Year 1 Progress Report & Cost Statements submitted to EC - 17 March 2004 Receipt acknowledged by EC but no other feedback

24% of total €1.8m budget spent in Year 1.

Personnel expenditure - 36% of 3 year budget

Travel expenditure – 25% of 3 year budget

Subcontract & ‘Other’ expenditure – 2% of 3 year budget

New Project Officer ‘Ulrich Karock’ assigned to evitherm

No indication yet of when Year 2 advance payment will be made – hopefully in May!

8 New members officially accepted into evitherm project Assotec - WP1 and WP2

SciTe B.V. – WP1 and WP2

Nestle – WP3

Daimler Chrysler – WP3

EADS – WP3

Testo – WP3

Hot Disk – WP4 (in place of TNO)

AIPT – WP6

+ Nutrifreeze – exiting WP3 member – now also in WP2

Air Products (WP 3) requested to resign from project on 5 April

EC agreed remaining budget for Air Products can be reallocated to PTB for activities in WP3

RA chasing Air Products to get formal letter of withdrawal from project. This, together with revised CPFs for Air Products and PTB and updated WP3 text for DoW needed by EC to formalise the change in contract

SP (existing WP4 member) to be given budget to coordinate the Scandinavian and Baltic region in the framework of WP3

Revised CPF sent to EC

Awaiting official approval of this contract change

Budget available for additional new members

WP1 – 1 new member

WP3 – 1 new member

WP6 – 1 new member

Budgets available for ‘invited participants’ (T&S costs only) in all WPs (except WP2) – See DoW for details

The Mid-Term Report should:

Provide a critical overview of the project achievements against planned objectives (milestones, deliverables). It must NOT be a repetition of the 12 month Progress Report

Cover the entire project up to the mid-term assessment

Be 20-25 pages in length

Mid Term Report and Assessment Meeting

Target dates agreed with Ulrich Karock:

Basic draft Mid-Term Report by early August

Mid-Term Assessment meeting (at NPL) early September*

Final Mid-Term Report by end of September

* SG members to advise RA of dates in early September when they are available to attend the M-T meeting

Extension to deadline for Mid-Term Assessment Report/Meting requested because of:

Revised launch date of evitherm ‘Free Access’ website – now planned for end of June 2004 (reported in 12 month Progress Report)

AND

To provide extra time to develop an appropriate constitution and business plan for the ELE

Based on this report and discussions at the Mid-Term Assessment meeting, the Commission will:

Decide on the continuation, modification or termination of the project !

It is therefore essential that we achieve all stated Mid-Term milestones (see DoW and 12 Month Report for details)

In particular we must:

Launch the Free-access website by end of June 2004

Show progress towards the pay for access website

Deliver an ELE constitution and business plan that achieves sign-up by a majority of evitherm project members (Target is 75%) and is acceptable by the EC