Article 16 Starting phase of the programme
United Kingdom
Under shared management, the programme shall start in the participating Member States upon receipt of the notification referred to in Article 25(4) by which the Commission informs that it does not intend to request the documents referred to in that Article or that it does not have any observation. The participating countries may launch the preparatory actions required to set up the management and control systems earlier. The related costs shall be eligible in accordance with Article 36.
Under indirect management referred to in Articles 80 and 82, the programme shall start in the participating Member States after the entry into force of the agreement entrusting budget implementation tasks to an international organisation or to a CBC partner country.
In addition, the following further preparatory actions required to start the programme may be undertaken:
the establishment of the Managing Authority and, where relevant, of the Joint Technical Secretariat;
the first meetings of the Joint Monitoring Committee, including also representatives of CBC partner countries that have not yet signed a financing agreement or where the financing agreement has not yet entered into force;
the preparation and launching of project selection or contract award procedures with a suspension clause linked to the entry into force of the financing agreements.
Pending the entry into force of the respective financing agreements, only preparatory actions referred to in paragraphs 1 and 3 may be launched with the relevant CBC partner country.