthen people's resilience;
(e) developing innovative food security policies, strategies and approaches, and strengthening the potential for their replication and South-South dissemination. Areas for intervention may include agriculture, including land reform and land policy, sustainable management of and access to natural resources, food security in relation to rural and local development, including infrastructure, nutrition, demography and labour, migration, health and education. Consistency and complementarity with other Community programmes in these areas shall be ensured.
(a) fostering the links between migration and development, especially by encouraging the contribution of diasporas to the development of their country of origin and increasing the value of migrants' return; mitigating brain drain and promoting the circular movement of skilled migrants; facilitating financial transfers of migrants to their country of origin; supporting voluntary return and reintegration of migrants and building capacities for migration management; fostering capacity building efforts to help countries in the formulation of pro-development migration policies and in their capacity to jointly manage migration flows; (b) promoting well-managed labour migration, in particular by informing about legal migration and conditions of entry in and stay on the territory of the Member States of the Community; providing information on labour migration opportunities and needs in Member States and on qualifications of third country candidates for migration; supporting pre-departure training for candidates for legal migration; and encouraging the definition and implementation of legislative frameworks for migrant workers in third countries; (c) fighting illegal immigration and facilitating the readmission of illegal immigrants, including between third countries, and in particular, fighting the smuggling of and trafficking in human beings; discouraging illegal immigration and raising awareness of the risks related to it; improving capacities in the areas of border, visa and passport management, including the security of documents and the introduction of biometric data, and detection of forged documents; implementing effectively readmission agreements concluded with the Community and obligations arising out of international agreements; and assisting third countries in the management of illegal immigration and in the coordination of their policies; (d) protecting migrants, including the most vulnerable such as women and children against exploitation and exclusion through measures such as developing third countries' legislation in the field of migration; supporting integration and non-discrimination as well as measures to protect migrants from racism and xenophobia; preventing and fighting the smuggling of and trafficking in human beings and any form of slavery; (e) promoting asylum and international protection, including through regional protection programmes, in particular in strengthening institutional capacities; supporting the registration of asylum applicants and refugees; promoting international standards and instruments on the protection of refugees; supporting the improvement of reception conditions and local integration, and working towards lasting solutions.
(a) enhancing the competitiveness of the sugar and cane sector, where this is a sustainable process, taking into account the situation of the different stakeholders in the chain; (b) promoting the economic diversification of sugar-dependent areas; (c) addressing broader impacts generated by the adaptation process, possibly related, but not restricted, to employment and social services, land use and environmental restoration, the energy sector, research and innovation and macro-economic stability.
(a) partner countries and regions, and their institutions; (b) decentralised bodies in the partner countries, such as municipalities, provinces, departments and regions; (c) joint bodies set up by the partner countries and regions with the Community; (d) international organisations, including regional organisations, UN bodies, departments and missions, international and regional financial institutions and development banks, in so far as they contribute to the objectives of this Regulation; (e) Community institutions and bodies, but only for the purposes of implementing the support measures referred to in Article 26; (f) EU agencies; (g) the following entities and bodies of the Member States, partner countries and regions and any other third country complying with the rules on access to the Community's external assistance set out in Article 31, insofar as they help to achieve the objectives of this Regulation: (i) public or para-Statal bodies, local authorities and consortia or representative associations thereof; (ii) companies, firms and other private organisations and businesses; (iii) financial institutions that grant, promote and finance private investment in partner countries and regions; (iv) non-State actors as defined in paragraph 2; (v) natural persons.
