[{"bbox": [109, 120, 450, 150], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4. Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [83, 177, 1145, 255], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission will ensure that the EU appropriate rules and procedures for providing financing to third parties are respected, including review procedures, where appropriate, and compliance of the action with EU restrictive measures³¹."}, {"bbox": [146, 278, 607, 307], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.1. Direct Management (Twinning grants)"}, {"bbox": [83, 318, 465, 344], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Twinning grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [83, 345, 342, 371], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [83, 371, 1144, 423], "category": "Text", "text": "The purpose of grant(s), that will be twinning grant(s), will be to support e-Government reform and connectivity. Specifically, the grant will provide:"}, {"bbox": [83, 424, 889, 450], "category": "Text", "text": "- Complementary support to budget support operation (specific objectives (SO) 1 and 2)"}, {"bbox": [83, 450, 1144, 530], "category": "Text", "text": "- Digital trade support, including technical cooperation in the domains of e-government, connectivity, e-gender digital divide/gap, coordination with existing and upcoming initiatives by the Government and other DPs. (Specific Objective 3)"}, {"bbox": [83, 556, 386, 583], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Type of applicants targeted**"}, {"bbox": [83, 583, 815, 608], "category": "Text", "text": "Applicants must be EU Member State administrations or their mandated bodies."}, {"bbox": [146, 619, 1075, 648], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.2. Indirect Management with a Member State Organization or international organisation"}, {"bbox": [83, 657, 1145, 709], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this action may be implemented in indirect management with an entity, which will be selected by Commission's services using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [83, 737, 980, 763], "category": "Text", "text": "- Extensive experience working in Tanzania in the areas under the specific objectives in reference,"}, {"bbox": [83, 764, 646, 789], "category": "Text", "text": "- Complementarity of on-going similar activities in Tanzania,"}, {"bbox": [83, 790, 293, 815], "category": "Text", "text": "- Operational capacity."}, {"bbox": [83, 842, 1039, 868], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementation entails support to improved connectivity and enhanced digital trade (SO2 and SO3)."}, {"bbox": [146, 879, 742, 908], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.3. EFSD+ operations covered by budgetary guarantees"}, {"bbox": [83, 930, 1145, 1012], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this action may be implemented through budgetary guarantees under indirect management. The budgetary guarantees would fall within the following priority area: Human Capital and Employment (sectors 110 and 321)"}, {"bbox": [83, 1026, 1145, 1113], "category": "Text", "text": "This section 4.4.3 is included for information purposes only. A comprehensive action plan covering all EFSD+ budgetary guarantees and the financing decision for the entire annual commitment under the EFSD+ budget line are adopted separately."}, {"bbox": [83, 1126, 1145, 1209], "category": "Text", "text": "Financing and investment operations supported by budgetary guarantees may be implemented under indirect management with the entities, called Lead Finance Institutions, identified in the appendix to this Action Document."}, {"bbox": [146, 1222, 1158, 1279], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.4. Changes from indirect to direct management mode (and vice versa) due to exceptional circumstances (one alternative second option)"}, {"bbox": [83, 1289, 126, 1311], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [109, 1334, 807, 1364], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [83, 1390, 1145, 1470], "category": "Text", "text": "The geographical eligibility in terms of place of establishment for participating in procurement and grant award procedures and in terms of origin of supplies purchased as established in the basic act and set out in the relevant contractual documents shall apply, subject to the following provisions."}, {"bbox": [83, 1483, 1145, 1534], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission's authorising officer responsible may extend the geographical eligibility on the basis of urgency or of unavailability of services in the markets of the countries or territories concerned, or in other duly substantiated"}, {"bbox": [71, 1594, 1158, 1661], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³¹ www.sanctionsmap.eu. Please note that the sanctions map is an IT tool for identifying the sanctions regimes. The source of the sanctions stems from legal acts published in the Official Journal (OJ). In case of discrepancy between the published legal acts and the updates on the website it is the OJ version that prevails."}, {"bbox": [1040, 1662, 1158, 1685], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 19 of 24"}]