The European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) and Moldova

The European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) is the Financial Instrument under which EC assistance to Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus and South Mediterranean countries is provided since 1st January 2007. It replaces the MEDA and TACIS instruments.

ENPI applies to the EU's immediate neighbours by land or sea: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine. Relations between EU and Russia are defined as a Strategic Partnership covering four “common spaces”.

A total of over EUR 11.1 billion under the EU's 2007-13 financial framework will be provided from the Community budget for ENPI implementation.

EC assistance under ENPI will be implemented through different types of programmes:

* National programmes for each partner country
* Three Regional programmes: one for the East, one for the South and one trans-regional for both East and South.
* Fifteen Cross-border Cooperation programmes.
* Five thematic programmes. They are common to neighbouring countries and development countries (ACP, ALA..)

EC assistance priorities under ENPI are identified in:

* General Strategy Papers covering the period 2007-2013, e.g Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) or Regional Strategy Papers (RSPs)
* More detailed Indicative Programmes which cover 2007-2009 and 2010-2013, e.g. National Indicative Programmes (NIP) and Regional indicative Programmes (RIP)
* Detailed Annual Action Programmes (AAP) for each year of the programming period.

Moldova - Programming 2007-2013

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