Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2200 of 4 September 2024 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/996 setting up ECCSEL ERIC (notified under document C(2024) 5833) (Only the Dutch, English, French and Italian texts are authentic)

The Statutes of the ECCSEL ERIC annexed to Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/996 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

This Decision is addressed to the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

1 A substantial part of the available research time for each national facility participating in the ECCSEL infrastructure is to be offered to the international research community. The General Assembly shall reserve a proportion of the access time available to researchers from states that are not Members of ECCSEL ERIC.

2 ECCSEL ERIC and the owners of the research facilities shall enter into individual agreements related to how large a proportion of the available research time will be made available for the international research community and the conditions for access.

3 The access to ECCSEL ERIC facilities shall be open to researchers, scientists and students. The granting of ECCSEL-supported access is based on competition and peer review of applications after a fair and transparent procedure. The main criteria for the competition shall be scientific excellence and importance in relation to ECCSEL ERIC strategies, as decided by the General Assembly.

4 ECCSEL ERIC may establish a system for authentication and authorisation that ensures that only persons that are entitled to access a facility are admitted entry and use. ECCSEL ERIC may decide that Members and Observers must adhere to such a system if their researchers are to be granted access.

5 A detailed Access Policy applicable to users, approved by the General Assembly, is to be publicly available.’