(a) projects and programmes; (b) budget support if the partner country's management of public spending is sufficiently transparent, reliable and effective, and where it has put in place properly formulated sectoral or macroeconomic policies positively assessed by its principal donors; including, where relevant, the international financial institutions. The Commission shall consistently use an approach based on results and performance indicators and shall clearly define and monitor its conditionality and support efforts of partner countries to develop parliamentary control and audit capacities and to increase transparency and public access to information. Disbursement of budgetary support shall be conditional on satisfactory progress towards achieving the objectives in terms of impact and results; (c) sectoral support; (d) in exceptional cases, sectoral and general import programmes, which may take the form of: (i) sectoral import programmes in kind; (ii) sectoral import programmes providing foreign exchange to finance imports for the sector in question; or (iii) general import programmes providing foreign exchange to finance general imports of a wide range of products;
(e) funds made available to the EIB or other financial intermediaries on the basis of Commission programmes for the purpose of providing loans (in particular to support investment in and development of the private sector), risk capital (in the form of subordinated or conditional loans) or other temporary minority holdings in business capital, and contributions to guarantee funds in accordance with Article 32, to the extent that the financial risk of the Community is limited to these funds; (f) interest-rate subsidies, especially for environment related loans; (g) debt-relief, under internationally agreed debt relief programmes; (h) grants to finance projects submitted by entities of the type listed in Article 24(1)(b), (c), (d), (f) and (g)(i) to (v); (i) grants to finance the operating costs of entities of the type listed in Article 24(1)(b), (c), (d), (f) and (g)(i), (iii) and (iv); (j) funding for twinning programmes between public institutions, local authorities, national public bodies or private-law entities entrusted with public service tasks of a Member State and those of a partner country or region; (k) contributions to international funds, such as those managed by international or regional organisations; (l) contributions to national funds set up by partner countries and regions to attract joint financing from a number of donors, or contributions to funds set up by one or more donors for the purpose of the joint implementation of projects; (m) capital investments in international financial institutions and regional development banks; (n) human and material resources required for effective administration and supervision of projects and programmes by partner countries and regions.
(a) Member States and their regional and local authorities, and in particular their public and para-Statal agencies; (b) other donor countries, and in particular their public and para-Statal agencies; (c) international organisations, including regional organisations, and in particular international and regional financial institutions; (d) companies, firms, other private organisations and businesses, and other non-State actors; (e) partner countries and regions in receipt of funding.
the procedures of the beneficiary partner country or region satisfy the principles of transparency, proportionality, equal treatment and non-discrimination and prevent any conflict of interests, the beneficiary partner country or region undertakes to check regularly that the operations financed by the General Budget of the European Union have been properly implemented, to take appropriate measures to prevent irregularities and fraud, and, if necessary, to take legal action to recover unduly paid funds.
financing agreements, grant agreements, procurement contracts, employment contracts.
(a) Regulation (EC) No 2110/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2005 on access to Community external assistanceOJ L 344, 27.12.2005, p. 1 .(b) Regulation (EC) No 806/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on promoting gender equality in development cooperationOJ L 143, 30.4.2004, p. 40 .(c) Regulation (EC) No 491/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 March 2004 establishing a programme for financial and technical assistance to third countries in the areas of migration and asylum (AENEAS)OJ L 80, 18.3.2004, p. 1 .(d) Regulation (EC) No 1568/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2003 on aid to fight poverty diseases (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria) in developing countriesOJ L 224, 6.9.2003, p. 7 . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2110/2005.(e) Regulation (EC) No 1567/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 July 2003 on aid for policies and actions on reproductive and sexual health and rights in developing countriesOJ L 224, 6.9.2003, p. 1 . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2110/2005.(f) Regulation (EC) No 2130/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 October 2001 on operations to aid uprooted people in Asia and Latin American developing countriesOJ L 287, 31.10.2001, p. 3 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2110/2005.(g) Regulation (EC) No 2494/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 November 2000 on measures to promote the conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests and other forests in developing countriesOJ L 288, 15.11.2000, p. 6 . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2110/2005.(h) Regulation (EC) No 2493/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 November 2000 on measures to promote the full integration of the environmental dimension in the development process of developing countriesOJ L 288, 15.11.2000, p. 1 . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2110/2005.(i) Regulation (EC) No 1726/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 June 2000 on development cooperation with South AfricaOJ L 198, 4.8.2000, p. 1 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2110/2005(j) Council Regulation (EC) No 1659/98 of 17 July 1998 on decentralised cooperationOJ L 213, 30.7.1998, p. 6 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 625/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 99, 3.4.2004, p. 1 ).(k) Council Regulation (EC) No 1658/98 of 17 July 1998 on co-financing operations with European non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in fields of interest to the developing countriesOJ L 213, 30.7.1998, p. 1 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2110/2005.(l) Council Regulation (EC) No 1292/96 of 27 June 1996 on food-aid policy and food-aid management and special operations in support of food securityOJ L 166, 5.7.1996, p. 1 . Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1726/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 234, 1.9.2001, p. 10 ).(m) Council Regulation (EEC) No 443/92 of 25 February 1992 on financial and technical assistance to, and economic cooperation with, the developing countries in Asia and Latin AmericaOJ L 52, 27.2.1992, p. 1 . Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2112/2005 (OJ L 344, 27.12.2005, p. 23 ).
