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Date: 1989-02-24
Title: Re-examined Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION TO ADOPT A FIRST PLAN TO SUPPORT AND FACILITATE ACCESS TO LARGE-SCALE SCIENTIFIC FACILITIES OF EUROPEAN INTEREST (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149 paragraph 2, sub-section d) of the EEC Treaty)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                               COM ( 89 )  90 final - SYN 93
                                               Brussels ,   24 February   1989
                    Re-examined Proposal for a
                          COUNCIL DECISION
                        TO ADOPT A FIRST
     PLAN  TO  SUPPORT    AND  FACILITATE   ACCESS   TO   LARGE-SCALE
            SCIENTIFIC    FACILITIES   OF  EUROPEAN   INTEREST
     (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149
        paragraph 2 , sub–section d) of the EEC Treaty)
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                                             'Фгггг
 ---pagebreak---                        PART I
   RE-EXAMINED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION
                TO ADOPT A FIRST
                                 i
PLAN  TO SUPPORT  AND FACILITATE ACCESS TO LARGE-SCALE
      SCIENTIFIC
      SCIENTIFIC FACILITIES OF EUROPEAN INTEREST
 ---pagebreak--- THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard to the Treaty setting up the Europea n Economic
Community ,   iftd in particular to Article 130 Q(2 ),
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission
                                                 (2)
In co-operation with the European Parliament          ,
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee ^ "* ' ,
 ( 1 ) OJ N *
 ( 2 ) OJ N *
 ( 3 ) OJ M *
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas the terme of Article 130 K of the Treaty provide that
implementation of the Framework Programme be carried out_by
means of specific programmes developed within each of the
action     li nee ;
Whereas Council Decision 8 7 / 5 1 6 / Eu r a t om / E EC of
 28 September 1987 ^ ^ adopting the multiannual Framework
Programme 1987-1991 includes the use of major installations
amongst the activities it provides for ;
Whereas one of the objectives of the Community ROT)
efforts for 1987-1991 is to promote better use of
human resources in the Commu nity AH a vhole and to
improve the utilization of large-scale scientific and
tp»<-ihn1 cal installations through the addition of a
European dimension :
Whereas the present plan whilst being consistent with the
 pursuit of scientific excellence will help to improve the
 Community 's competitiveness in the field of research and at the
 same time strengthen economic and social cohesion in the
 Commu n i t y
 Whereas     the    Commission will  ensure that     the  research carried
 out under this plan falls solely within the scope o„f the EEC
 Treaty , e_v en in cases where the facility or installation used
 may not be wholly or partially covered by that Treaty ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Scientific and Technical
 Research Committee ( CREST ) on the Commission proposal .
 HAS    ADOPTED     THIS DECISION :
                                    Article  1
         An experimental Community plan to support and facilitate
 access to scientific and technical facilities and installations
  situated in the Community hereinafter referred to as the
  " Plan " - as defined in the Annex - is hereby adopted for a
  four-year period commencing on 1 January 1989 .
  ( 1 ) QJ N * L 302 , 24.10.1987 .
 ---pagebreak---                             Article  2
1.      The Plan consists of temporary financial support
   measures designed to facilitate access to and thereby
   develop the exploitation of large-scale scientific
   facilities situated in the European Community .
2.      To achieve this objective , the Community will provide
   financial support for operations chosen on the basis of
   their scientific and technical quality .   Such operations ,
   which will be selected in conformity with the procedure laid
   down in Article 3 of the present decision , must be based on
   joint proposals from the Institutions or bodies responsible
   for the facilities and from tha scientists or research
   workers wishing to acquire access to them .
3.      Community financial support for the operations will be
   used to contribute as necessary to :
   - the operating costs of the facilities and , if necessary ,
     the cost of adaptations and / or special features to meet
     the 'objectives set out in Paragraph 1 ;
   - incidental expenditure arising from the operations ;
   - expenditure incurred by the scientists or research workers
     including expenditure on mobility and travel .
4.      The scientists or research workers acquiring access to
   a facility as a result of Community financial support under
   this Plan shall  be nationals of  a Member State of the
   European Community . Financial support under this Plan shall
   only be granted to provide access to a scientific facility
   for scientists or research workers not normally enjoying
   access to the facility in questions .
