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dossier	COM(2018)445 - Amendment of Decision 2007/198/Euratom establishing the European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion ...
document	COM(2018)445
date	February 22, 2021

Article 1

Decision 2007/198/Euratom is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 4 is amended as follows:

(a)	paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: ‘3. The indicative Euratom contribution to the Joint Undertaking for the period 2021-2027, including the related supporting expenditure as referred to in paragraph 4 for the same period, shall be EUR 5 614 000 000 in current prices.’;

(b)

the following paragraph is added:

‘4. The amount referred to in paragraph 3 may also cover expenses relating to preparation, monitoring, control, audit, evaluation and other activities and expenditure necessary for managing and implementing this Decision, including administrative expenditure, as well as evaluating the achievement of its objectives. It may also cover expenses relating to studies and meetings of experts, and expenses relating to information technology networks focusing on information processing and exchange, including corporate information technology tools and other technical and administrative assistance needed in connection with the management of this Decision.’;

(2)	Article 5b is deleted;

(3)

the following Article is inserted:

‘Article 5c

Evaluation

1. Evaluations of the implementation of this Decisionshall be carried out regularly and in a timely manner to feed into the decision-making process.

2. Once sufficient information about the implementation of this Decision during the period 2021-2027 is available, the Commission shall carry out an interim evaluation of the implementation of this Decision at the latest by 2024.

3. At the end of the implementation of this Decision, at the latest by four years after the end of the period specified in Article 4(3), the Commission shall carry out a final evaluation of the implementation of this Decision.

4. The Commission shall communicate the conclusions of the evaluations carried out under this Article, accompanied by its observations, to the European Parliament, to the Council, to the European Economic and Social Committee and to the Committee of the Regions.’;

(4)

the following Article is inserted:

‘Article 5d

Communication, visibility and publicity

1. The recipients of Community funding shall acknowledge the origin of those funds and ensure the visibility of the Community funding, in particular when promoting the actions and their results, by providing coherent, effective and proportionate targeted information to multiple audiences, including to the media and the public.

2. The Commission shall implement information and communication actions relating to this Decision, to actions taken pursuant to this Decision and to the results obtained. Financial resources allocated to this Decision shall also contribute to the corporate communication of the political priorities of the Union, insofar as those priorities are related to the objectives referred to in Article 1.’.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2021.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.