Commission Decision of 27 July 2009 amending Decision 2008/721/EC as regards indemnities paid to members of Scientific Committees and experts in the field of consumer safety, public health and the environment (notified under document number C(2009) 5767) (2009/566/EC)

ANNEX U.K.

“ANNEX III INDEMNITIES

Members of the Scientific Committees, scientific advisors from the Pool and the external experts shall be entitled to indemnities related to their participation in the activities of the scientific committees as follows:

For participating in meetings of the Committees, workshops, working groups and other meetings and events organised by the Commission:

• EUR 385 for each of the days during which the attended meeting has taken place,

For acting as Rapporteur:

• The indemnity is modulated, depending on the workload related to the complexity of the matter, the length of the period needed to complete the opinion, the amount and accessibility of data and scientific literature and information to be collected and processed and the extent and complexity of public and stakeholder consultations and contacts with other bodies, in light of the following indicative criteria:

  Amount	Indicative Criteria
  EUR 385	Simple and routine issue Opinion based on examination of a dossier, with limited data search and limited literature examination No public consultation No more than 5 months between first and last meeting
  EUR 770	Complex issue Opinion based on significant data and literature search and examination Stakeholder and/or public consultation with limited feedback examination workload From 5 to 9 months between the first and the last meeting
  EUR 1 155	Very complex issue Need for very extensive data and literature search and analysis Extensive and complex consultations with stakeholder, the public and other scientific bodies, with important feedback to be examined More than 9 months between the first and the last meeting

• In each specific case, on the basis of the criteria mentioned above, the Commission shall indicate in the request for an opinion which of the amounts for the indemnity of the Rapporteur applies. The choice of the applicable amount may be modified by the Commission during the preparatory work for the requested opinion if that is justified by unforeseen changes in relation to the relevant criteria.

• The Commission will regularly assess the need to adapt these indemnities in light of prices indexes, the evaluation of indemnities paid to experts in other European bodies and the experience on the workload for members, associated members, other scientific advisors and external experts.”