Annex

ANNEX III

INDEMNITIES

1.

Members of the Scientific Committees, scientific advisors from the Pool and external experts shall be entitled to an indemnity for their participation in the meetings of the committees, thematic workshops, working groups and other meetings and events organised by the Commission as follows:

1. (a)

   in the case of participation in person, EUR 385 for each day in which they were present;

2. (b)

   in the case of participation from distance, EUR 100 for every begun hour of attendance, with a ceiling of:

   1. (i)

      EUR 385 for attendance over a morning and an afternoon; and

   2. (ii)

      EUR 195 for attendance over a morning or an afternoon;

2.

Members of the Scientific Committees, scientific advisors from the Pool and external experts shall be entitled to an indemnity for acting as Rapporteur as follows:

1. (a)

   the indemnity shall be 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 five 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 five to nine 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 nine months between the first and the last meeting

2. (b)

   in each specific case, on the basis of the criteria mentioned in point (a), 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.