Article IV - Effectiveness: Termination The Additional Conditions of Effectiveness consist of, namely, that the Project Operations Manual has been adopted by the Recipient pursuant to Section I.C.1 of Schedule 2 to this Agreement. During the period under review it was observed that the Recipient through the Ministry of Agriculture has prepared and adopted the Operational Manual and is executing the Project in accordance with the terms of the Operations Manual. Without prejudice to the provision of the General Conditions, the Effectiveness Deadline is the date ninety (90) days after the date of this Agreement, but in no case later than the date eighteen (18) months after the Association's approval of the Financing, which expires on December 4, 2015. It was observed that the Project date of effectiveness was on 25 November 2014 which did not exceed the expired date in the Financing Agreement and therefore, the requirement of this Article was fully met. For purpose of Section 8.05(b) of the General conditions, the date on which the obligations of the Recipient under the Agreement (other than those providing for payment obligations) shall terminate is twenty years after the date of this Agreement. 20