Article 7

1. Non-governmental organizations eligible for Community financing for the implementation of operations under this Regulation must meet the following criteria: be non-profit-making autonomous organizations in a Member State of the Community under the laws in force in that Member State; have their main headquarters in a Member State of the Community or in the third countries in receipt of Community aid. This headquarters must be the effective decision-making centre for all operations financed under this Regulation. Exceptionally, the headquarters may be in a third donor country. 2. When determining a non-governmental organization's suitability for Community funding, account shall be taken of the following factors: its administrative and financial management capacities; its technical and logistical capacity in relation to the planned operation; its experience in the field of humanitarian aid; the results of previous operations carried out by the organization concerned, and in particular those financed by the Community; its readiness to take part, if need be, in the coordination system set up for a humanitarian operation; its ability and readiness to work with humanitarian agencies and the basic communities in the third countries concerned; its impartiality in the implementation of humanitarian aid; where appropriate, its previous experience in the third country involved in the humanitarian operation concerned.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.