PART TWOCOMMON PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SUPPORT FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

TITLE IIIPROGRAMMING

CHAPTER IGeneral provisions on the ESI Funds

Article 27Content of programmes

1.

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Each programme shall include arrangements to ensure effective, efficient and coordinated implementation of F2support for rural development and actions to achieve a reduction of the administrative burden on beneficiaries.

2.

Each programme shall define priorities setting out specific objectives, financial appropriations of support F3for rural development and corresponding national co-financing F4... which may be public or private in accordance with the Fund-specific rules.

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4.

Each priority shall set out indicators and corresponding targets expressed in qualitative or quantitative terms, in accordance with the Fund-specific rules, in order to assess progress in programme implementation aimed at achievement of objectives as the basis for monitoring, evaluation and review of performance. Those indicators shall include:

(a)

financial indicators relating to expenditure allocated;

(b)

output indicators relating to the operations supported;

(c)

result indicators relating to the priority concerned.

F6The Fund-specific rules shall set out common indicators and may set out provisions related to programme-specific indicators.

5.

Each programme, except those which cover exclusively technical assistance, shall include a description, in accordance with the Fund-specific rules, of the actions to take into account the principles set out in Articles 5, 7 and 8.

6.

Each programme, except those where technical assistance is undertaken under a specific programme, shall set out the indicative amount of support to be used for climate change objectives, based on the methodology referred to in Article 8.

7.

F7The authority with responsibility for preparing the programme shall draft the programme in accordance with the Fund-specific rules.