Council Regulation (EC) No 74/2008 (repealed)Show full title

Article 8 Public Authorities Board

Composition, voting rights and decision taking:

(a)

The Public Authorities Board shall consist of the public authorities of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking;

(b)

each public authority shall appoint its representatives and a lead delegate who shall hold the voting rights in the Public Authorities Board;

(c)

one third of the voting rights in the Public Authorities Board shall be assigned to the Community; the remaining two thirds shall be allocated to the other members of the Public Authorities Board on an annual basis in proportion to their financial contribution to the activities of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking for that year in accordance with Article 11(6)b and with an upper limit for any given member of 50 % of the total voting rights in the Public Authorities Board;

(d)

if less than three ARTEMIS Member States have communicated to the Executive Director their financial contribution according to Article 11(6)(b), the Community shall hold one third of the votes and the remaining two thirds shall be distributed equally amongst the ARTEMIS Member States;

(e)

decisions shall be taken by at least 60 % of total votes;

(f)

the representative of the Community shall have a veto right on all issues concerning the use of its own contribution to the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking;

(g)

any Member State or Associated Country that is not member of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking shall be able to participate in the Public Authorities Board as an observer. These States shall receive all relevant Public Authorities Board documents and shall be able to provide advice on any decision taken by the Public Authorities Board.

Role and tasks

The Public Authorities Board shall:

(a)

ensure that the principles of fairness and transparency are properly applied in the allocation of public funding to participants in projects;

(b)

discuss and approve the Annual Work Programme referred to in Article 19(2) upon proposals from the Industry and Research Committee, including the budgets available for calls for proposals;

(c)

approve the rules of procedure for calls for proposals, for the evaluation and selection of proposals and for monitoring of projects;

(d)

upon proposal of the representative of the Community, decide on the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking financial contribution to the budget of the calls for proposals;

(e)

approve the scope and the launch of calls for proposals;

(f)

approve the selection of project proposals to receive public funding following calls for proposals;

(g)

upon proposal of the representative of the Community, decide on the percentage of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking's financial contribution referred to in Article 13(6)(a) to participants in projects arising from calls for proposals in any given year;

(h)

adopt its rules of procedure in accordance with paragraph 3.

Rules of procedure

(a)

The Public Authorities Board shall meet at least twice a year, normally at the seat of the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking;

(b)

the Public Authorities Board shall elect its Chairperson;

(c)

until the Public Authorities Board has adopted its rules of procedure, the meetings shall be convened by the Commission;

(d)

the quorum of the Public Authorities Board shall be constituted by the Commission and at least three ARTEMIS Member States representatives.