10 Amendments of Gunnar HÖKMARK related to 2011/0399(COD)
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 15
(15) 'results‘ means any intangible or tangible results of the action, such as data, knowledge and information whatever their form or nature, whether or not they can be protected, which are generated in the action as well as any attached rights, including intellectual property rights;
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11 a (new)
Article 11a Synergies with cohesion funds In order to create synergies and efficiency with the use of Cohesion policy funds dedicated to research purposes common rules for participation should be set. One single set of rules and entry point for all research funding from Union shall be established, including usage of same Participant Identification Code (PIC) and participant portal for all of Union calls and projects
Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 a (new)
Article 16 a (new)
Article 16a Time to grant The Commission or the relevant funding body shall ensure that the time between the deadline for proposals as established by the individual calls for proposals and the signature of the grant agreement, or where applicable the grant decision, shall as a general rule be limited to four months, with a possibility to extend the time to signature of the grant agreement up to maximum period of six months
Amendment 427 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4
Article 22 – paragraph 4
4. The Horizon 2020 grant mayshall reach a maximum of 100 % of the total eligible costs, without prejudice to the co-financing principle.
Amendment 465 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. To cover costs for the management and coordination of the action, each action shall receive an additional lump sum corresponding to 5% of the total direct eligible costs, excluding direct eligible costs for subcontracting and the costs of resources made available by third parties which are not used on the premises of the beneficiary, as well as financial support to third parties. This lump sum is to be managed at the discretion of the consortium.
Amendment 466 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Regarding the validation process that is used to validate and verify the type of participant, the records of the Unique Registration facility, including the Participation Identification code shall be used to the greatest possible extent. For entities that have been validated in previous framework programmes, no repeated validations shall be necessary, unless the entity's legal nature has changed or, in case of SMEs, a company has exceeded the requirements of the SME definition.
Amendment 475 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 23 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Value added tax (VAT) shall be considered as eligible cost if the beneficiary can not be reimbursed according to the national legislation.
Amendment 501 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, indirect eligible costs shall for SMEs and non-profit legal entities be determined by applying a flat rate of 35% of the total direct eligible costs, excluding direct eligible costs for subcontracting and the costs of resources made available by third parties which are not used on the premises of the beneficiary, as well as financial support to third parties.
Amendment 507 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1
1. Eligible personnel costs shall only cover the actual hours worked by the persons directly carrying out work under the action. The evidence regarding the actual hours worked shall be provided by the participant, normally through a in accordance with the participant's own official time recording system.
Amendment 514 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 3
Article 25 – paragraph 3
3. The grant agreement shall contain the minimum requirements for the time recording system as well as the number of annual productive hours to be used for the calculation of the hourly personnel rates.which may entail one single document declaring the university/legal entity degree of the involvement of the researchers/participant in the project. The number of annual productive hours to be used for the calculation of the hourly personnel rates shall be based on each participant's own normal accounting and management principles, and relevant national rules, and may be expressed as an percentage of working time