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Article 7 Annual action programs

United Kingdom

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1.

The annual action programmes (hereinafter referred to as ‘action programmes’) shall be drawn up on the basis of the strategy paper and multiannual indicative programmes referred to in Articles 5 and 6, respectively. The action programmes shall be set out for each third country or region and shall specify details concerning the implementation of cooperation provided under this Regulation.

Exceptionally, in particular where an action programme has not yet been adopted, the Commission may, on the basis of the indicative programming documents, adopt individual measures under the same rules and procedures as for the action programmes.

In the event of unforeseen and duly justified needs, circumstances or commitments, the Commission may adopt special measures not provided for in the indicative programming documents.

2.

The action programmes shall specify the objectives pursued, the fields of intervention, the measures and projects envisaged, the expected results, the management procedures and total amount of financing planned. They shall contain a summary description of the operations to be financed, an indication of the amounts allocated for each operation, an indicative implementation timetable and specific indicators for monitoring, evaluation and review of performance, as appropriate. They shall include, if appropriate, the results of any lesson learned from previous cooperation.

3.

The Commission shall adopt the action programmes, individual measures and special measures in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 11(2). The Commission may revise and extend the action programmes and the measures following the same procedure.

4.

By derogation from paragraph 3, the examination procedure referred to in Article 11(2) shall not be required for:

  1. (i)

    individual measures for which the Union's financial assistance does not exceed EUR 5 million;

  2. (ii)

    special measures for which the Union's financial assistance does not exceed EUR 5 million;

  3. (iii)

    technical amendments to action programmes, individual measures and special measures.

For the purposes of this paragraph, ‘technical amendments’ shall mean adjustments such as:

  • extending the implementation period,

  • reassigning funds between actions contained in annual action programmes, individual and special measures and projects by not more than 20 % of the initial budget, but not exceeding EUR 5 million, or

  • increasing or reducing the budget of the annual action programmes, individual or special measures by not more than 20 % of the initial budget and not exceeding EUR 5 million,

provided that these amendments do not substantially affect the objectives of the initial measures and action programmes.

Measures adopted under this paragraph shall be communicated to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the Committee referred to in Article 11(1) within one month of their adoption.

5.

On duly justified imperative grounds of urgency relating to the need for a swift response from the Community to mitigate consequences of a nuclear or radiological accident, the Commission shall adopt or amend the action programmes or measures by means of immediately applicable implementing acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 11(3).

6.

The Commission may decide to join any initiative launched by international organisations and major donors pursuing similar objectives as far as that initiative complies with the general objective set out in Article 1. The corresponding financing decision shall be taken in accordance with the procedure referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article.