Translation of "opérations de cofinancement " (French → English) :

14. Calls for the members of civil society in the partner countries, particularly the social partners, to be closely involved in the drawing up, implementation and assessment of projects and for MEDA programmes to take a greater account of the sometimes limited financial capacity of non-governmental organisations, particularly local ones, when it comes to co-financing operations, and wishes to encourage the development of micro-projects; calls on the Commission to support the development of local NGOs and the partner states to respect the independence of these NGOs, to encourage them to be open to women and young people and to foster ge ...[+++]nuine transnational cooperation amongst them, together with greater flexibility by the Member States with regard to visa policy;

– the 1999 EC-UN framework agreement should be renegotiated with a view to changing to an approach oriented more directly towards co-financing operations, output-based budgeting, and upstream programme financing.

For its part, in a wider context, the Commission has, in the meantime, already achieved substantial progress by focussing, in co-financing operations, on the results of the operation as a whole, thus abandoning inputbased budgeting of the operations' budgets.

In the case of operations located outside the region to which the assistance relates but which do not fulfil the conditions of point 2, and of operations financed under the FIFG, the acceptance of the operation for co-financing shall be subject to prior approval by the Commission on a case-by-case basis following a request submitted by the Member State, taking into account in particular the proximity of the operation to the region, the level of benefit to the region which can be foreseen, and the amount of the expenditure in proportio ...[+++]n to the total expenditure under the measure and under the assistance.

In the case of operations financed by the FIFG or relating to the most remote regions, eligibility for part-financing is subject to the Commission's approval.

The tasks devolved on it would include coordination of measures with the Member States, the High Commissioner and other providers of funds, and greater visibility for the Community's financial effort in these measures and in cofinancing operations.