# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1478 of 19 August 2015 on setting up the European Spallation Source as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (European Spallation Source ERIC) (Text with EEA relevance), Article 6: Members

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Rights of members shall include:
(a) access to ESS for its scientific community under the conditions specified in Article 17;
(b) 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.
2. 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.
3. Each member shall:
(a) 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);
(b) contribute to the operating costs as provided for in Article 18 and to the decommissioning costs as provided for in Article 19;
(c) 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.
4. 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2015/1478/annex/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-1478/annex/article-6
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