LegalizeCommission Decision of 12 December 2013 establishing the European Research Council
COMMISSION DECISION
of 12 December 2013
establishing the European Research Council
2013/C 373/09
Article 1
Establishment of the European Research Council
The European Research Council (‘ERC’) is hereby established for the period from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2020. It shall replace and succeed the European Research Council set up by Commission Decision 2007/134/EC.
Article 2
Members of the Scientific Council
The Scientific Council shall be composed of the President of the ERC (‘ERC President’) and 21 other members. The 21 persons listed in Annex I are hereby appointed as the other members of the Scientific Council for the term of office laid down therein.
Members shall carry out their tasks independently of any outside influence. They shall inform the Commission in good time of any conflict of interests which might undermine their objectivity.
Members shall be appointed for a term of up to four years, renewable once. A member may be appointed for a period of less than the maximum term to allow a staggered rotation of members. Members shall remain in office until they are replaced or their term expires.
In duly justified cases, in order to maintain the integrity or continuity of the Scientific Council, the Commission may terminate the term of a member on its own initiative.
Article 3
Operation of the Scientific Council
The Scientific Council shall adopt its rules of procedure, as well as a code of conduct on confidentiality, conflict of interest and processing of personal data in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001.
The Scientific Council shall meet in plenary as required by its work. Summary minutes of the plenary meetings shall be published on the ERC website.
The Chair may decide to hold meetings in closed session in accordance with the rules of procedure of the Scientific Council.
The Scientific Council may set up, from amongst its members, standing committees, working groups and other structures addressing specific tasks of the Scientific Council.
The preliminary positions of the Scientific Council set up by Decision 2007/134/EC on the measures to be adopted in accordance with Article 7 of Decision 2013/743/EU shall be endorsed or rejected by the Scientific Council established under this Decision immediately after its establishment.
Article 4
Cooperation within the European Research Council
The Scientific Council and the dedicated implementation structure shall ensure coherence between the strategic and operational aspects of all the ERC’s activities. The ERC President, the Vice-Chairs of the Scientific Council and the Director of the dedicated implementation structure shall hold regular coordination meetings to ensure an effective cooperation.
Article 5
Access to documents and data
The Commission and the dedicated implementation structure shall provide the Scientific Council with the documents, data and assistance necessary for its work allowing it to operate under conditions of autonomy and independence, in compliance with Regulation (EC) No 45/2001.
The members of the Scientific Council shall use the documents and data provided to them in accordance with paragraph 1 only for the purposes and tasks for which they are provided, and they shall be bound by an obligation of confidentiality.
Appropriate organisational and technical measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of the documents and data shall be taken by the Scientific Council, in order to prevent any unauthorised disclosure or access, accidental or unlawful destruction, loss or alteration of data and documents.
The members of the Scientific Council shall give due care to the legitimacy, adequacy, relevance, accuracy, necessity and the limitation in time of the collection, processing and storage of personal data.
Where access to documents and data or access to personal data cannot be granted for reasons related to the protection of personal data, confidentiality, security or public interest, the Commission and the dedicated implementation structure shall provide the Scientific Council with a written statement of those reasons, as well as any information on the topic in question that they consider possible to provide within the provisions of the regulations.
Article 6
Compensation of the members of the Scientific Council other than the ERC President
Rules on the honoraria for the tasks performed by Scientific Council members other than the ERC President and the reimbursement of their travel and subsistence expenses are set out in Annex II.
Article 7
Repeal
Decision 2007/134/EC is repealed. References to the repealed Decision shall be construed as references to this Decision.
Article 8
Entry into force
This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 2014.
ANNEX I
Members of the Scientific Council
| Name and Institute | End of term of office |
|---|---|
| Klaus BOCK, Danish National Research Foundation | 31 December 2016 |
| Nicholas CANNY, National University of Ireland, Galway | 31 December 2015 |
| Sierd A.P.I. CLOETINGH, Utrecht University | 31 December 2015 |
| Athene DONALD, University of Cambridge | 31 December 2016 |
| Barbara ENSOLI, Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Roma | 31 December 2016 |
| Nuria Sebastian GALLES, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona | 31 December 2016 |
| Reinhard GENZEL, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | 31 December 2016 |
| Timothy HUNT, Cancer Research UK, South Mimms | 31 December 2015 |
| Tomas JUNGWIRTH, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | 31 December 2018 |
| Matthias KLEINER, Technical University of Dortmund | 31 December 2016 |
| Eva KONDOROSI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences | 31 December 2016 |
| Mart SAARMA, University of Helsinki | 31 December 2016 |
| Nils Christian STENSETH, University of Oslo | 31 December 2017 |
| Martin STOKHOF, University of Amsterdam | 31 December 2017 |
| Janet THORNTON, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory | 31 December 2018 |
| Reinhilde VEUGELERS, Catholic University of Leuven | 31 December 2016 |
| Michel WIEVIORKA, Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention, Paris | 31 December 2017 |
| Fabio ZWIRNER, University of Padova | 31 December 2018 |
ANNEX II
Rules on the compensation of the members of the Scientific Council other than the ERC President, as referred to in Article 6
- 1.Honoraria of members of the Scientific Council other than the ERC President as well as their travel and subsistence expenses in relation to the performance of their tasks shall be paid by the dedicated implementation structure in accordance with a contract including the conditions laid down in points 2 to 5.
- 2.The honoraria of the vice-chairs of the Scientific Council shall be EUR 3 500 for full attendance at a plenary meeting and EUR 1 750 for partial attendance.
- 3.The honoraria of the other members referred to in point 1 shall be EUR 2 000 for full attendance at a plenary meeting and EUR 1 000 for partial attendance.
- 4.Payments shall be authorised by the Director of the dedicated implementation structure or his deputy on the basis of an attendance list validated by the ERC President and the Director of the dedicated implementation structure or their deputies. The attendance list shall indicate if each member attended the entire meeting (full attendance) or only part of it (partial attendance).
- 5.For other meetings than plenary meetings, the dedicated implementation structure shall, where appropriate, reimburse travel and subsistence expenses of the members of the Scientific Council necessary for carrying out their activities, in accordance with their contract and the Commission's rules on the compensation of external experts ([^E0001]).
- 6.The honoraria and travel and subsistence expenses shall be paid from the operational budget of the Specific Programme established by Decision 2013/743/EU.
[^E0001]: Commission Decision C(2007) 5858.
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