[Uni-verse] Status of the consortium agreement

[Gert Svensson]

Some time ago I recived the following email from the administration of 
the Fraunhofer Institute.
The changes proposed is not substantial but they suggest another model 
of distributing the prefinancing.

I'm however concerned that this would delay the completion of the 
agreement. 
I had to get back to my lawyers to discuss a new model and I would guess 
that you would have to do the same.
This would take some time. This would mean that the signature would take 
place during the summer holidays and
could take considerable time. My estimate is that this would mean that 
the agreement would be completed in end august.

I am told that the pre financing will come any day from the commission now.
Without the signed consortium agreement we cannot distribute that to the 
partners.

I have send the same message to the Fraunhofer institute but I have not 
recived any reply yet.

Best Regards
Gert

> From: Rüdiger Dorner <ruediger.dorner@zv.fraunhofer.de>
> Date: Mon May 31, 2004  21:28:55 Europe/Amsterdam
> To: uni-verse-admin@blender.org
> Cc: Volker Luckas <volker.luckas@igd.fraunhofer.de>, Grit 
> Heina-Hoebel  <grit.heina-hoebel@igd.fraunhofer.de>, Sascha Schneider  
> <Sascha.Schneider@igd.fraunhofer.de>
> Subject: Uni-Verse Consortium Agreement
>
> Dear Mr. Svensson,
>
> Thank you very much for providing us with your current draft  
> consortium agreement regarding the Uni-Verse Project. This is to  
> inform you that we agree with your last draft, version 4, 2004-04-14,  
> except with the provisons regarding the distribution of the  
> prefinancing in Art. 6.2. Please understand that we are not in a  
> position to accept rules which lead to a situation where Fraunhofer  
> would be forced to prefinance its expenses. We are a non-profit  
> organisation and as such we feel necessary to get 100 % or nearly the  
> full amount which is received by KTH from the Commission concerning  
> Fraunhofer´s share of the amount of any prefinancing.
>
> In conclusion we suggest that with respect to all periods (first  
> tranche and any subsequent tranche) where a prefinancing will be paid  
> by the Commission to your bank account you should forward an amount 
> of  at least 85 % of our share of this prefinancing to our account. 
> The  remaining 15 % should be paid after receipt of the concerned 
> project  deliverables and following the Commission´s approval of such 
> project  deliverables. The balance of the last 15 % should be due upon 
> receipt  of the project deliverables, however only in cases where 
> deliverables  have to be submitted at all. In cases where any 
> partipant is not  obliged to provide a deliverable the balance must be 
> paid
> immediately after expiry of the twelve months period.
>
> Finally, I would like to inform you that Fraunhofer-IGD is a public  
> body in the sense of the Model Contract. Should you need any proof  
> thereof please let me know. In such case I would provide you with  
> documents giving proof to this issue.
>
> In case of any queries please do not hesitate to contact me. I do  
> apologize for not having responded earlier, however due to some  
> business trips of our project leader it was not possible to combine  
> the legal and technical point of view regarding the current draft  
> consortium agreement.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Rüdiger Dorner
> Head of Department
>  
>
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