Common use of Joint Monitoring Committee Clause in Contracts

Joint Monitoring Committee. Within three months after the first Financing Agreement relating to the programme enters into force, a Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) shall be established in accordance with Article 142 of the IPA Implementing Regulation. The JMC is the cross-border programme’s decision making body. JMC is composed of representatives at national, regional and local level of the beneficiaries, including representatives of the Operating Structures and of stakeholders in the programme area. The European Commission (EC) representatives shall participate in the work of the JMC in an advisory capacity. The JMC shall meet at least twice per year at the initiative of the beneficiaries or of the European Commission and is chaired by a representative of Kosovo or the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on a rotating basis. At its first meeting, the JMC shall draw up its rules of procedure, and adopt them in order to exercise its missions pursuant to the IPA IR. - It oversees the programming and effective implementation of the programme; - It shall consider and approve the criteria for selecting the operations financed by the cross–border programme and approve any revision of those criteria in accordance with programming needs; - It shall periodically review progress made towards achieving the specific targets of the Programme on the basis of documents submitted by the Operating structures; - It shall examine the results of implementation, particularly achievement of the targets set for each priority axis and the evaluations referred to in Article 57(4) and Article 141 of IPA IR; - It shall examine the annual and final implementation reports prior to their submission, by the OSs, to the respective IPA Coordinators and to the European Commission (Article 144 of IPA IR); - It shall be responsible for selecting operations. To this aim, as appropriate (and on a case–by–case basis), it may delegate this function to a Steering Committee (to perform the role of an evaluation committee) whose members should be designated by the OSs. The composition of the Steering Committee shall be endorsed by the European Commission - It may propose any revision or examination of the cross-border programme likely to make possible the attainment of the objectives referred to in Article 86(2) of IPA IR or to improve its management, including its financial management; - It shall consider and approve any proposal to amend the content of the cross-border programme; - It shall approve the framework for the JTS’ tasks.

Joint Monitoring Committee. Within three months after the first Financing Agreement relating to the programme enters into force, a Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) shall be established in accordance with Article 142 of the IPA Implementing Regulation. The JMC is the cross-border programme’s decision making body. JMC is composed of representatives at national, regional and local level of the beneficiaries, including representatives of the Operating Structures and of stakeholders in the programme area. The European Commission (EC) representatives shall participate in the work of the JMC in an advisory capacity. The JMC shall meet at least twice per year at the initiative of the beneficiaries or of the European Commission and is chaired by a representative of Kosovo or the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on a rotating basis. At its first meeting, the JMC shall draw up its rules of procedure, and adopt them in order to exercise its missions pursuant to the IPA IR. - It oversees the programming and effective implementation of the programme; - It shall consider and approve the criteria for selecting the operations financed by the cross–border programme and approve any revision of those criteria in accordance with programming needs; - It shall periodically review progress made towards achieving the specific targets of the Programme on the basis of documents submitted by the Operating structures; - It shall examine the results of implementation, particularly achievement of the targets set for each priority axis and the evaluations referred to in Article 57(4) and Article 141 of IPA IR; - It shall examine the annual and final implementation reports prior to their submission, by the OSs, to the respective IPA Coordinators and to the European Commission EC (Article 144 of IPA IR); - It shall be responsible for selecting operations. To this aim, as appropriate (and on a case–by–case basis), it may delegate this function to a Steering Committee (to perform the role of an evaluation committee) whose members should be designated by the OSs. The composition of the Steering Committee shall be endorsed by the European Commission EC - It may propose any revision or examination of the cross-border programme likely to make possible the attainment of the objectives referred to in Article 86(2) of IPA IR or to improve its management, including its financial management; - It shall consider and approve any proposal to amend the content of the cross-border programme; - It shall approve the framework for the JTS’ ’s tasks.