Article 75

For the purposes of this Part, the following definitions shall apply: ‘programmable aid’ means the non-repayable aid under the European Development Fund allocated to the OCTs in order to finance territorial or regional strategies and priorities set out in programming documents; ‘programming’ means the process of organisation, decision-making and allocation of indicative financial resources intended to implement, on a multi-annual basis, in an area referred to in Part Two of this Decision, the action to achieve the association’s objectives for the sustainable development of the OCTs; ‘programming document’ means the document which sets out the OCTs’s strategy, priorities and arrangements and translates the objectives and targets of the OCTs for its sustainable development in an effective and efficient way to pursue the objectives of the association; ‘development plans’ referred to in Article 83 means a coherent set of operations defined and financed exclusively by the OCTs in the framework of their own policies and strategies of development, and those agreed upon between an OCTs and the Member State to which it is linked; ‘territorial allocation’ means the amount allocated to individual OCTs for the programmable aid under the European Development Fund in order to finance territorial strategies and priorities set out in programming documents; ‘regional allocation’ means the amount allocated for the programmable aid under the European Development Fund in order to finance regional cooperation strategies or thematic priorities common to several OCTs and set out in programming documents; ‘financing decision’ means the act adopted by the Commission specifying the details of the Union’s financial contribution and authorizing to grant financial aid from the European Development Fund.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.