Article 4 Preparation of the SPDF1

The competent OCTs authorities shall prepare a proposal for the SPD following consultations with the widest possible range of stakeholders in the development process, and shall draw on lessons learned and best practices.

Each proposal for an SPD shall be adapted to the needs and specific circumstances of each OCTs. It shall identify results-oriented indicators to be monitored and promote local ownership of cooperation programmes.

The proposal for the SPD shall be the subject of an exchange of views between the OCTs and Member State concerned and the Commission, via, if applicable, the relevant Delegation.

The OCTs shall provide all the necessary information, including the results of any feasibility studies, to make the appraisal of the draft SPD by the Commission as effective as possible.

The 10th EDF financial allocation shall in principle be provided as budgetary support, save in exceptional and duly justified circumstances.

Where the conditions for budgetary support are not met, the SPD shall provide for measures to create the conditions for budgetary support.

Any divergences between the OCTs’s own analysis and the Community’s shall be noted.