[{"bbox": [129, 153, 636, 191], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# Appendix 1 REPORTING IN OPSYS"}, {"bbox": [129, 216, 1125, 300], "category": "Text", "text": "A Primary Intervention¹⁰ (project/programme) is a coherent set of activities and results structured in a logical framework aiming at delivering development change or progress. Identifying the level of the primary intervention will allow for:"}, {"bbox": [129, 340, 1097, 397], "category": "Text", "text": "- Articulating Actions or Contracts according to an expected chain of results and therefore allowing them to ensure efficient monitoring and reporting of performance;"}, {"bbox": [129, 401, 1078, 458], "category": "Text", "text": "- Differentiating these Actions or Contracts from those that do not produce direct reportable development results, defined as support entities (i.e. audits, evaluations);"}, {"bbox": [129, 463, 936, 490], "category": "Text", "text": "- Having a complete and exhaustive mapping of all results-bearing Actions and Contracts."}, {"bbox": [129, 528, 1133, 585], "category": "Text", "text": "Primary Interventions are identified during the design of each action by the responsible service (Delegation or Headquarters operational Unit)."}, {"bbox": [129, 590, 1125, 644], "category": "Text", "text": "The level of the Primary Intervention chosen can be modified (directly in OPSYS) and the modification does not constitute an amendment of the action document."}, {"bbox": [129, 684, 993, 711], "category": "Text", "text": "The intervention level for the present Action identifies as (tick one of the 4 following options):"}, {"bbox": [129, 715, 1140, 1350], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><tr><td colspan=\"3\"><strong>Action level (i.e. Budget Support, blending)</strong></td></tr><tr><td>☐</td><td>Single action</td><td>Present action: all contracts in the present action</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\"><strong>Group of actions level (i.e. top-up cases, different phases of a single programme)</strong></td></tr><tr><td>☐</td><td>Group of actions</td><td>Actions reference (CRIS#/OPSYS#):</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\"><strong>Contract level</strong></td></tr><tr><td>☒</td><td>Single Contract 1</td><td>Contribution Agreement with entrusted entity</td></tr><tr><td>☒</td><td>Single Contract 2</td><td>Contribution Agreement with entrusted entity</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\"><strong>Group of contracts level (i.e. series of programme estimates, cases in which an Action includes for example four contracts and two of them, a technical assistance contract and a contribution agreement, aim at the same objectives and complement each other)</strong></td></tr><tr><td>☐</td><td>Group of contracts 1</td><td></td></tr></table>"}, {"bbox": [129, 1522, 1134, 1628], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁰ For the purpose of consistency between terms in OPSYS, DG INTPA, DG NEAR and FPI have harmonised 5 key terms, including ‘Action’ and ‘Intervention’ where an ‘Action’ is the content (or part of the content) of a Commission financing Decision and ‘Intervention’ is a coherent set of activities and results which constitutes an effective level for the operational follow-up by the EC of its operations on the ground. See more on the concept of intervention"}, {"bbox": [1026, 1681, 1141, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 26 of 26"}]