1.Parts One and Three shall apply to research and technological development appropriations, except as otherwise provided in this Title.
Such appropriations shall be entered either in one of the titles of the budget relating to the policy areas linked to "Indirect research" and "Direct research" or in a chapter relating to research activities in another title.
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning detailed rules on types of operations under research.
2.The appropriations relating to the revenue generated by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel established by Protocol No 37 on the financial consequences of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and on the Research Fund for Coal and Steel annexed to the TEU and the TFEU shall be treated as assigned revenue within the meaning of Article 21. The commitment appropriations generated by such revenue shall be made available as soon as the amount receivable has been estimated and the payment appropriations as soon as the revenue has been received.
3.With regard to the operational expenditure referred to in this Title, the Commission may make transfers from one title to another, provided that the appropriations are used for the same purpose.
4.Experts paid from research and technological development appropriations shall be recruited in accordance with the procedures laid down by the European Parliament and the Council when they adopt each research framework programme or in accordance with the corresponding rules for the participation of undertakings, research centres and universities.
1.The commitment appropriations corresponding to the amount of the commitment decommitted as a result of total or partial non-implementation of the projects relating to research for which they were earmarked may, exceptionally and in duly justified cases, be made available again where it is essential to carry out the programme originally planned, unless the budget for the financial year concerned (year n) contains funds for this purpose.
2.For the purposes of paragraph 1, the Commission shall, at the beginning of each financial year, examine decommitments made during the preceding financial year (year n – 1) and assess, in the light of the requirements, the need to make the appropriations available again.
On the basis of this assessment, the Commission may submit appropriate proposals to the European Parliament and the Council, by 15 February of each financial year, stating for each budget item the reasons for making those appropriations available again.
3.The European Parliament and the Council shall decide on the Commission's proposals within six weeks. Where no decision is taken within this time limit, the proposals shall be deemed to be approved.
The amount of commitment appropriations to be made available again in year n shall in no case exceed 25 % of the total amount decommitted on the same budget line in year n – 1.
4.Commitment appropriations made available again shall not be carried over.
Legal commitments relating to the commitment appropriations which have been made available again shall be concluded by 31 December of year n.
At the end of year n, the unused balance of the commitment appropriations made available again shall be definitively decommitted by the authorising officer responsible.
1.The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may receive funding charged to appropriations entered outside the titles and the chapters referred to in Article 181(1) in respect of its participation in procurement and grant procedures following Titles V and VI of Part One, and financed in whole or in part from the budget.
For the purposes of the participation in the procurement and grant procedures, the JRC shall be considered as a legal person established in a Member State.
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 210 concerning detailed rules on the JRC.
2.Appropriations relating to the following shall be treated as assigned revenue within the meaning of Article 21(2):
(a)grant and procurement procedures in which the JRC participates;
(b)activities of the JRC on behalf of third parties; or
(c)activities undertaken under an administrative agreement with other institutions or other Commission departments for the provision of technical-scientific services.
The commitment appropriations generated by revenue referred to in points (a) and (c) of the first subparagraph shall be made available as soon as the amount receivable has been estimated.
For activities referred to in point (c) of the first subparagraph, appropriations not used within five years shall be cancelled.
3.The use of appropriations shall be shown in a set of analytical accounts in the budgetary outturn account for each category of action to which it relates; it shall be separate from revenue originating from financing by third parties (public or private) and from revenue from other services carried out by the Commission for third parties.
4.When participating in grant or procurement procedures in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article, the JRC shall not be subject to the conditions laid down in Article 106, points (b) and (c) of Article 107(1), Articles 108 and 109, Articles 131(4) and 131(5) regarding provisions on exclusion and penalties in relation to procurement and grants.
The JRC shall also be presumed to meet the requirements relating to economic and financial capacity.
The JRC shall be exempted from lodging guarantees as referred to in Articles 115 and 134.
5.The rules on procurement in Title V of Part One shall not apply to the activities of the JRC on behalf of third parties.
6.By way of derogation from Article 26, the Commission may, within the title of the budget relating to the "Direct research" policy area, make transfers between chapters of up to 15 % of the appropriation in the line from which the transfer is made.