Grants to Support Law Enforcement and Security Reforms in Armenia

Deadline: 4-Sep-22

The European Commission (EC) is calling for proposals to Support to law enforcement and security reforms in Armenia.

Objectives

• The global objective of this call for proposals is to support Armenia in its Law Enforcement and Security reforms in line with priorities as identified by the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and EU’s best practices
• The specific objectives of this call for proposals are:
  • To support establishment and proper functioning of the new Ministry of Interior
  • To support implementing the Police reform deriving from the 2020-2022 Police Reforms Strategy
  • To support drafting full package of the follow-up new Strategy for the Police Reforms
  • To support modernization of Migration, Passport and Border Management services
  • To support putting in place relevant reporting, statistical and IT mechanisms in the framework of Law Enforcement and Security reforms

Funding Information

• The overall indicative amount made available under this call for proposals is EUR 2 000 000.
• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:
  • minimum amount: EUR 2 000 000
  • maximum amount: EUR 2 000 000

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead applicant(s) 
  • In order to be eligible for a grant, the lead applicant must:
    • be a legal person
    • be non-profit-making
    • be a specific type of organisation such as: a competent Government Department, Public body, or relevant mandated body of a Government Department or public body authority of a European Union Member State in the fields related to this action
    • be established in a Member State of the European Union
    • be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the coapplicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary.
• 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 himself.
  • In addition, co-applicant(s) must be established in a different Member State than the lead applicant ; besides, if more than one co-applicant, each co-applicant must be established in a different Member State as well.
  • Co-applicants must sign the mandate.
  • If awarded the grant contract, the co-applicant(s) (if any) will become beneficiary(ies) in the action (together with the coordinator).
• 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 coapplicant(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 an applicant may hence be:
        • Entities directly or indirectly controlled by the applicant (daughter companies or first-tier subsidiaries). They may also be entities controlled by an entity controlled by the 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.

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