[{"bbox": [129, 153, 501, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [140, 201, 1135, 288], "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 measures.⁴⁷"}, {"bbox": [129, 305, 529, 334], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.1 Direct Management (Procurement)"}, {"bbox": [140, 350, 1135, 470], "category": "Text", "text": "One or more short-term assignments providing technical assistance to the Government of Bonaire will be arranged as to provide complementary support to the limited institutional and human resource capacity of the local government on sanitation and wastewater treatment. This technical assistance will be implemented under direct management by the EU Delegation in Guyana, in close cooperation with the Government of Bonaire."}, {"bbox": [140, 502, 1135, 620], "category": "Text", "text": "The technical assistance will support Bonaire in improving its capacity for gender-sensitive sanitation, wastewater policy and management (including a gender analysis) and in assessing the potential use of InvestEU; in addition, the technical assistance may support activities such as specific EU visibility activities and other studies as determined."}, {"bbox": [140, 654, 1135, 715], "category": "Text", "text": "The technical assistance, which could also be completed from another decision if needed and justified, will also support Bonaire in the implementation of the budget support programme."}, {"bbox": [129, 728, 990, 757], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.4.2 Changes from direct to indirect management mode due to exceptional circumstances"}, {"bbox": [140, 773, 1135, 893], "category": "Text", "text": "In case that the general eligibility criteria of budget support are not met anymore or following the agreement of the Commission to a duly justified request from the beneficiary in the event of important challenges encountered in the implementation, the Action could be transformed to indirect management mode with a pillar-assessed entity in last resort."}, {"bbox": [140, 926, 1135, 1046], "category": "Text", "text": "In such cases this Action may be implemented in indirect management; the envisaged entity will be selected using the following criteria: 1) A strong field presence in the beneficiary OCT and Caribbean region and 2) A long-term experience in the field of sanitation and wastewater treatment and corresponding governance and with EU policies."}, {"bbox": [140, 1078, 1135, 1168], "category": "Text", "text": "In case the envisaged entity would need to be replaced, the Commission's services may select a replacement entity using the same criteria as above. If the entity is replaced, the decision to replace it needs to be duly justified."}, {"bbox": [129, 1185, 861, 1217], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.5. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [140, 1233, 1135, 1323], "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."}, {"bbox": [140, 1325, 1135, 1475], "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, which applies to OCTs according to the DOAG)."}, {"bbox": [129, 1572, 1145, 1648], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴⁷ EU Sanctions Map. 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, 1682, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 22 of 25"}]