Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – Annual Report on the progress achieved by the Joint Technology Initiatives Joint Undertakings in 2010

The Joint Technology Initiatives are a novel way of realising public-private partnerships in industrial research at European level. They were established as pilots in 2007-2008 under the Seventh Framework Programme in five strategic areas – aeronautics and air transport (the Clean Sky Initiative), public health (the Innovative Medicines Initiative), fuel cell and hydrogen technologies (the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Initiative), embedded computing systems (the ARTEMIS Initiative) and nanoelectronics (the ENIAC Initiative).

Bringing together industry, the research community and the EU to define common research agendas and invest in large-scale multinational research activities, especially in times of a global economic downturn, the JTIs represent an intriguing opportunity for Europe to strengthen its competitiveness based on the principles of scientific excellence, openness and innovation.

The present annual report on the progress achieved by the Joint Technology Initiatives Joint Undertakings in 2010 is prepared after the first interim evaluations of the Joint Undertakings foreseen in Article 11(2) of their Council Regulations. It takes into account the recommendations of the experts in the interim evaluation reports and the response from the Commission, as well as the specific actions planned by the JTIs in line with these recommendations. It also considers the opinion of the European Court of Auditors expressed in the reports on the annual accounts of the JTI JUs for the financial year ended 31 December 2010.

The report starts with a brief introduction of the JTI JUs, summarises their key achievements in 2010 and outlines the fields for improvement in the future. It is accompanied by a Commission Staff Working Document containing essentially statistical information on the research activities of the JTI JUs during the year in compliance with Article 11(1) of their Council Regulations.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)190: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:190:FIN

European Commission: SWD(2012)105: Commission staff working document http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=SWD:2012:0105:FIN:EN:PDF

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