                                                             3
 ---pagebreak--- 5-       The Commission shall notify the Council and the
   Parliament , within a maximum period of three months from
   their selection , of the list of beneficiaries ( scientific
   installations and researchers ) of the Plan .
6.       The precise objectives of the Plan , together with its
   detailed modalities for implémentation , are set out in
   Annex  I .
                             Artide  3
1.       The Commission shall be responsible for implementing
   the Plan .
2.       The Commission shall be assisted by a committee of an
   advisory nature composed of the representatives of the
   Member States and chaired by the representative of the
   Commission .
                                                          •4
3.       The representative of the Commission shall submit to
   the Committee  a draft of  the measures  to be taken .    The
   Committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft , within a
   time limit which the Chairman may lay down according to the
   urgency of the matter , if necessary by taking a vote .
         The opinion shall be recorded in the minutes ; in
   addition , each Member State shall have the right to ask to
   have its position recorded in the minutes .
         The Commission shall take the utmost account of the
   opinion delivered by the Committee .    It shall inform the
   Committee of the manner in which its opinion has been taken
   into account .
                                                                 4
 ---pagebreak---                             Article  4
      The funds estimated as necessary for the execution of the
Plan amount to 30 MECU including expenditure on a staff of
three .
                            Article  5
     The Commission shall address a report to the Council and
to the European Parliament after 30 months on the basis of an
evaluation of the results so far achieved .    This report shall
be accompanied by suggestions for changes which may be
necessary in the light of these results .
      After completion of the Plan , the Commission shall send to
the Council and the European Parliament a report on the
performance and results of the Plan .
      The abovementioned reports should be prepared in relation
to the precise objectives set out in Annex 1 to this Decision
and in conformity with the provisions of Article 2S2 of the
Framework Programme .
                            Article  6
      This Decision is addressed to  the  Member  States .
Done at Brussels ,
                                                 For the Council
                                                  The President
                                                                S
 ---pagebreak---                                                           ANNEX
              OBJECTIVES AND IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES
      The Plan takes the form of a number of temporary financial
support measures , aimed at encouraging access to large-scale
scientific and technical installations within the Community .
It is of potential benefit to all researchers in the exact and
natural sciences who are nationals of one of the Community
Member  States .
I . OBJECTIVES
           The precise objectives of the plan take the following
    form :
    - to encourage access by researchers who are nationals of
      Community Member States to major scientific and technical
      installations within the Community to which they would not
      normally enjoy access ;
    - to increase training opportunities available to European
      researchers so as to enable them to make better use of
      major scientific and technical installations ;
    - to develop the use of large-scale scientific and technical
      facilities within the Community , where necessary by
      adaptation and / or the addition of special features .
                                                              6
 ---pagebreak--- 2 .  POTENTIAL BENEFICIARIES
            Community financial support may be made available tos
     - any organisation within the Community which possesses
        major scientific and technical equipment or an
        installation of       interest to the exact and natural
        sciences ;
     - any researcher or engineer who is a national of one of the
        Community Member States and is currently working in a
        public or private sector laboratory in one of the Member
        States .     All  fields  of the   exact and  natural  sciences are
        eligible .
 3 . PROCEDURAL      ARRANGEMENTS
      3.1 Call    for proposals and selection procedure
           ( a ) The Commission will publish a call for preliminary
                 proposals from organisations or groups of
                 organisations within the Community having one or
                 more major scientific and technical installations
                 with experimental and / or test facilities which could
                 be  made  available   to  scientists   or research workers
                 who  have  hitherto   been  unable  to  use them .
                 The  Commission will     also ensure   that scientists and
                 research workers who could potentially benefit under
                 the Plan from access to the facilities in question
                 are informed of the possibilities likely to become
                 aval lable .
                                                                        7
 ---pagebreak---        The preliminary proposals received from those
       responsible for the large-scale facilities should be
       accompanied by a written statement of interest
       expressed by potential new users .
( b ) The Commission will draw up a draft preselection
       list of preliminary proposals to be retained . The
       Committee referred to in Article 3 will be informed
       of the proposals received and will give an opinion
       on the draft preselection list according to the
       procedure set out in Article 3S3 .    The Commission
       will then establish a preselection list of
       facilities which will be published in the Official
       Journa 1 .
