Consortium Agreement of the Specific Targeted Research Project

CAST Consortium Agreement [26-06-2006]CAST CONSORTIUM AGREEMENTPart IThis AGREEMENT is made in June 2006BETWEEN(1) Institut Belge pour la Sécurité Routière asbl, IBSR/BIVV, Belgium(2) Transportøkonomisk Institutt, TØI, Norway(3) Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité, INRETS, France(4) Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, VTI, Sweden(5) Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen, BASt, Germany(6) Danish Transport Research Institute, DTF, Denmark(7) FACTUM Chaloupka & Risser OHG, FACTUM, Austria(8) Hasselt University, Transportation Research Institute, IMOB, Belgium(9) Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, Min. of Transport NL,Netherlands(10) Prevenção Rodoviária Portuguesa, PRP, Portugal(11) Instytut Badawczy Dróg I mostów, IBDiM, Poland(12) Stichting Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Verkeersveiligheid, SWOV, Netherlands(13) Swiss Council for Accident Prevention, Bfu, Switzerland(14) Centrum Dopravního Výzkumu, CDV, Czech Republic(15) University of Thessaly, UTh, Greece(16) University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts, ULFF, Slovenia(17) Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências , ISEC, Portugal(18) Raadet for Stoerre Faerdselssikkerhed, RfSF, Denmark(19) Società Italiana di psicologie della Sicurezza Viaria, SIPSiVi, Italyrelating to the Project entitled "Campaigns and Awareness-raising Strategies in Trafficsafety – CAST"WHEREAS:(A)(B)The Parties, having considerable experience in the field concerned, have submitteda Proposal for a Project entitled "Campaigns and Awareness-raising Strategies inTraffic safety – CAST" to the Commission in the Sixth Research And TechnologicalDevelopment Framework ProgrammeThe Parties wish to specify or supplement, between themselves, the provisions ofthe EU Contract in line with Article II.3.1(b) of the EU Contract and wish to laydown general rules related to the management of the Project and their agreementswith respect to, including but not limited to, liability.NOW THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY AGREED AS FOLLOWS:1. This Consortium Agreement shall come into force as of the date of its signature bythe Parties but shall have retroactive effect as from 01-02-2006 and, in case ofParties signing a Declaration of Accession from the date of the Declaration of- Page 2 of 28 -