| Least Developed Countries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Côte d’Ivoire | Albania | |
| Angola | Ghana | Algeria | Antigua and Barbuda |
| Bangladesh | Kenya | Armenia | Argentina |
| Benin | Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of | Azerbaijan | Barbados |
| Bhutan | Kyrgyz Rep. | Bolivia | Belarus |
| Burkina Faso | Nigeria | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Belize |
| Burundi | Pakistan | Cameroon | Botswana |
| Cambodia | Papua New Guinea | Cape Verde | Brazil |
| Central African Rep. | Tajikistan | China | Chile |
| Chad | Uzbekistan | Colombia | Cook Islands |
| Comoros | Vietnam | Congo, Rep. | Costa Rica |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | Zimbabwe | Dominican Republic | Croatia |
| Djibouti | Ecuador | Cuba | |
| Equatorial Guinea | Egypt | Dominica | |
| Eritrea | El Salvador | Fiji | |
| Ethiopia | Georgia | Gabon | |
| Gambia | Guatemala | Grenada | |
| Guinea | Guyana | Jamaica | |
| Guinea-Bissau | Honduras | Kazakhstan | |
| Haiti | India | Lebanon | |
| Kiribati | Indonesia | Libya | |
| Laos | Iran | Malaysia | |
| Lesotho | Iraq | Mauritius | |
| Liberia | Jordan | ||
| Madagascar | Kosovo | Mexico | |
| Malawi | Marshall Islands | Montenegro | |
| Maldives | Micronesia, Federated States | ||
| Mali | Moldova, Republic of | Nauru | |
| Mauritania | Mongolia | ||
| Mozambique | Morocco | Palau | |
| Myanmar | Namibia | Panama | |
| Nepal | Nicaragua | Serbia | |
| Niger | Niue | Seychelles | |
| Rwanda | occupied Palestinian Territory | South Africa | |
| Samoa | Paraguay | ||
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Peru | St. Kitts-Nevis | |
| Senegal | Philippines | St. Lucia | |
| Sierra Leone | Sri Lanka | St. Vincent and Grenadines | |
| Solomon Islands | Swaziland | Suriname | |
| Somalia | Syria | Trinidad and Tobago | |
| Sudan | Thailand | Turkey | |
| Tanzania | The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | Uruguay | |
| Timor-Leste | Venezuela | ||
| Togo | Tonga | ||
| Tuvalu | Tunisia | ||
| Uganda | Turkmenistan | ||
| Vanuatu | Ukraine | ||
| Yemen | |||
| Zambia |
1. Barbados 2. Belize 3. Guyana 4. Jamaica 5. Saint Kitts and Nevis 6. Trinidad and Tobago 7. Fiji 8. Republic of the Congo 9. Côte d'Ivoire 10. Kenya 11. Madagascar 12. Malawi 13. Mauritius 14. Mozambique 15. Swaziland 16. Tanzania 17. Zambia 18. Zimbabwe
| Latin America | |
| Asia | |
| Central Asia | 719 |
| Middle East | 481 |
| South Africa | 980 |
| Investing in people | |
| Environment and sustainable management of natural resources | 804 |
| Non-State actors and local authorities in development | |
| Food security | |
| Migration and asylum | 384 |
1. Australia 2. Bahrain 3. Brunei 4. Canada 5. Chinese Taipei 6. Hong Kong 7. Japan 8. Korea 9. Macao 10. New Zealand 11. Kuwait 12. Qatar 13. Singapore 14. United Arab Emirates 15. United States of America