[{"bbox": [95, 119, 1132, 173], "category": "Text", "text": "The action includes **2 fixed tranches over 2 fiscal years**, with the possibility of adding tranches and extending the implementation timeframe should additional resources be available to top up the operation's budget."}, {"bbox": [95, 184, 1132, 240], "category": "Text", "text": "The overall amount of variable tranches is 60% of the total, so as to incentivise delivery against 12 agreed sector policy and reform targets, with EUR 1.2 million assigned to each. The total amount available each year is the same."}, {"bbox": [97, 274, 733, 387], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td></td><td>Year 1 (2024)</td><td>Year 2 (2025)</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Fixed tranche</td><td>4</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Variable tranche</td><td>6</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>10</td><td>10</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [95, 411, 583, 437], "category": "Text", "text": "The preliminary disbursement schedule is as follows:"}, {"bbox": [134, 439, 883, 465], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Year 1 disbursement in 2024 (n) based on eligibility assessment of 2023 (n-1)"}, {"bbox": [134, 467, 883, 493], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Year 2 disbursement in 2025 (n) based on eligibility assessment of 2024 (n-1)"}, {"bbox": [84, 535, 439, 566], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [95, 594, 1132, 672], "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 measures¹."}, {"bbox": [84, 701, 812, 732], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [95, 760, 1132, 841], "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": [95, 851, 1132, 958], "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 cases where application of the eligibility rules would make the realisation of this action impossible or exceedingly difficult (Article 28(10) NDICI-Global Europe Regulation)."}, {"bbox": [84, 985, 340, 1016], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5 Indicative Budget"}, {"bbox": [84, 1027, 1141, 1364], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Indicative Budget components</td><td>EU contribution (amount in EUR)</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Budget support - cf. section 4.3</td><td>20 000 000</td></tr><tr><td>Implementation modalities - cf. section 4.4</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Complementary modalities to budget support - implementation modalities cf. section 4.4.</td><td>N/A</td></tr><tr><td>Evaluation - cf. section 5.2</td><td rowspan=\"2\">may be covered by another Decision</td></tr><tr><td>Audit - cf. section 5.3</td></tr><tr><td>Totals</td><td>20 000 000</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [84, 1377, 606, 1408], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.6 Organisational Set-up and Responsibilities"}, {"bbox": [95, 1437, 1132, 1517], "category": "Text", "text": "Strategic oversight and direction setting will be ensured through the budget support Steering Committee (SC), of which the MoF, EU and Ministry of Education (for the sectoral component) will be part, as well as IFI representatives in an observer capacity. The SC will meet at least on a yearly basis."}, {"bbox": [84, 1571, 1141, 1645], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹ 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": [1026, 1680, 1141, 1704], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 23 of 26"}]