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**Council of the**
**European Union**

**Interinstitutional File:**

**2022/0233(NLE)**

**Brussels, 18 November 2022**
**(OR. en)**

**14753/22**

**RECH 598**
**ERAC 11**
**PI 156**
**EDUC 383**
**COMPET 899**
**IND 473**
**MI 823**

**NOTE**

From: General Secretariat of the Council

To: Permanent Representatives Committee/Council

No. prev. doc.: 14448/22

No. Cion doc.: 11789/22

Subject: _Preparation of the Council (Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry,_
_Research and Space)) on 1-2 December 2022_

Council Recommendation on the guiding principles for knowledge
valorisation

              - Adoption

1. On 9 August 2022, the Commission submitted to the Council a proposal for a Council

recommendation on the guiding principles for knowledge valorisation **[1]** .

2. In its proposal, the Commission suggested to update the Commission Recommendation

2008/416/EC concerning the management of intellectual property in knowledge transfer

activities and a Code of Practice for universities and other public research organisations,

given that the research and innovation (R&I) landscape had changed considerably in terms of

actors and complexity of the R&I ecosystems as well as regarding the global challenges.

**1** 11789/22.

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3. The aim of the proposal was to adopt a common line on policy principles and measures for

improving knowledge valorisation in the Union, without imposing legally binding provisions.

4. At its meetings on 13 September, 13 and 27 October 2022, the Council Working Party on

Research examined the proposal and discussed a compromise text proposed by the

Presidency.

5. Following an informal silent procedure concluded on 4 November 2022, the Working Party

reached an agreement on the revised Presidency compromise text **[2]** . The final version of the

text agreed, following a legal-linguistic revision, is set out in document 14448/22.

6. The draft Council recommendation contains a set of 24 guiding principles in areas such as

knowledge valorisation in R&I policy, skills and capacities, incentives, intellectual asset

management, relevancy in public funding schemes, peer learning, metrics, monitoring and

evaluation. The scope of actors and activities, compared to the Commission Recommendation

of 2008 is broader, with a focus on the whole R&I ecosystem. The new Recommendation

emphasizes the importance of developing entrepreneurial practices and skills, as well as the

needs for increasing the impact of R&I.

7. In view of the above, the Permanent Representatives Committee is invited to

a) confirm the agreement reached by the Working Party on Research on the text of the

draft Council Recommendation, as set out in document 14448/22;

b) recommend to the Council (COMPET) to adopt, at its session on 2 December 2022, the

Council Recommendation on the guiding principles for knowledge valorisation, which

to be subsequently published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

**2** 13804/22.

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