Implementing decision 2014/923 - 2014/923/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 12 December 2014 on setting up the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (JIV-ERIC) - Main contents

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION

of 12 December 2014

on setting up the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (JIV-ERIC)

(2014/923/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 of 25 June 2009 on the Community legal framework for a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) (1), and in particular point (a) of Article 6(1) thereof,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

• 1. 

  The Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (JIV-ERIC) is hereby established.

• 2. 

  The Statutes of JIV-ERIC are set out in the Annex. The Statutes shall be kept up to date and made publicly available on the website of JIV-ERIC and at its statutory seat.

• 3. 

  The essential elements of the Statutes for which amendments shall require approval by the Commission in accordance with Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 are provided for in Articles 1, 2, 18, 20-25, 27 and 28.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 12 December 2014.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude JUNCKER

• (1) 

  OJ L 206, 8.8.2009, p. 1.

ANNEX

PREAMBLE

RECOGNISING the longstanding organisation of the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe and the importance for the European Research Area it was agreed by the parties to transfer all operational activities from the Dutch national legal entity ‘Stichting JIVE’ into a legal entity under the Regulation (EC) No 723/2009 to be named ‘JIV-ERIC’.

Whereas:

The European VLBI Network (EVN) is a longstanding consortium with flexibly expandable structure that offers an astronomical observing facility through joint observations of radio telescopes across Europe and other continents and which is used by a vital and globally distributed scientific community. The EVN has been proven to maintain very high standards and a very stable network for more than two decades.

Within the EVN, the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) has been established in 1993 as a Dutch national legal entity (Stichting/Foundation) to implement central services and in particular the data processing (correlation) of the collected telescope data. It offers the users of the EVN support in proposing, processing and interpreting the observations of the EVN. It also provides feedback on the data quality delivered by the telescopes. JIVE provides the essential infrastructure for the joint observations of the EVN and other networks. JIVE has an active role in enhancing the capabilities of the EVN by developing new techniques, notably concerning the central processing and user services.

In this and other activities JIVE has acted as the representative of the EVN, in particular when carrying out EC programmes. The relationship of the JIVE infrastructure and EVN is addressed in the EVN Consortium Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) concluded in Berlin on 22 November 2002.

JIVE is...

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