
Article 1 
Decision 2008/721/EC is amended as follows:

1.. in Article 19, the first paragraph is replaced by the following:
'Members of the Scientific Committees, scientific advisors from the Pool and external experts shall be entitled to an indemnity for their participation, in person or from a distance by electronic means, in the meetings of the committees, thematic workshops, working groups and other meetings and events organised by the Commission, and for serving as Rapporteur on a specific question, as provided for in Annex III.';
2.. Annex III is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Done at Brussels, 3 June 2010.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX


ANNEX III  1. 

((a)) in the case of participation in person, EUR 385 for each day in which they were present;
((b)) in the case of participation from distance, EUR 100 for every begun hour of attendance, with a ceiling of:

((i)) EUR 385 for attendance over a morning and an afternoon; and
((ii)) EUR 195 for attendance over a morning or an afternoon;
 2. 

((a)) the indemnity shall be modulated, depending on the workload related to the complexity of the matter, the length of the period needed to complete the opinion, the amount and accessibility of data and scientific literature and information to be collected and processed and the extent and complexity of public and stakeholder consultations and contacts with other bodies, in light of the following indicative criteria:

Amount Indicative criteria
EUR 385 
— Simple and routine issue
— Opinion based on examination of a dossier, with limited data search and limited literature examination
— No public consultation
— No more than five months between first and last meeting
EUR 770 
— Complex issue
— Opinion based on significant data and literature search and examination
— Stakeholder and/or public consultation with limited feedback examination workload
— From five to nine months between the first and the last meeting
EUR 1 155 
— Very complex issue
— Need for very extensive data and literature search and analysis
— Extensive and complex consultations with stakeholder, the public and other scientific bodies, with important feedback to be examined
— More than nine months between the first and the last meeting
((b)) in each specific case, on the basis of the criteria mentioned in point (a), the Commission shall indicate in the request for an opinion which of the amounts for the indemnity of the Rapporteur applies. The choice of the applicable amount may be modified by the Commission during the preparatory work for the requested opinion if that is justified by unforeseen changes in relation to the relevant criteria.

