Council Regulation (EC) No 617/2007Show full title

TITLE I GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Article 1 General framework for programming and implementation

1. The primary and overarching objective of cooperation under this Regulation shall be the eradication of poverty in partner countries and regions in the context of sustainable development, including pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals.

2. Geographic cooperation with the ACP countries and regions in the context of the 10th EDF shall be founded on the basic principles and values reflected in the general provisions of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement and taking into account the development objectives and cooperation strategies set out in Title XX of the Treaty.

The Joint Development Policy Statement of 22 December 2005: ‘The European Consensus’ shall provide the general framework to guide the programming and implementation of the 10th EDF, including the principles set out in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.

3. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness includes the principles of ownership, alignment, harmonisation, results oriented aid management and mutual accountability, valid for partner countries and regions as well as for donors.

Those principles shall create the conditions for the partner countries and regions to exercise effective leadership over their development policies and strategies and lead to a country or region-based and country or region-led approach, involving broad stakeholder consultation and increasingly aligning with national or regional development objectives and strategies, particularly those for reducing poverty. This requires effective donor coordination, based on a search for complementarity, a non-exclusive approach and the promotion of donor-wide initiatives, aligned with and based on existing analyses, processes and strategies and country or region specific procedures and institutions.

4. Without prejudice to the need to ensure continuity of cooperation from crisis to stable conditions for development, measures covered by, and eligible for funding under Regulation (EC) No 1257/96 shall, in principle, not be funded under this Regulation.