{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1717/article-11",
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  "legislation": "eur/2006/1717",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1717/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 November 2006 establishing an Instrument for Stability",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1717",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Types of measures",
  "text": "1. Community financing may take the following forms:\n(a) projects and programmes;\n(b) sectoral or general budget support, where the partner country's arrangements for managing public funds are sufficiently transparent, reliable and effective, and where proper sectoral or macro-economic policies have been put in place by the partner country and approved by its main donors, including international financial institutions where applicable. Budgetary support may in general be one of several instruments. It shall be allocated with precise objectives and related benchmarks. Disbursement of budgetary support shall be conditional on satisfactory progress towards achieving the objectives in terms of impact and results;\n(c) in exceptional cases, sectoral and general import-support programmes, which may take the form of:\n(i) sectoral programmes for imports in kind,\n(ii) sectoral import programmes providing foreign currency to finance imports for the sector in question, or\n(iii) general import programmes providing foreign currency to finance general imports, covering a wide range of products;\n(d) funds made available to financial intermediaries in accordance with Article 20, with a view to providing loans (to support investment and development of the private sector, for example), risk capital (in the form of subordinated or conditional loans) or other temporary minority holdings in business capital, to the extent that the financial risk of the Community is limited to these funds;\n(e) grants to fund measures;\n(f) grants to cover operating costs;\n(g) funding for twinning programmes between public institutions, national public bodies or private-law entities with a public-service mission of a Member State and those of a partner country or region;\n(h) contributions to international funds, in particular those managed by international or regional organisations;\n(i) 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 operations;\n(j) human and material resources required for effective administration and supervision of projects and programmes by partner countries and regions.\n2. Community financing shall in principle not be used for paying taxes, duties or charges in beneficiary countries.\n3. Activities covered by Regulation (EC) No 1257/96 and eligible for funding thereunder may not be funded under this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/1717/article/11",
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  },
  "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."
}