Article 5 · Council Regulation (EU) 2021/1173

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Article 5Union’s financial contribution#

1.The Union’s financial contribution to the Joint Undertaking, including EEA appropriations, shall be up to EUR 4122300000, including EUR 92000000 for administrative costs, provided that that amount is at least matched by the contribution of Participating States, distributed indicatively as follows:

(a)up to EUR 1660000000 from Horizon Europe, including EUR 160000000 for the implementation of quantum research and innovation activities as referred to in Article 4(1), point j, and in accordance with Article 34(1) and (2);

(b)up to EUR 2142300000 from the Digital Europe Programme; and

(c)up to EUR 320000000 from the Connecting Europe Facility.

Additional funds from Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe Programme and the Connecting Europe Facility may complement the Union contribution referred to in the first subparagraph, provided that the additional amounts are at least matched by the contribution of one or more members of the Joint Undertaking other than the Union. Such additional funds shall not be accounted for in the calculation of the Union maximum financial contribution.

2.The Union financial contribution referred to in paragraph 1 shall be paid from the appropriations in the general budget of the Union allocated to each relevant programme.

3.Additional funds from any Union programme other than Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe Programme and the Connecting Europe Facility, and which complement the contributions referred to in paragraph 1, first subparagraph, of this Article may be allocated to the Joint Undertaking to support its pillars of activities referred to in Article 4, except those referred to in Article 4(1), point (a). Such additional funds shall not be accounted for in the calculation of the Union maximum financial contribution.

4.Contributions from Union programmes corresponding to additional activities entrusted to the Joint Undertaking in accordance with paragraph 3 shall not be accounted for in the calculation of the Union maximum financial contribution.

4a.For contributions allocated to the Joint Undertaking in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 of this Article, Article 158 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council^note is applicable. Where such additional Union contributions relate to the pillar referred to in Article 4(1), point (i), one or more of the members other than the Union shall make additional contributions commensurate to the amount of the Union contributions.

5.Additional Union funds complementing the contribution referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may be allocated to the Joint Undertaking from third countries associated to Horizon Europe, the Digital Europe Programme or the Connecting Europe Facility in accordance with their respective association agreements. Those additional Union funds shall not affect the Participating States’ contribution referred to in Article 7(1), unless the Participating States agree otherwise.

6.The Union financial contribution referred to in paragraph 1(a) of this Article shall be used for the Joint Undertaking to provide financial support to indirect actions as defined in Article 2, point (43), of Regulation (EU) 2021/695, corresponding to the research and innovation activities of the Joint Undertaking.

7.The Union financial contribution referred to in paragraph 1(b) shall be used for capability building across the whole Union, including the acquisition, upgrade and operation of High Performance Computers, quantum computers or quantum simulators, the federation of the High Performance Computing and quantum computing service and data infrastructure and the widening of its use, and the development of advanced skills and training.

8.The Union financial contribution referred to in paragraph 1(c) shall be used for the interconnection of the High Performance Computing and data resources and the creation of an integrated pan-European hyper-connected High Performance Computing and data infrastructure.

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acceptance test
means a test conducted to determine if the requirements of the system specification are met by a EuroHPC supercomputer;
access time
means the computing time of a supercomputer that is made available to a user or a group of users to execute their computer programmes;
affiliated entity
means any legal entity as defined in Article 187(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046;
Centre of Excellence in High Performance Computing
means a collaborative project selected in an open and competitive call for proposals to promote the use of upcoming extreme performance computing capabilities enabling user communities in collaboration with other High Performance Computing stakeholders to scale up existing parallel codes towards exascale and extreme scaling performance;
co-design
means a collective approach between technology suppliers and users engaged in a collaborative and iterative design process for developing new technologies, applications and systems;
conflict of interest
means a situation involving a financial actor or other person as referred to in Article 61 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046;
consortium of private partners
means an association of Union legal entities coming together for the purpose of acquiring jointly with the Joint Undertaking an industrial-grade supercomputer;
constituent entity
means an entity that constitutes a Private Member of the Joint Undertaking, pursuant to the statutes of each Private Member;
EuroHPC supercomputer
means any computing system which is fully owned by the Joint Undertaking or co-owned with other Participating States or a consortium of private partners and which is a classical supercomputer (high-end supercomputer, industrial-grade supercomputer, AI-optimised supercomputer or mid-range supercomputer), a hybrid classical-quantum computer, a quantum computer or a quantum simulator;
exascale
means a performance level capable of executing ten to the power of eighteen operations per second (or 1 Exaflop);
high-end supercomputer
means a world-class computing system developed with the most advanced technology available at a given point in time and achieving at least exascale levels of performance or beyond (i.e. post-exascale) for applications addressing problems of greater complexity;
hosting consortium
means a group of Participating States or a consortium of private partners that have agreed to contribute to the acquisition and operation of a EuroHPC supercomputer, including any organisations representing these Participating States;
hosting entity
means a legal entity which includes facilities to host and operate a EuroHPC supercomputer and which is established in a Participating State that is a Member State;
hyper-connected
means a communication capability of transferring data at 10 to the power of twelve bits per second (1 Terabit per second) or beyond;
industrial-grade supercomputer
means at least a mid-range supercomputer specifically designed with security, confidentiality and data integrity requirements for industrial users that are more demanding than for a scientific use;
mid-range supercomputer
means a world-class supercomputer with at most one order of magnitude lower performance level than a high-end supercomputer;
multiannual strategic programme
means a document laying out a strategy for all the activities of the Joint Undertaking;
national High Performance Computing Competence Centre
means a legal entity, or a consortium of legal entities, established in a Participating State, associated with a national supercomputing centre of that Participating State, providing users from industry, including SMEs, academia, and public administrations with access on demand to the supercomputers and to the latest High Performance Computing technologies, tools, applications and services, and offering expertise, skills, training, networking and outreach;
National Quantum Competence Centre
means a legal entity, or a consortium of legal entities, established in a Participating State, providing users from industry, including SMEs, academia and research-performing organisations, and public administrations with access on demand to quantum technologies, tools, applications and services, as well as to national or European quantum infrastructures, and offering expertise, skills, training, networking and outreach;
observer State
means a country eligible to participate in the actions of the Joint Undertaking funded by Horizon Europe or the Digital Europe Programme that is not a Participating State;
Participating State
means a country that is a member of the Joint Undertaking;
performance level
means the number of floating point operations per second (flops) that a supercomputer can execute;
Private Member
means any member of the Joint Undertaking other than the Union or Participating States;
quantum computer
means a computing device that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve certain particular tasks using therefore fewer computational resources than classical computers;
quantum simulator
means a highly controllable quantum device that allows to obtain insights into properties of complex quantum systems or to solve specific computational problems inaccessible to classical computers;
Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
means the document covering the duration of Horizon Europe that identifies the key priorities and the essential technologies and innovations required to achieve the objectives of the Joint Undertaking;
supercomputing
means computing at performance levels requiring the massive integration of individual computing elements, including quantum components, for solving problems which cannot be handled by standard computing systems;
work programme
means the document referred to in Article 2, point (25), of Regulation (EU) 2021/695 or, where relevant, the document which also functions as the work programme referred to in Article 24 of Regulation (EU) 2021/694, or Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1153.