Article 9 Contributions

Contributions by the Contracting Parties shall cover the costs of running the seven waves of the Survey in each country plus coordination and common costs such as the costs for updating the design, disseminating the data associated with the seven waves of data collection, and budgets for the Coordinator, the Area Coordinators, and the Scientific Monitoring Board.

Contributions by the Contracting Parties shall cover four types of costs: (A) survey costs in each country, (B) operating costs to run the survey in each country, (C) coordination costs, and (D) other common costs to the extent that these costs are not covered by other funding sources. A table showing preliminary estimates of these costs during Phase I is attached as Annex 3.

Each Contracting Party shall make available to the SHARE-ERIC, either directly or through the Scientific Partner Institution for which it is responsible, funds covering the Country’s share of the survey costs (Column A of the preliminary estimates in Annex 3).

Each Contracting Party shall make available to the Scientific Partner Institution for which it is responsible funds covering the Country’s share of the operating costs (Column B of the preliminary estimates in Annex 3).

The Federal Republic of Germany shall finance the coordination costs of the Survey (Column C of the preliminary estimates in Annex 3).

Each Contracting Party shall make contributions to the SHARE-ERIC for the part of the other common costs of the Survey that is not covered by any other funding source. Each Contracting Party’s share shall be in proportion to the gross national income per capita most recently reported by Eurostat with the proviso that no Contracting Party’s share shall be smaller than 0,5 times and larger than 1,5 times the average share. The composition of the other common costs shall be detailed in the annual spending plan (Column D of the preliminary estimates in Annex 3).

The SHARE-ERIC or the Scientific Partner Institutions, as a consortium, may react to calls from the European Commission, the U.S. National Institute on Aging, and other supranational and national funding organisations providing funds for the project as a whole, among those parts or all of the common costs mentioned in Column D, Annex 3.