[{"bbox": [129, 163, 754, 196], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS"}, {"bbox": [129, 228, 428, 259], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Financing Agreement"}, {"bbox": [141, 274, 1133, 328], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to implement this action, it is not envisaged to conclude a financing agreement with the Republic of Uganda."}, {"bbox": [129, 367, 556, 398], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Indicative Implementation Period"}, {"bbox": [141, 413, 1093, 493], "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 48 months from the date of adoption by the Commission of this Financing Decision."}, {"bbox": [141, 519, 1073, 574], "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": [129, 613, 743, 644], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Implementation of the Budget Support Component"}, {"bbox": [141, 658, 184, 682], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [129, 733, 486, 764], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [141, 791, 1110, 870], "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 measures¹²."}, {"bbox": [129, 897, 562, 925], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.1 Direct Management (Twinning grants)"}, {"bbox": [141, 940, 429, 967], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [141, 992, 402, 1019], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [141, 1020, 1135, 1099], "category": "Text", "text": "The purpose of the grant will be to strengthen accountability and governance institutions to better deliver on their mandates. (Output 1) through a **twinning** arrangement on anticorruption and performance audits with Office of the Auditor General and possibly other governance/accountability institutions."}, {"bbox": [141, 1125, 446, 1152], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(b) Type of applicants targeted**"}, {"bbox": [141, 1165, 971, 1191], "category": "Text", "text": "The twinning grant will target EU Member State administrations or their mandated bodies."}, {"bbox": [141, 1246, 1135, 1350], "category": "Text", "text": "The part of the action under the budgetary envelope reserved for grants may, partially or totally and including where an entity is designated for receiving a grant without a call for proposals be implemented in indirect management with an entity, which will be selected by the Commission's services using the criteria defined in section 4.4.3. below."}, {"bbox": [129, 1366, 473, 1393], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.2 Direct Management (Grants)"}, {"bbox": [141, 1408, 429, 1435], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Grants: (direct management)**"}, {"bbox": [141, 1461, 402, 1488], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**(a) Purpose of the grant(s)**"}, {"bbox": [141, 1488, 1128, 1541], "category": "Text", "text": "The purpose of the grant will be to strengthen the capacity of the Parliament of Uganda to deliver on its strategic plan through capacity building for MPs and staff and support to relevant committees of Parliament"}, {"bbox": [129, 1572, 1144, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹² 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": [1027, 1681, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 21 of 25"}]