Artikel I

1. The aim of this Agreement shall be to promote technical cooperation on a grant basis and to create to that effect the legal and administrative framework for technical cooperation programmes and projects upon which the competent authorities of the two Parties may decide for the purpose of implementing the Agreement.
2. A decision to cooperate as referred to in paragraph 1 above, the contribution to a program or a project and the manner in which that programme or project is to be implemented shall in each case be the subject of a separate arrangement to be drawn up by the competent authorities, in accordance with the principles embodied in this Agreement.