ANNEX II

ANNEX II

INDICATIVE BREAKDOWN AMONG PROGRAMMES

The indicative breakdown among programmes is as follows (in EUR million):

³³ Including Joint Technology Initiatives (including financial plan, etc) and the part of the coordination and international cooperation activities to be funded within the themes.

³³ The aim will be to enable at least 15% of the funding available under the "Cooperation" part of the programme to go to SMEs.

Special provisions concerning the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF)

The indicative budgets for the specific programmes "Cooperation" and "Capacities" include contributions to the European Investment Bank for the constitution of the "Risk-Sharing Finance Facility" referred to in Annex III. The Council decisions adopting the contributing specific programmes will establish, inter alia, the implementing modalities under which the Commission will decide on the reallocation to other activities of the framework programme of the Community contribution to RSFF and income it generates, not used by the EIB.

The Framework programme will  contribute an amount of up to 1 billion EURO to RSFF which  is to be matched by an equivalent amount from the EIB. It will come from the specific programmes "Cooperation" (up to 800 million EUR by proportional contribution of all thematic priorities, except socio-economic research) and "Capacities" (up to 200 million EUR from the research infrastructure line).

The amount will be made available progressively to the EIB taking account of the level of demand.

In order to ensure a rapid launch with a critical mass of resources, an amount of the order of 500 million EUR will be progressively allocated in the budget for a period up to the interim evaluation of the 7th framework programme, referred to in Article 7.2 of the present Decision. The results of the interim evaluation will be taken into account when allocating the amount for the remainder of the period.