3 Amendments of Silvia-Adriana ȚICĂU related to 2013/0232(COD)
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) In April 2012, the Commission communicated to the European Parliament and the Council a report on the Interim evaluation of Eurostars Joint Programme22 carried out by a Group of Independent Experts two years after the beginning of the programme. The overall opinion of the experts was that the Eurostars programme meets its objectives, adds value to European research-performing small and medium-sized enterprises (hereinafter ‘SMEs’) and should be continued after 2013. The programme is also considered to meet a number of genuine needs of SMEs engaged in research and development; it has attracted a large number of applications, with the number of eligible projects exceeding the initial budget. A number of recommendations for improvement were made, mainly addressing the need of further integration of national programmes and improvements in the operational performance in order to reach shorter time to contract and more transparency in the procedures. __________________ 22 COM(2011) 186, 8 April 2011. COM(2011) 186, 8 April 2011.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – point 1 – point a
Article 3 – point 1 – point a
(a) the activities are carried out by transnational collaboration of research- performing SMEs among themselves or including other actors of the innovation chain (e.g. universities, research organisations), or by SMEs planning to engage in research and invest at least 10% of profits in research and innovation;
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex I – point 8
Annex I – point 8
8. Once the ranking list is approved, each Participating State shall finance its national participants in those projects selected for funding through the designated National Funding Body, making all possible efforts to ensure that the top-5100 ranked projects and at least 650 to 75% of the projects above thresholds are funded. The financial contribution to the participants shall be calculated according to the funding rules of the Eurostars-2 Participating State’s national programme. The Union’s financial contribution shall be transferred by ESE to the NFBs provided that the NFBs have paid their financial contribution to the projects.