[{"bbox": [109, 162, 733, 194], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS"}, {"bbox": [109, 227, 406, 258], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Financing Agreement"}, {"bbox": [120, 280, 1037, 333], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to implement this action, it is envisaged to conclude a financing agreement with the partner country."}, {"bbox": [109, 354, 534, 384], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Indicative Implementation Period"}, {"bbox": [120, 406, 1110, 487], "category": "Text", "text": "The indicative operational implementation period of this action, during which the activities described in section 3 will be carried out and the corresponding contracts and agreements implemented, is 60 months from the date of entry into force of the financing agreement."}, {"bbox": [120, 498, 1110, 552], "category": "Text", "text": "Extensions of the implementation period may be agreed by the Commission's responsible authorising officer by amending this Financing Decision and the relevant contracts and agreements."}, {"bbox": [109, 573, 720, 604], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Implementation of the Budget Support Component"}, {"bbox": [120, 619, 164, 642], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [109, 693, 466, 723], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [120, 751, 1110, 829], "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 measures⁶."}, {"bbox": [109, 858, 451, 885], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.1 Direct Management (Grants)"}, {"bbox": [120, 901, 409, 928], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [120, 940, 379, 967], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [120, 978, 1110, 1032], "category": "Text", "text": "The purpose of the grant will be to enhance Uganda's capacity to comply with SPS requirements for agriculture to improve customers health and increase horticulture exports to Europe (Specific Objective 1)."}, {"bbox": [120, 1058, 425, 1086], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Type of applicants targeted**"}, {"bbox": [120, 1097, 1110, 1177], "category": "Text", "text": "The grant will be awarded to an organization or consortium of organizations with experience working in the SPS sector in Uganda with both public and private stakeholders and with experience in working with the EU procedures."}, {"bbox": [109, 1231, 639, 1259], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.2 Indirect Management with a pillar assessed entity"}, {"bbox": [120, 1286, 1110, 1472], "category": "Text", "text": "A part of this action may be implemented in indirect management with an entity, which will be selected by the Commission's services using the following criteria: its specific expertise in implementing actions on business and human rights, the existing focus of the entity on issues directly or interively related to business and human rights, labour issues, natural resource governance etc; their in-house operational capacity to implement the business and human rights component; existing connections and relationships with the Goverment of Uganda, business community and civil society organisations; ability to implement transparently and an absence of conflict of interest."}, {"bbox": [109, 1540, 1121, 1615], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶ 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": [1003, 1680, 1121, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 27 of 32"}]