EU Call for Proposals: EU4Justice – Support to the Fight against Organised Crime and Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Deadline: 22 June 2018

The European Union (EU) is inviting proposals for its grant program “EU4Justice – Support to the Fight against Organised Crime and Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina” to enhance the effectiveness, integrity and professionalism of the institutions in the Rule of Law sector. It will help to improve the cooperation between prosecution and law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to increase the efficiency of investigations in organised crime and corruption cases.

Objectives

• Enhanced efficiency of the investigation and prosecution of organised crime and corruption cases (OC & C),
• Reinforcement of the integrity, human and performance management, and accountability of the justice sector institutions.

Program Components

1. Strengthening supervision and control in prosecutors’ offices
2. Strengthening capacities, resources and the independence of the Office of the Disciplinary Council (ODC)
3. Joint trainings  in an interdisciplinary fashion to better respond to organised crime, corruption and the most common forms of commercial crimes (privatisation of companies, tax evasion, tax fraud)
4. Improve current practice and results in forfeiting criminal assets
5. Tracking mechanism improving mutual access to criminal case files by law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices and courts
6. Project visibility
7. Project reporting

Funding Information

The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 2,200.000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person and
    • be non-profit-making and
    • be public institutions, authorities or administrations of the Member States of the European Union entrusted with responsibilities related to the implementation of activities relevant to the call and
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union and be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
  • Potential applicants may not participate in calls for proposals or be awarded grants if they are in any of the situations
• Co-applicant(s)
  • Co-applicants participate in designing and implementing the action, and the costs they incur are eligible in the same way as those incurred by the lead applicant.
  • Co-applicants must satisfy the eligibility criteria as applicable to the lead applicant.
  • If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s)(if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the Coordinator).
  • Nb: For British applicants: Please be aware that eligibility criteria must be complied with for the entire duration of the grant. If the United Kingdom withdraws from the EU during the grant period without concluding an agreement with the EU ensuring in particular that British applicants continue to be eligible, you will cease to receive EU funding (while continuing, where possible, to participate) or be required to leave the project on the basis of Article 12.2 of the General Conditions1 to the grant agreement.
• Affiliated entities
  • The lead applicant and its co-applicant(s) may act with affiliated entity(ies)
  • Only the following entities may be considered as affiliated entities to the lead applicant and/or to co-applicant(s):
    • Only entities having a structural link with the applicants (i.e. the lead applicant or a co-applicant), in particular a legal or capital link.
    • This structural link encompasses mainly two notions:
      • Control, as defined in Directive 2013/34/EU on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings:
      • Entities affiliated to applicant may hence be:
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by an applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by an applicant (granddaughter companies or second-tier subsidiaries) and the same applies to further tiers of control;
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlling the applicant (parent companies). Likewise, they may be entities controlling an entity controlling the applicant;
        • Entities under the same direct or indirect control as the applicant (sister companies).
    • Membership, i.e. the applicant is legally defined as a e.g. network, federation, association in which the proposed affiliated entities also participate or the applicant participates in the same entity (e.g. network, federation, association) as the proposed affiliated entities.

 How to Apply

• The application procedure consists of two phases:
  • Concept notes
  • Full applications
• The concept note together with the declaration by the lead applicant must be submitted online via given website.

For more information, please visit Europeaid and download the guidelines.