[{"bbox": [85, 153, 571, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.3 Budget Support – NOT APPLICABLE"}, {"bbox": [85, 213, 442, 243], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.4 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [97, 271, 1134, 349], "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": [85, 389, 483, 416], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.4.1 Direct Management (Procurement)"}, {"bbox": [97, 444, 981, 472], "category": "Text", "text": "The programme will be implemented through direct management using procurement contract(s)."}, {"bbox": [97, 495, 1135, 577], "category": "Text", "text": "A call for tenders will be launched in the third quarter of 2023 under a suspensive clause prior to the adoption of this Decision. This is justified by the need of continuity in the communication efforts of the European Union in Myanmar."}, {"bbox": [85, 628, 803, 659], "category": "Section-header", "text": "4.5 Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [97, 686, 1135, 768], "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": [97, 791, 1135, 898], "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": [85, 1573, 1145, 1646], "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": [1027, 1655, 1144, 1679], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 17"}]