Article 6 Members
United Kingdom
Rights of members shall include:
access to ESS for its scientific community under the conditions specified in Article 17;
the right to attend and vote in meetings of the Council. However, a member shall have no vote in a matter regarding that member's termination of its membership.
The Founding Members commit to making the following contributions, cash or in-kind, towards the construction costs including the contributions for the pre-construction phase listed in Annex 4 and cash contributions for the pre-construction phase and construction phase listed in Annex 5:
| Czech Republic | 5,52 M EUR |
| The Kingdom of Denmark | 230 M EUR |
| The Federal Republic of Germany | 202,5 M EUR |
| The Republic of Estonia | 4,61 M EUR |
| The French Republic | 147 M EUR |
| The Italian Republic | 110,6 M EUR |
| Hungary | 17,6 M EUR |
| The Kingdom of Norway | 46,07 M EUR |
| The Republic of Poland | 33,2 M EUR |
| The Kingdom of Sweden | 645 M EUR |
| The Swiss Confederation | 64,5 M EUR |
All amounts refer to January 2013 prices.
The contribution of other members but Founding Members shall be in accordance with the membership contribution table that is laid down in Annex 6.
The pre-construction and construction costs include the total expenditures (personnel, costs, recurrent expenditure and capital expenditure) for the construction of ESS as specified in Annex 2. A list of approved in-kind contributions for the pre-construction phase is attached as Annex 4. A figure showing the estimated annual incidence of expenditure for construction, operation and decommissioning is included in Annex 2.
The basic rules and principles of in-kind contributions are laid down in Annex 3.
Each member shall:
pay its contribution towards the construction costs apportioned (planned amounts and schedule of payments) in the Annual budget decided in accordance with Article 9(10)(d);
contribute to the operating costs as provided for in Article 18 and to the decommissioning costs as provided for in Article 19;
if applicable, appoint one or more representing entities as mentioned in Article 3(4); and empower its representing entity with the full authority to vote on all issues raised during the Council meeting and included in the agenda.
Any resources of the Organisation, whether cash contributions or in-kind contributions shall be solely used to promote the task of the Organisation in accordance with Article 2.