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right is in force, each Party concerned shall be entitled to use and to license such right without
consent of the other Parties. In case of licensing to third parties, appropriate financial compensation
will be given to the other Parties concerned.
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far as the restrictions are announced before the signature of the Funding Contract or before the
effective joining of a new party. The procedure to handle these cases will be settled in the
Consortium Agreement. Access rights granted needed for the project execution according to the
agreed work-plan are granted on a non-exclusive basis, expressly exclude any rights to sub-license
and shall be made free of any transfer costs. The procedure will be defined in the Consortium
Agreement. A Party which, having received royalty-free access rights for use of the knowledge of
another Party, and which over the period up to ten years after the end of the project has derived
substantial commercial benefit from the exploitation of such access rights shall, without prejudice to
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Party reflecting the royalties that would have been payable had the grant of access rights been on
Preferential Conditions. Access-rights to software which is knowledge or pre-existing know-how,
needed for the execution of the project shall be granted on the basis of royalty free limited source
code access upon written request, specifying the scope and duration of their application particularly
with respect to software which is pre-existing know-how.
B.3.3 External Factors influencing the impact of MEGAPOLI
Although a project of this nature is self-contained in terms of the core members and resources, it
also relies on wider international cooperation. This is viewed as the key external factor that may
influence the impact of the project. The risk is associated with one of the international partners
defaulting and not providing the local support necessary to undertake the assessments (e.g. inWP7).
It is for this reason that an extensive range of megacities has been selected as case studies. The ideal
outcome would be to undertake the assessment in all cities, although some further prioritization
may be necessary depending on the final contract negotiations. There is, however, sufficient,
tolerance to accommodate if a few external collaborators were not able to proceed. Hence any
probable risk to WP7 and 8 would be small. There would be little or no impact at all on the other
WPs.
All partners are well experienced and have a strong track record in their respective fields. For this
reason we do not expect any difficulties within the core members.
There could be a risk, that suitable meteorological conditions might not be encountered during the
Paris experiment (Work package 3). However, in the MEGAPOLI project, this risk is minimised by
the fact, that a very wide range of meteorological measurements is suitable for measurements, that
measurement periods are long, and that measurements are performed at different sites and by
mobile aircraft. At the ground based sites, measurements can be performed for virtually all weather
conditions. The aim is on measuring aerosol levels on climatological average conditions, ther is no
focus on special meteorological conditions. The long measurement period of one month in winter
and one month in summer makes it highly probable to sample a wide range of meteorological
conditions. The aircraft measurements can be performed for all wind directions, because the aircraft
can be directed, and the pollution plume be captured, in all directions of the Paris agglomeration.
Access to measurement sites is not a problem, since partner CNRS/LSCE has already frequently run
measurement programs at the urban site (LHVP). The suburban site is placed within the laboratory
of partner CNRS/LSCE, so acces is also no problem at this site.
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