NDICI – European Union Police Assistance for Bosnia and Herzegovina – 2023

Objectives

• To enhance the effectiveness of institutions involved in the fight against transnational organised crime, corruption, drugs, money laundering, cybercrime, trafficking of human beings, terrorism, radicalisation, violent extremism, corruption and ensure better institutional interoperability
• To further improve the collection and data exchange, and data protection according to the EU applicable standards and best practices
• To improve governance standards, to embed stability and progress towards EU membership, better identify and respond to threats, and strengthen capacities to prevent and fight crimes

Priorities

• Priority 1: to build compatible crime fighting infrastructure at all levels, in order to foster effective cooperation in criminal matters across the BiH jurisdictions
• Priority 2: enhance capacity of LEAs to effectively prevent and fight transnational organised crime, corruption, terrorism, money laundering, drugs, cybercrime, radicalisation and violent extremism in BiH
• Priority 3: promote better use of Special Investigative Measures (SIMs) in line with EU best practices and standards as well as joint investigation teams
• Priority 4: enhance effective internal and international coordination, cooperation and information exchange
• Priority 5: provide effective legal and investigative tools to Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and prosecutors to timely investigate, prosecute and sanction severe crime and to utilize proactive investigations
• Priority 6: support the LEAs to develop and implement human rights based approaches to policing, in full compliance with EU standards

Among financed actions

• Actions fighting against transnational organized crime
• Actions fighting against corruption
• Actions fighting against terrorism, money laundering, prevention of radicalisation and violent extremism
• Actions fighting against corruption prevention within the LEAs

Additional informations

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
• Initial duraction of the action: between 48 and 60 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a Public Body  of a Member State of the European Union or of the United Kingdom or their mandated bodies, entrusted with responsibilities related to the implementation of activities relevant to the call
• Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary

• Total budget of the call: 10 million euro
• Amount of the grant: maximum 10 million euro
• Co-financing rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs