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"en.20121023.13.2-229-312"2
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"In connection with the adopted report on the motion for a regulation on the financial rules applicable to the annual budget of the EU, I welcome the efforts to simplify the budgetary rules with respect to administration and financing during the different programme and project phases (submission of application, evaluation and management), from which the stakeholders should obtain primary benefit. Research is an uncertain process involving a certain amount of inherent risk, and result-based funding might limit the scope of the research projects to less risky projects and market-oriented research, which would hamper the EU in pursuing excellence and frontier research. Unfortunately, a too rigid interpretation of the Financial Regulation has in recent years created a culture of risk avoidance and a zero-trust attitude towards participants in research programmes, thus reducing the efficiency of its implementation. It is therefore important to proceed urgently with a simplification of the financial and administrative provisions relating to the framework programme and other European funding instruments. Simplification should not be regarded as an end in itself, but as a means to ensure the attractiveness and accessibility of EU research funding, and simplification measures should offer greater potential for avoiding errors. As regards operating grants in the form of lump sums or flat-rate financing, I am of the view that the rule that grants should gradually decrease should be removed."@en1
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