{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-767/annex/division-EUROPEAN/division-3/division-3.1.2/division-3.1.2.1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2010/767",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 9 December 2010 amending Decision C(2007) 2286 on the adoption of ERC Rules for the submission of proposals and the related evaluation, selection and award procedures for indirect actions under the Ideas Specific Programme of the Seventh Framework Programme (2007 to 2013) (Text with EEA relevance) (2010/767/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-767",
  "path": "annex/division/EUROPEAN/division/3/division/3.1.2/division/3.1.2.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3.1.2.1",
  "heading": "Exclusion of independent experts at the request of an applicant",
  "text": "Applicants may be allowed by the relevant Guide for Applicants to make a request that a specific person would not act as peer reviewer in the evaluation of their proposal. In such cases, applicants will be asked to specify the reasons for their request. Under such circumstances, if the person identified is an independent expert participating in the evaluation of the proposals for the call in question, he/she may be excluded from the evaluation of the proposal concerned, as long as the ERCEA remains in the position to have the proposal evaluated.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The relevant Guide for Applicants could allow for up to a maximum of three people who may be indicated by the applicant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Reasons have to be based on clear grounds such as direct scientific rivalry, professional hostility, or similar situation which would impair or put in doubt the objectivity of the potential evaluator."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2010/767/annex/division/EUROPEAN/division/3/division/3.1.2/division/3.1.2.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:56.395033+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}