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RESEARCH AND INNOVATION Research Fund for Coal and Steel GUIDELINES FOR TECHNICAL REPORTING 1. General Information The technical reports are essential documents to the Commission and the members of the relevant Technical Group for monitoring the progress of the project. There are 4 types of technical reports, corresponding to the different stages of the project: annual report, mid-term report, draft final report, publishable report. All these reports should be distributed by the project coordinator as follows: Paper version 2 copies to the Commission They are to be sent to: European Commission 1, avenue du Bourget B - 1140 Bruxelles/Brussel For the attention of RTD D4 - Coal and Steel 1 copy to the Chairperson of the relevant Technical Group TG members may also request that paper copies of the reports be sent to them. If this is the case, this will specifically be requested to the coordinators concerned. Electronic version An electronic copy of the report should be uploaded on the Commissions platform CIRCABC, in the relevant project folder (project coordinators will receive all necessary instructions by the Commission to access this system). Project coordinators will only have access rights to their specific project subfolder. Monitoring experts and chairpersons have access rights to all project folders within their TG. Deliverables Project deliverables are part of the periodic reporting and must be included as an appendix to the reports and/or made available on CIRCABC. For deliverables which are not in the form of a written document (e.g., a new process, a new product, a web site), a description of the deliverable should be provided instead. In any case, a list of deliverables with their due date, realisation date (actual or foreseen), form and location (Annex to report or CIRCABC) should always be included in the report. Note that, for each beneficiary, the second pre-financing shall only be released upon receipt and approval of the following