Article 9 ECRIN-ERIC activities

represent the Scientific Partners of ECRIN-ERIC, and shall have an advisory role for the Assembly of Members and the Director-General;

be composed of one senior Delegate of each Scientific Partner from Member and Observer countries, whereas an Extended Network Committee also includes one senior Delegate of each Scientific Partner from countries that are neither Member nor Observer. The ECRIN-ERIC Director-General shall attend the meetings of the Network Committee. The ECRIN-ERIC Management Office shall act as the Secretariat for the Network Committee;

under the direction of the Assembly of Members coordinate the policies, procedures, tools and practices across the Scientific Partners, make proposals to the ECRIN-ERIC Director-General to optimise the quality and efficiency of services, and monitor the performance of the ECRIN-ERIC Scientific Partners to ensure the high quality of service provision;

on request of the ECRIN-ERIC Director-General assist in the preparation of annual strategic documents including the pluri-annual work plan and annual budgets to submitted by the ECRIN-ERIC Director-General to the Assembly of Members;

in an extended composition, support the coordinated implementation, at national level, of decisions, strategies, rules, and procedures set out by the ECRIN-ERIC Director-General and the Assembly of Members in the pluri-annual work plan;

upon request of the Assembly of Members make recommendations for the nomination or revocation of the ECRIN-ERIC Director-General;

upon request of the ECRIN-ERIC Director-General make recommendations on the capability of candidate Partners;

be consulted by the ECRIN-ERIC Director-General for the nomination of the members of the Scientific Board;

convene a face-to-face meeting at least twice a year;

elect a Chair who will call, prepare and organise the Network Committee meetings, and a Vice-Chair. They shall hold office for three years renewable and attend the meetings of the Assembly of Members, without voting rights;

Additional details in relation to the general operational procedures of the Network Committee are set out in the Rules of Internal Procedure.

select and prioritise the clinical projects supported by ECRIN-ERIC and evaluate submitted projects through defined acceptance criteria and rules of access to services for the academic and industry scientific community, as agreed upon by the Assembly of Members;

be composed of a minimum of four members, with a majority of external members (not involved in the governance of ECRIN-ERIC), appointed by the ECRIN-ERIC Director-General upon recommendation of the Network Committee, and approved by the Assembly of Members. They shall be appointed for a three years renewable period and make decisions based on the assessment by external scientific experts in the relevant field.