Considerations on COM(2014)658 - Signing and provisional application of the Agreement associating Switzerland to Horizon 2020 and regulating its participation in Fusion for Energy

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dossier COM(2014)658 - Signing and provisional application of the Agreement associating Switzerland to Horizon 2020 and regulating its ...
document COM(2014)658 EN
date December  4, 2014
 
table>(1)On 15 November 2013, the Council authorised the Commission to open negotiations, on behalf of the Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, with the Swiss Confederation, with a view to concluding a comprehensive agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community and the Swiss Confederation associating the Swiss Confederation to Horizon 2020 — the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020) and the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2014-2018) complementing the Horizon 2020; and regulating Switzerland's participation in the ITER project in the years 2014-2020.
(2)Those negotiations have been successfully completed and the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community and the Swiss Confederation associating the Swiss Confederation to Horizon 2020 — the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community complementing Horizon 2020, and regulating the Swiss Confederation's participation in the ITER activities carried out by Fusion for Energy (‘the Agreement’) should be signed and applied on a provisional basis, pending the completion of the procedures for its conclusion.

(3)The conclusion of the Agreement is subject to a separate procedure as regards matters falling within the scope of the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community.

(4)In order to be able to treat Swiss legal entities like entities from an Associated Country in actions under Horizon 2020 which have a deadline in the last quarter of 2014, in particular calls under the specific objective ‘Spreading excellence and widening participation’, the Agreement should be applied on a provisional basis with effect from 15 September 2014,