1. INFSO-RI-508833 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org Second contract amendment Collaboration Board, EGEE conference, Athens Anna Cook

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 Second contract amendment, Collaboration Board, 20th April 2005 2 Before we begin…… Please take note of all your questions and keep them for the open Q&A session (agenda point 5)

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 Second contract amendment, Collaboration Board, 20th April 2005 3 Second contract amendment Undertaken following the first project review and the recommendations from the reviewers Several changes to annex 1 of the contract and to the core contract

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 Second contract amendment, Collaboration Board, 20th April 2005 4 Changes affecting the Consortium Change in reporting period: –Originally P1: 9 months, P2: 9 months, P3: 6 months –P2 and P3 have been merged into one reporting period  No periodic reporting at PM18  The official review planned at PM18 (MNA1.2) is replaced by an interim focused technical review Increase of pre-financing percentage for the second period to 85%, to cover potential cashflow issues at the end of 2005 Table 3bis is replaced with budget table for the remaining 15 months of the project (total budget – costs accepted)

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 Second contract amendment, Collaboration Board, 20th April 2005 5 Other changes The PEB have provided their plans for the next 15 months –Included in the detailed implementation plan (Annex 1, section 5) –Changes in deliverables and milestones have been recorded (concern mainly PM24 to allow more time for final reporting) Correction of outstanding errors and addition of appropriate clauses CPFs submitted for any changes in institutes. –Any further CPFs should be submitted in two signed copies by April 27 th 2005.

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 Second contract amendment, Collaboration Board, 20th April 2005 6 Consortium approval requested The Contract amendment must be endorsed by the consortium, hence by the collaboration board as official representatives of each partner in the project Are there any comments/objections/questions? Can approval be recorded officially in the minutes? Have you all signed the presence sheet?