{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-767/annex/division-EUROPEAN/division-5/division-5.4/division-C",
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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/5/division/5.4/division/C",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(C)",
  "heading": "Scrutiny of potential classified ERC Actions",
  "text": "After the scientific evaluation of proposals, they shall be ranked according to the evaluation results. A ‘retained list’ containing proposals recommended for possible funding, namely that have not been rejected, and for which funding is available, plus ‘reserve-list(s)’ are established by the ERCEA.\nAny ERC action on the retained list and on the reserve list(s), which has the flag ‘security considerations’, will undergo a scrutiny procedure. This will be performed by an ad-hoc sub-committee: the ‘Security Scrutiny Committee’.\nThis ‘Security Scrutiny Committee’ is composed by Member States representatives nominated in close liaison with the competent national security authorities, supported if appropriate by representatives of the relevant Programme Committee(s), in a configuration representing the countries of the proposal applicants. This Committee is chaired by a representative of the Commission.\nThis Committee will verify if all security aspects are properly taken into account by the applicants. Proposals will be scrutinised by Committee members from the same countries as the proposal applicants.\nThis process should reach a common position between the concerned national representatives resulting in one of the following recommendations:\nClassification is not required: Procedures for preparation of the ERC grant agreements can be started (though some recommendations for preparation may be issued, if relevant),\nClassification is required: specific recommendations for the preparation of the ERC grant agreement are given in the form of conditions to be met in the grant agreement. The ERC action will become a Classified Action and will be EU-classified at the level of the highest classification of the information used/produced by the ERC action as indicated in the SAL and its annexed SCG,\nThe proposal is too sensitive to be financed because the applicants do not have the appropriate experience, skills or permissions to handle properly the classified information. In that case, the proposal may be rejected. If so, the ERCEA will explain the reasons of rejection, except when these reasons are themselves classified.\nBased on this common position, the level of classification will be determined. As a result, the ERCEA, together with all the relevant NSAs, will then verify, during preparation and implementation of the grant agreement, that all the necessary procedures and actions are put in place in order to guarantee that classified information is dealt with in the appropriate way.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Treatment of confidential data is governed by all the relevant community legislation, including the Institutions’ internal rules such as Decision 2001/844/EC amending its internal rules of procedure regarding provisions of security."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2010/767/annex/division/EUROPEAN/division/5/division/5.4/division/C",
    "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."
}