project preparation facility | PPF [Abbr.]

project preparation facility | PPF

Project Preparation Facility

Special Project Preparation Facility

SDA Project Facility | Social Dimensions of Adjustment Project Facility

social dimensions of adjustment project facility | SDA project facility

14. Recalls that Union blending should in no circumstances constitute an excuse for diminishing ODA; welcomes the participation of the Parliament in the EU Platform for Blending in External Cooperation (EUBEC) to provide recommendations and guidance with a view to further increase the effectiveness of aid delivered by the Union through blending operations in line with the internationally agreed objectives of the aid effectiveness agenda, particularly the key principles of ownership, alignment, harmonisation and mutual accountability; in particular, recommends, in a context where blending provides an opportunity to support the activitie ...[+++]s of big Union corporations operating abroad (thereby departing from development objectives), that Parliament should be duly informed on the project proposals financed by the blending facilities before decisions are taken by the operational boards; recalls that projects financed through blending should truly contribute to poverty reduction and respect development effectiveness principles; calls on the Commission to use blending only where its added value is demonstrated as highlighted by the Court;

(5) ‘programme support actions’ means all accompanying measures necessary for the implementation of the Connecting Europe Facility and individual sector-specific guidelines, such as services (notably technical and financial engineering assistance), as well as preparatory, feasibility, coordination, monitoring, consultation of interested parties, control, audit and evaluation activities, which are required in order to facilitate the preparation of projects of common interest notably in Cohesion countries with a view to obtaining financing under this Regulati ...[+++]on or on the financial market, or directly for the management of the facility hereby established and the achievement of its objectives.

Coordination on the priorities articulated by Africa (Short Term Action Plan – STAP and the NEPAD Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility — NEPAD-IPPF, 2003) could also be enhanced within the framework provided by the EU-Africa Partnership on Infrastructure.

22. Reaffirms its support for the environmental dimension of the UfM and stresses the importance of the Euro-Mediterranean initiative for the de-pollution of the Mediterranean; welcomes, in this regard, the launch of the second phase of the Mediterranean Hot-Spot Investment Programme - Project Preparation and Implementation Facility (MeHSIP PPIF); considers that progress in the specific area of prevention of sea pollution is a matter of urgency and that particular attention should be paid to the Mediterranean, given that it is an enclosed sea; points out that all UfM projects ...[+++] should be planned and carried out in cooperation with existing programmes with regard, in particular, to the UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan for the Barcelona Convention;