( c ) On the basis of the preselection list , the
       Commission will ask for " joint proposals " from the
       installations and potential users concerned .    The
       Commission may , if necessary , assist in the
       organisation of meetings between those responsible
       for the installations and potential users ( financing
       of joint meetings , etc .).
 ( d ) The Commission will submit the list of joint
       proposals received to the Committee , which shall , in
       accordance with the procedure set out in
       Article 3 S 3 , give an opinion on the operations with
       a view to financial support from the Plan . The
       Commission will then proceed to the final selection
       of the operations to benefit from Community support .
                                                          8
 ---pagebreak--- 3.2 . Choice of      installations   to receive Community support
      Criteria     of   sélection
      The assessment of the value of Community support will
      be based upon an evaluation of the proposal put
      forward , on the basis of the following criteria :
      ( a ) Quality of the facility :
             - spécifie characteriBtics
             - originality or uniqueness
             - up - to - datenesB
             - range of experiments or tests possible
             - backup and technical support available .
       (b)   Interest shown by potential users :
             - Priority will be given to researchers from Member
               States other than that in which the major
               installation     is situated .
       ( c ) Cost / Benefit ratio of Community support :
             - the number and quality of opportunities made
               available at the facility in return for Community
               support .
       ( d ) Value to the Community :
             - importance of the facility in respect of the
               Community 's overall scientific and technical
               potentia 1
                                                                 9
 ---pagebreak---             - value of the experimental opportunities made
              available in terms of achieving the Community 's
               scientific and technical objectives ( potential
               links with sectoral R&D objectives )
            - value of the facility in terms of strengthening
               the scientific and technical potential of certain
               countries or regions of the EEC .
3.3 . Mechanisms for giving Community support to selected
      instal lations
             The Commission will conclude an agreement with the
      recipient organisation or institution which will set
      out :
      - the level of Community funding ;
      - the uses to which it may be put ,    including a
         quantification of the opportunities for access to
         visiting scientists ;
      - the obligations imposed upon the recipient
         organisation .
              The obligations imposed on the recipient
      organisation include , inter alia :
       - enabling the use of the equipment and installations
         forming the subject of the agreement at no extra
         charge by researchers not belonging to the recipient
         organisation or institution , this being for a fixed
         period of time over the year ;
                                                              10
 ---pagebreak---       - ensuring access by visiting scientists to the
        scientific and technical back-up services on site .
           The contracts will also specify :
      - the payment from Community funds to visiting
        scientists and research workers of all eligible
        expenditure covered by the Plan ;
      - the methods by which the results arising from
        research carried out under the agreement are to be
        protected , disseminated and exploited .
           Finally , the Commission will , in co-operation with
      the Installations concerned , take all appropriate
      measures to ensure the best possible implementation of
      the operations selected ( programming , availability of
      machine time , etc .).
3.4 . Implémentation  report
           At the end of each year of Community support , the
      beneficiary organisation or institute will make a
      report to the Commission upon the use to which the
      funds awarded to them were put , and the results arising
      from the  use which outside researchers made of  the
      facilities made available to them in the context of the
      agreement signed with the Commission .
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 ---pagebreak---                         PART  II
COMMENT OF THE COMMISSION ON THE AMENDEMENT OF PARLIAMENT WHICH
              ARE NOT ACCEPTED BY THE COMMISSION
1 . During its Meeting of IS February 1989 . the European
    Parliament , in its second reading of the Common Position on
    the Plan to support and faoilitate aooess to large-scale
    scientific facilities of european interest , adopted the
    attached one Amendment .
2 . The Commission can not aocept this amendement because of the
    following reasons :
    The amendment refers to the annual budgetary procedures and
    has been tabled repeatedly . The Commission believes that this
    amendment is not necessary as Art . 130 P of the EEC Treaty
    already covers this issue .
 ---pagebreak---                             PART II - ANNRX
AMENDMENT OP PARLIAMENT WICH IS NOT ACCEPTD BY THE COMMISSION
         Ariendraent No . 7
         Article A
         The funds estimated as necessary for
         the execution of the Plan amount to
         30 000 ECU including expenditure on
         a staff of three .
         Each year , as part of the annual
         budgetary procedure , the Commission
         shall propose to the Budgetary
         Authority that these funds be
         a l located to the title covering the
         programme   in accordance with the
         real needs   for the financial year in
         question and the financial estimates
         contained in the Interinsti tutional
         Acreement .