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titleCoordinator Contact / CoCo

Term: Coordinator Contact

Acronym: CoCo

Definition:

Additional coordinator contact within an economic operator's organisation. This role is given per procedure. The CoCo is involved in the exchange of information between the                 Consortium or their organisation (as sole tenderer) and the contracting authority, for a particular submission or invitation related to a call for tenders. See details here.

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titleComitology

Term: Comitology

Acronym: 

Definition:

Formal consultation about the content of the Commission Decision (AP or else) is organised by the DG in charge with the relevant EU MS committee (the committee is defined in the Basic Act)

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titleCommission Financing Decision / CFD

Term: Commission Financing Decision

Acronym: CFD

Definition:

The Commission Financing Decision (CFD) is used as a generic term to cover the various types of documents that express the Commission's exercise of its implementing competencies: (1) the exercise of its implementing powers ("mode décisionnelle"); and (2) its responsibility for budget implementation ("mode ordonnateur").

Within the context of OPSYS, a Commission Decision that includes a Financing Decision will be called a Commission Financing Decision.

In the framework of external action, a Commission Financing Decision can take various forms:

  • An Annual Action Programme;
  • A Multi-annual Action Programme;
  • A National or Country Action Programme;
  • A Multi-country Action Programme;
  • A CBC Action Programme;
  • A Complementary Financing Decision;
  • An Individual Measure;
  • A Special Measure;
  • A Support Measure;
  • An Exceptional Assistance Measure;
  • An Interim Response Programme;
  • A Pilot Project;
  • A Preparatory Action;
  • A Preparatory Measure;
  • A One-off Action;
  • A Commission Decision implementing a CFSP Council Decision;
  • A Decision under the Commission's administrative autonomy.

A Commission Financing Decision can contain one or several Actions.

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titleCommission Implementing Decision / CID

Term: Commission Implementing Decision

Acronym: CiD

Definition:

Commission (Implementing) Decisions are legal acts by which the College of Commissioners adopts strategy, programming and action documents and their proposed implementation. CiDs provide further details on the policy objectives of their corresponding Basic Act and proposes how to achieve them.

At the level of Actions, Action Programmes, Individual, Special or Support Measures or the Joint Operational Programmes at the end of the identification and formulation phase, CiDs adopt the Annual Action Programmes, Measures, etc., together with their related Financing Decision in a single decision. CiDs also adopt Programming Documents, in that case without a Financing Decision

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titleComitologyCommon Relex Information System / CRIS

Term: ComitologyCommon Relex Information System

Acronym:  CRIS

Definition:Formal consultation about the content of the Commission Decision (AP or else) is organised by the DG in charge with the relevant EU MS committee (the committee is defined in the Basic Act)

INTPA's local information system for external actions specifically developed by DG INTPA containing both operational and financial information on external aid projects and programmes implemented by DG INTPA.

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titleContract

Term: Contract

Acronym: 

Definition:

A Contract is an agreement, between two or more persons or entities, with specific terms and an undertaking to provide services, supplies and/or works in return for a financial consideration.

Contracts are key entities in the implementation phase of the Cycle of Operation.

There are many different types of Contracts for External actions.

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