Part ONE, Title I, Article 3 · Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085

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Article 3Establishment#

1.The following joint undertakings are set up as Union bodies for a period ending on 31 December 2031 and financed under the MFF 2021-2027:

(a)the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking;

(b)the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking;

(c)the Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking;

(d)the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking;

(e)the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking;

(f)the Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking;

(g)the Chips Joint Undertaking;

(h)the Single European Sky ATM Research 3 Joint Undertaking;

(i)the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking.

2.The Union bodies referred to in paragraph 1 shall be collectively referred to as the ‘joint undertakings’.

3.In order to take into account the duration of Horizon Europe and, where applicable, DEP, calls for proposals under the joint undertakings shall be launched at the latest by 31 December 2027. In duly justified cases, calls for proposals may be launched by 31 December 2028, at the latest.

4.The joint undertakings shall have legal personality. In each of the Member States, they shall enjoy the most extensive legal capacity accorded to legal persons under the laws of that Member State. They may, in particular, acquire or dispose of movable and immovable property and may be a party to legal proceedings.

5.The seat of the joint undertakings shall be in Brussels, Belgium.

6.Unless specified otherwise, the provisions set out in Part One and Part Three shall apply to all joint undertakings. The provisions set out in Part Two shall apply to individual joint undertakings, as appropriate.

7.For the purposes of Parts One and Three and unless specified otherwise, a reference to an individual joint undertaking or body shall denote a reference to each joint undertaking or each equivalent body of the individual joint undertakings and its competences in relation to other bodies of the same joint undertaking.

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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;