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23 Amendments of Marisa MATIAS related to 2018/0003(NLE)

Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) The involvement of academic and research institutions and other stakeholders, should be encouraged with a view to maintaining and supporting integrated scientific data infrastructures and High Performance Computing.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 a (new)
(23a) Access time to the supercomputers should not be proportionate to financial contributions, and a level playing field for users from all Member States, scientists and industries in the Union should be ensured.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
(26) Voting rights should be, in principle, proportional to the financial and in-kind contributions of its members. Participating States should only have the right to vote on activities related to procurement of the Joint Undertaking if they contribute resources to the procurement activities respectively should only vote on activities related to the indirect actions if they contribute resources. The voting rights should be calculated on an annually on the basis of the actual contributions.deleted
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41 a (new)
(41a) The Joint Undertaking should guarantee that the High Performance Computing supercomputers in the Union are accessible exclusively to entities which comply with Union law on data protection, privacy and security.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to provide scientists, industry and the public sector from the Union or an Associated Country to Horizon 2020 with latest High Performance Computing and Data Infrastructure and support the development of its technologies and its applications across a wide range of fields for civilian use.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) to provide Union level coordination and adequate financial resources to support the development and acquisition of such infrastructure, which will be accessible to users from the public and private sector primarily forexclusively for civilian research and innovation purposes;
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) to provide access to High Performance Computing-based infrastructures and services to a wide range of users from the research and scientific community as well as the industry including, micro enterprises, SMEs, and the public sector, for new and emerging data and compute- intensive applications and services with civilian purposes;
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point i
(i) to increase the innovation potential of industry, and in particular of SMEs,micro and SMEs, as well as of research and scientific communities using advanced High Performance Computing infrastructures and services;
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
(aa) geographic balance.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(3a) Access to the supercomputers shall be granted exclusively for the purpose of civilian research and innovation activities.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The share of the Union’s access time to each pre-exascale supercomputer shall be directly proportional to the financial contribution of the Union to its acquisition cost in relation to the total cost of acquisition and operation of the pre- exascale supercomputer. The Governing Board shall define the access rights to the Union’s share of access time.deleted
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Each Participating State shall be allocated a share of access time to each pre-exascale supercomputer that shall be directly proportional to the total value of its financial and in-kind contributions for the acquisition and operation costs of the pre-exascale supercomputer. Without prejudice of Article 12(3) the Participating State shall be responsible for defining the access rights for the users, in accordance with the access conditions defined by the Governing Board in accordance with Article 9(2).
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
(1) Specific conditions shall apply to industrial users applying for access right foronly for civilian private research purposes, non-research and innovation purposes or commercial purposes. This commercial service shall be a paying service, based on market prices. The level of the fee shall be established by the Governing Board.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 6 – point 1 – paragraph 2
For the general administrative tasks referred to in Article 7(3), the voting rights of the Participating States shall be in proportion to their actual financial commitment to the activities of the Joint Undertaking over the duration of the Joint Undertaking.deleted
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 6 – point 2 – paragraph 1
For the tasks related to the implementation of the actions of the Joint Undertaking, as defined in Article 7(4), the voting rights of the Participating States shall be in proportion to their actual contributions to the activities of the Joint Undertaking over the duration of the Joint Undertaking.deleted
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 6 – point 2 – paragraph 2
Voting rights of the Participating States shall be calculated on an annual basis, taking into consideration the contributions made since their accession to the Joint Undertaking. For the calculation of the voting rights the contributions of the Participating States to the operational costs of the supercomputers acquired by the Joint Undertaking and for the contributions of the Participating States to the acquisition costs of the petascale supercomputers shall only be taken into account if they have been certified ex-ante by an independent auditor.deleted
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 6 – point 2 – paragraph 3
The Participating States of the Joint Undertaking shall only have the right to vote on the issues related to the acquisition of a pre-exascale supercomputer by the Joint Undertaking on the condition that they provide a financial or in-kind contribution to the acquisition or operation of the pre-exascale supercomputer. In particular the Participating State shall have the right to vote on the work plan with corresponding expenditure estimates for the procurement, selection of hosting entity, the award of the contracts, the allocation of the access rights, and the transfer of ownership to the hosting entity.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 6 – point 2 – paragraph 4
The Participating States of the Joint Undertaking shall only have the right to vote on the issues related to the indirect actions implemented by the Joint Undertaking if they provide a financial contribution to the Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the corresponding parts of the workplan. In particular, in this case the Participating State shall have the right to vote on the work plan with corresponding expenditure estimates for the indirect actions, and the list of indirect actions selected for fundingfor the implementation of the corresponding parts of the workplan.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 6 – point 3
(3) The members of the Governing Board shall make every effort to achieve consensus. Failing consensus, the Governing Board shall take its decisions by a majority of at least 75% of all vothe votes of the Participating Member States, including the votes of the members who are absent.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 6 – point 4
(4) Any member of the Joint Undertaking other than the Union that fails to meet its commitments concerning the contributions referred to in Article 5 of the Regulation within six months of the time-limit as defined by the Governing Board shall be disqualified from voting in the Governing Board and shall have no access to the pre-exascale supercomputers owned by the Joint Undertaking until such time as its obligations have been met.deleted
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 6 – point 6 – paragraph 2
The quorum of the Governing Board shall be constituted by the Commission and at least half of the number of three Participating States’ representatives.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 15 – point 5
(5) Should any member of the Joint Undertaking be in default of its commitments concerning its financial contribution, the Executive Director shall put this in writing and shall set a reasonable period within which such default shall be remedied. If the situation is not remedied within that period, the Executive Director shall convene a meeting of the Governing Board to decide whether the defaulting member’s membership is to be revoked or whether any other measures are to be taken until its obligations have been met. The defaulting member’s voting rights shall be suspended until the default of its commitments is remedied
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex – Article 21 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The Joint Undertaking shall ensure compliance with Union law on data protection, and privacy.
2018/05/03
Committee: ITRE