CHAPTER II U.K. ACTIONS UNDER THE EU AID VOLUNTEERS INITIATIVE

Article 9 U.K. Standards and procedures regarding candidate volunteers and EU Aid Volunteers

1. Building on existing relevant practices, the Commission shall establish standards and procedures covering the necessary conditions, arrangements and requirements to be applied by sending and hosting organisations when identifying, selecting, preparing, managing and deploying candidate volunteers and EU Aid Volunteers to support humanitarian aid operations in third countries.

2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 24 to set out standards concerning:

• a competence framework used for the identification, selection and preparation of volunteers as junior or senior professionals;

• provisions to ensure equal opportunities and non-discrimination in the identification and selection process;

• provisions to ensure compliance of sending and hosting organisations with relevant national and Union law and law of the hosting country;

• standards governing the partnerships between sending and hosting organisations;

• provisions for recognition of the skills and competences acquired by EU Aid Volunteers in line with existing relevant Union initiatives.

3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt implementing acts to set out the following:

• the procedures to be followed for the identification, selection and necessary pre-deployment preparation of candidate volunteers, including apprenticeship placements, where relevant;

• provisions for the deployment and management of EU Aid Volunteers in third countries, including, inter alia, supervision in the field, continued support through coaching, mentoring, additional training, necessary working conditions, post deployment support;

• the provision of insurance coverage and living conditions of volunteers including the coverage of subsistence, accommodation, travel and other relevant expenses;

• procedures to be followed before, during and after deployment to ensure duty of care and appropriate safety and security measures, including medical-evacuation protocols and security plans that cover emergency evacuation from third countries, including the necessary procedures for liaison with national authorities;

• procedures for monitoring and assessing the individual performance of EU Aid Volunteers.

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 26(2).