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EU external aid

EU external aid is given by means either of contracts to provide services, supplies or works to beneficiary countries or of grants (generally for projects proposed by non-profit making organisations). This aid is usually provided under one of the EC external aid programmes and instruments:

• PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD for the candidate countries

• Tacis for the New Independent States and Mongolia

• Cards for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the FYROM (Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia)

• ALA for Asian and Latin American countries

• MEDA ll for the Mediterranean partners

• EDF for the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

Aid is also available under specific budget headings, such as for South Africa.

Further details of all these programmes can be found here on the Europa website.

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