Part ONE, Title II, Chapter 2, Article 12 · Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085

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Article 12Management of contributions from the participating states#

1.Each participating state shall make an indicative commitment of the amount of their national financial contributions to the joint undertaking. Such commitment shall be made prior to the adoption of the work programme.In addition to criteria set out in Article 22 of the Horizon Europe Regulation or, in the case of the Chips Joint Undertaking, in Article 18 of Regulation (EU) 2021/694, the work programme may include, as an annex, eligibility criteria regarding national legal entities.Each participating state shall entrust the joint undertaking with the evaluation of the proposals according to the Horizon Europe Regulation and, where applicable, to Regulation (EU) 2021/694.The selection of proposals shall be based on the ranking list provided by the evaluation committee. The body responsible for selection may deviate from that list in duly justified cases as set out in the work programme to ensure the overall consistency of the portfolio approach.Each participating state shall have a right of veto on all issues concerning the use of its own national financial contributions to the joint undertaking for applicants established in those participating states, on the basis of national strategic priorities.

2.Each participating state shall conclude one or more administrative agreements with the joint undertaking laying down the coordination mechanism for the payment of and reporting on contributions to applicants established in that participating state. This agreement shall include the schedule, conditions of payment, reporting and audit requirements.Each participating state shall strive to synchronise its payment schedule, reporting and audits with those of the joint undertaking and to converge its cost eligibility rules with Horizon Europe’s rules.

3.In the agreement referred to in paragraph 2, each participating state may entrust the joint undertaking with the payment of its contribution to its beneficiaries. After the selection of proposals, the participating state shall commit the amount necessary for payments. The audit authorities of the participating state may audit the respective national contributions.

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additional activity
means an activity, included in the annual additional activities plan annexed to the main part of the work programme, that does not receive financial support from the joint undertaking but contributes to its objectives and is directly linked to the uptake of results from projects under that joint undertaking or its preceding initiatives or that has a significant Union added value;
architecture of the Digital European Sky
refers to the vision of the European ATM Master Plan, seeking to address the current inefficient airspace architecture in the medium to long term by combining airspace configuration and design with technologies to decouple service provision from local infrastructure and progressively increase the levels of collaboration and automation support;
associated member
means any legal entity established in a Member State, a country associated to Horizon Europe or, where applicable, associated to DEP, or an international organisation that accedes to a joint undertaking by signing a letter of commitment in accordance with Article 6(3) and subject to an approval in accordance with Article 7;
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;
constituent entities
means the entities that constitute a private member of a joint undertaking, where the private member is an association according to that member’s statutes;
contributing partner
means any country, international organisation or legal entity other than a member of a joint undertaking, or a constituent entity of a member or an affiliated entity of either, that supports the objectives of a joint undertaking in its specific area of research and whose application has been approved in accordance with Article 9;
Digital European Sky
refers to the vision of the European ATM Master Plan, seeking to transform Europe’s aviation infrastructure enabling it to handle the future growth and diversity of air traffic safely and efficiently, while minimising environmental impact;
founding member
means any legal entity established in a Member State, a country associated to Horizon Europe or, where applicable, associated with DEP, or an international organisation that is identified as a member of a joint undertaking in this Regulation or in one of its Annexes;
in-kind contributions to additional activities
means contributions by the private members, constituent entities or the affiliated entities of either, and by international organisations, consisting of the costs incurred by them in implementing additional activities less any contribution to those costs from the Union and from the participating states of that joint undertaking;
in-kind contributions to operational activities
means contributions by private members, constituent entities or the affiliated entities of either, by international organisations and by contributing partners, consisting of the eligible costs incurred by them in implementing indirect actions less the contribution of that joint undertaking and of the participating states of that joint undertaking to those costs;
member other than the Union
means any participating state, private member or international organisation that is a member of a joint undertaking;
newcomer
means an entity that is, for the first time, a beneficiary of a grant awarded by an individual joint undertaking or its preceding initiative and that is not a founding member of that joint undertaking or its preceding initiative.
participating state
means any Member State or country associated to Horizon Europe or, where applicable, associated to DEP upon notification of its participation in the activities of the relevant joint undertaking by means of a letter of commitment;
preceding initiative
means any partnership in one of the areas covered by a joint undertaking that received financial support from one of the previous Union framework programmes for research;
private member
means any legal entity established under public or private law that is a member of a joint undertaking other than the Union, participating states or international organisations;
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 a joint undertaking;
work programme
means the document referred to in Article 2, point (25), of the Horizon Europe Regulation;