{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2304/annex/part-B/chapter-6/division-OPTION/division-3/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2304/annex/part-B/chapter-6/division-OPTION/division-3/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2002/2304",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 2304/2002 of 20 December 2002 implementing Council Decision 2001/822/EC on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Community ('Overseas Association Decision')",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2304",
  "path": "annex/part/B/chapter/6/division/OPTION/division/3/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Implementation method",
  "text": "Choose the relevant option in accordance with the selected financing modality:\ncentralised management,\njoint management through the signature of an agreement with an international organisation,\ndecentralised management through the signature of a financing agreement with an OCTs (in case of partly centralised implementation and partly decentralised implementation, use this option).\nIn case of decentralisation of procurement contracts and grant award procedures:\nthe Commission controls ex ante the contracting procedures for procurement contracts > EUR 50 000 and ex post for procurement contracts < EUR 50 000 ,\nor\nthe Commission controls ex post the contracting procedures (full decentralisation can only be chosen if the criteria of decentralisation set out in the Financial Regulation are fully met).\nIn case of decentralisation of payments (only possible where the award procedures for the relevant contracts have been decentralised):\nthrough the programme estimates, payments are decentralised for operating costs and contracts up to the following ceilings,\nWorks\nSupplies\nServices\nGrants\n< EUR 300 000\n< EUR 150 000\n< EUR 200 000\n≤ EUR 100 000\nor\nthe payments are fully decentralised (full decentralisation can only be chosen if the criteria of decentralisation set out in the Financial Regulation are fully met).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1424/2007 of 4 December 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 2304/2002 implementing Council Decision 2001/822/EC on the association of the overseas countries and territories with the European Community and allocating the indicative amounts under the 10th European Development Fund."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/2304/annex/part/B/chapter/6/division/OPTION/division/3/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:14.966066+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}