[{"bbox": [141, 153, 1133, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "envisaged and employed and of the budget details for the action. The final report, narrative and financial, will\ncover the entire period of the action implementation."}, {"bbox": [141, 212, 1133, 293], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission may undertake additional project monitoring visits both through its own staff and through independent consultants recruited directly by the Commission for independent monitoring reviews (or recruited by the responsible agent contracted by the Commission for implementing such reviews)."}, {"bbox": [141, 298, 1126, 376], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring: The Commission will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on indicators of the logframe matrix, including the collection of baselines and data collection."}, {"bbox": [130, 392, 308, 420], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [141, 438, 1040, 492], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the nature of the action, an evaluation will not be carried out for this action or its\ncomponents."}, {"bbox": [130, 506, 446, 534], "category": "Section-header", "text": "5.3 Audit and Verifications"}, {"bbox": [141, 552, 1128, 632], "category": "Text", "text": "Without prejudice to the obligations applicable to contracts concluded for the implementation of this action,\nthe Commission may, on the basis of a risk assessment, contract independent audit or verification\nassignments for one or several contracts or agreements."}, {"bbox": [130, 659, 1067, 693], "category": "Section-header", "text": "6 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY"}, {"bbox": [141, 726, 1082, 780], "category": "Text", "text": "The 2021-2027 programming cycle will adopt a new approach to pooling, programming and deploying\nstrategic communication and public diplomacy resources."}, {"bbox": [141, 805, 1111, 965], "category": "Text", "text": "It will remain a contractual obligation for all entities implementing EU-funded external actions to inform\nthe relevant audiences of the Union's support for their work by displaying the EU emblem and a short\nfunding statement as appropriate on all communication materials related to the actions concerned. This\nobligation will continue to apply equally, regardless of whether the actions concerned are implemented by\nthe Commission, partner countries, service providers, grant beneficiaries or entrusted or delegated entities\nsuch as UN agencies, international financial institutions and agencies of EU member states."}, {"bbox": [141, 990, 1122, 1122], "category": "Text", "text": "However, action documents for specific sector programmes are in principle no longer required to include a\nprovision for communication and visibility actions promoting the programmes concerned. These resources\nwill instead-be consolidated in Cooperation Facilities established by support measure action documents,\nallowing Delegations to plan and execute multiannual strategic communication and public diplomacy\nactions with sufficient critical mass to be effective on a national scale."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 12 of 13"}]