[{"bbox": [129, 163, 752, 196], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 4 IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS"}, {"bbox": [188, 228, 484, 259], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.1 Financing Agreement"}, {"bbox": [140, 274, 1087, 328], "category": "Text", "text": "In order to implement this action, it is not envisaged to conclude a financing agreement with the partner country."}, {"bbox": [188, 342, 611, 373], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.2 Indicative Implementation Period"}, {"bbox": [129, 391, 1143, 523], "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 60 months from the date of adoption by the Commission of this Financing Decision. 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": [188, 540, 542, 571], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.3 Implementation Modalities"}, {"bbox": [140, 599, 1129, 677], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission will ensure that the EU rules and procedures for providing financing to third parties are respected, including review procedures, where appropriate, and compliance of the action with EU restrictive measures¹⁸."}, {"bbox": [129, 705, 622, 732], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.1 Indirect Management with an entrusted entity"}, {"bbox": [140, 748, 1121, 800], "category": "Text", "text": "The action may be implemented in indirect management with an entrusted entity, which will be selected by the Commission's services using the following criteria:"}, {"bbox": [179, 801, 430, 827], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Presence in the country"}, {"bbox": [179, 828, 1146, 877], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Experience in the implementation of actions in the field of social protection and employment formalization"}, {"bbox": [179, 881, 1146, 934], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Long standing relation with national sectoral ministries and authorities involved in social protection, social inclusion and employment"}, {"bbox": [179, 935, 940, 961], "category": "List-item", "text": "- Capacity to mobilize a network of EU and Latin American high-quality experts"}, {"bbox": [140, 988, 1145, 1040], "category": "Text", "text": "The implementation by this entrusted entity entails carrying out the activities described in point 3.2 so that the three specific objectives of the action and related outcomes are achieved."}, {"bbox": [129, 1053, 1127, 1110], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 4.3.2 Changes from indirect to direct management mode (and vice versa) due to exceptional circumstances (one alternative second option)"}, {"bbox": [129, 1127, 1143, 1233], "category": "Text", "text": "If the implementation modalities originally foreseen under indirect management cannot be implemented due to circumstances outside of the Commission's control, the Commission reserves then the possibility to consider identifying alternative implementation modality in direct management through grants (international organizations, NGOs). The criteria to award the grants should include the criteria listed in point 4.3.1."}, {"bbox": [129, 1283, 857, 1314], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 4.4. Scope of geographical eligibility for procurement and grants"}, {"bbox": [140, 1342, 1131, 1422], "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, 1433, 1132, 1487], "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"}, {"bbox": [130, 1572, 1143, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁸ 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": [1023, 1680, 1143, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 26 of 29"}]