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The proposals submitted following the call for proposals shall be evaluated by the Commission on the basis of the eligibility and award criteria set out in Articles 6, 7, 8 and 10. The Commission shall be assisted, in the context of the award procedure, by independent experts, whose security credentials shall be validated by Member States. Those experts shall be Union nationals from as broad a range of Member States as possible and shall be selected on the basis of calls for applications with a view to establishing a database of candidates. The committee referred to in Article 13 shall be informed on an annual basis of the list of experts in the database, to be transparent as to the credentials of the experts. The Commission shall also ensure that experts do not evaluate, advise or assist on matters with regard to which they have a conflict of interests.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.