Besluit 2017/1324 - Deelname van de Unie aan een door verscheidene lidstaten gezamenlijk opgezet partnerschap voor onderzoek en innovatie in het Middellandse Zeegebied (het Prima-initiatief) - Hoofdinhoud

Inhoudsopgave

Samenvatting van Wetgeving
Wettekst

1. Samenvatting van Wetgeving

Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (‘PRIMA’)

SUMMARY OF:

Decision (EU) 2017/1324 approving the EU’s participation in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)

WHAT IS THE AIM OF THIS DECISION?

It approves the EU’s participation in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA), an initiative involving a number of EU countries as well as several countries in the Mediterranean area.

KEY POINTS

Participating countries

Currently the ‘participating states’ are: Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey.

Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco are expected to join PRIMA once they conclude international agreements for scientific and technological cooperation with the EU setting out the terms and conditions of their participation in PRIMA.

Other countries (both EU and non-EU) will be able to join at a later stage, provided they fulfill the conditions for participation in PRIMA.

Objectives

The idea behind PRIMA is to pool the knowledge and financial resources of the EU and the participating states to build research and innovation capacities and develop knowledge and joint innovative solutions for agro-food systems in the Mediterranean area.

The main objectives are to:

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make the agro-food systems and integrated water provision and management more climate resilient, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally and socially sustainable;
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contribute to solving water scarcity, food security, nutrition, health, well-being and migration problems upstream.

Management and organisation

The programme will be managed by an implementation structure, known as PRIMA-IS, based in Barcelona. PRIMA-IS will receive the EU’s financial contribution and be responsible for implementing PRIMA and monitoring the projects that it finances, as well as the projects that are funded by the participating states.

PRIMA will operate on the basis of annual work plans that it adopts, after the approval of the European Commission.

Approximately 25% of the PRIMA-IS funding is intended to finance the research work of bodies (e.g. universities, research institutions, companies, etc.) in the non-EU participating states. Information about the activities receiving support from PRIMA will be publicly available.

Budget

The EU will contribute up to €220 million from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework programme. The participating states will contribute financially or in-kind at least €220 million during the period from 7 August 2017 to 31 December 2028.

FROM WHEN DOES THE DECISION APPLY?

It has applied since 7 August 2017.

BACKGROUND

For more information, see:

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The PRIMA initiative (European Commission).

MAIN DOCUMENT

Decision (EU) 2017/1324 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2017 on the participation of the Union in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) jointly undertaken by several Member States (OJ L 185, 18.7.2017, pp. 1-15)

2. Wettekst

Besluit (EU) 2017/1324 van het Europees Parlement en de Raad van 4 juli 2017 betreffende de deelname van de Unie aan een door verscheidene lidstaten gezamenlijk opgezet partnerschap voor onderzoek en innovatie in het Middellandse Zeegebied (het Prima-initiatief)