# Commission Regulation (EC) No 951/2007 of 9 August 2007 laying down implementing rules for cross-border cooperation programmes financed under Regulation (EC) No 1638/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down general provisions establishing a European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument, Article 2: Definitions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
1.. ‘technical assistance’ means preparatory work, management, monitoring, evaluation, information, audit and control, and any administrative capacity-building activities necessary for implementation of the joint operational programmes;
2.. ‘beneficiary’ means a body which signs a grant contract with the Joint Managing Authority and which assumes full legal and financial responsibility for project implementation vis-à-vis that authority; it receives the financial contribution from the Joint Managing Authority and ensures it is managed and, where appropriate, distributed in accordance with the agreements drawn up with its partners; it alone is responsible to the Joint Managing Authority and it is directly accountable to the authority for the operational and financial progress of activities;
3.. ‘contractor’ means a body which signs a service, works or supply contract with the Joint Managing Authority and which assumes full legal and financial responsibility for implementation of that contract vis-à-vis the Joint Managing Authority;
4.. ‘strategy paper’ means the document which is referred to in Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1638/2006 and which establishes the list of the joint operational programmes, their multiannual indicative envelope and territorial units eligible within each programme;
5.. ‘participating countries’ means all Member States and partner countries taking part in the joint operational programme;
6.. ‘partner countries’ means the countries and territories listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1638/2006;
7.. ‘large-scale projects’ means projects comprising a set of works, activities or services intended to fulfil an indivisible function of a precise nature pursuing clearly identified objectives of common interest for the purposes of implementing cross-border investments;
8.. ‘own resources of the countries participating in the joint operational programme’ means financial resources from the central, regional or local budget of the participating countries;
9.. ‘operational follow-up of the projects’ means follow-up of the operations financed by the programme in accordance with the method for the project-management cycle, from programming to technical monitoring of implementation to evaluation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2007/951/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-951/article-2
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