Article 7

Aid shall not be allocated to the partners referred to in Article 4(1) unless they undertake to comply with the allocation and implementation conditions which are laid down by the Commission and to which they shall be contractually bound.

Activities aided by the Community shall be implemented in accordance with the objectives laid down in the Commission financing decision.

Community financing under this Regulation shall take the form of grants or contracts. Within the framework of operations under Article 2, members of EU Election Observation Missions paid from the human rights and democratisation appropriations shall be recruited in accordance with the procedures laid down by the Commission.

Where operations financed under this Regulation are the subject of financing agreements between the Community and the recipient countries, such agreements shall stipulate that taxes, charges and customs duties are not to be borne by the Community.