4. Company (or, if applicable: members of the consortium)
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 The information provided here will be used to judge the operational capacity and the best value for money of subcontracts. Please make sure that you do not include information here that relates to the headings under sections 1 to 3. Experts will be instructed to ignore any information here which appears to have been included to circumvent page limits applying to those sections.
4.1. Participants (applicants)
Please provide for each participant, the following:

•	a description of the legal entity and its main tasks, with an explanation of how its profile matches the tasks in the proposal;
•	a curriculum vitae or description of the profile of the persons, including their gender, who will be primarily responsible for carrying out the proposed activities;
•	a brief description of relevant products, services (including widely used datasets or software) or other achievements (which may also include previous projects or activities connected to the subject of the proposal);
•	a description of significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment relevant to the proposed work;

4.2. Third parties involved in the project (including subcontracting and use of third party resources)

Please complete, for your company, or for consortia, each participant, the following table (or simply state "No third parties involved", if applicable):
Do you plan to subcontract any tasks?
If yes, describe and justify the tasks to be subcontracted and please fill in also the table 4.	Y/N	
Will any of your linked third parties work in the action tasks? 
If yes, describe the third party, the link of the participant to the third party, and describe and justify the foreseen tasks to be performed by the third party.	Y/N	
Will you use contributions in kind provided by third parties?
If yes, describe the third party's contributions.	Y/N	

Assessment of the best value for money 
Experts assess the 'best value for money' of subcontracts during the evaluation of the proposal. 
For this, subcontracts have to be described in sufficient detail.
•	If you know the subcontractor, include the key information on the subcontract in the proposal (name of subcontractor, price and task), together with the action task(s) that will be subcontracted and an explanation on how the subcontractor and the price are appropriate. This option is to be used when you have already selected a subcontractor for a task; normally, after following a competitive procedure.  
•	If you do not know the subcontractor, your proposal should set out the task(s) to be subcontracted, the estimated budget and the procedure you will follow to ensure the best value for money. Normally, this option is to be used when you have not selected yet a subcontractor for a task.

Subcontracts (Article 13 of the Grant Agreement) concern the implementation of action tasks; they imply the implementation of specific tasks which are part of the action and are described in Annex 1.
Linked third party (Article 14 of the Grant Agreement) is an affiliated entity or has a legal link to a participant implying a collaboration not limited to the action.1
Contributions in kind provided by third parties (Article 11 and 12 of the Grant Agreement): Third parties contributing in kind make available some of their resources to a beneficiary without this being their economic activity (i.e. seconding personnel, contributing equipment, infrastructure or other assets, or other goods and services). 1

If you said yes to the subcontracting of tasks, describe in the table below each of the tasks to be subcontracted. 

Table 4
Number	Work Package Number	Task to be subcontracted*	Justification of the 'best value for money'**
If you know the subcontractor: explanation why the subcontractor and the price are appropriate.
If you don't know the subcontractor:  procedure you will follow to ensure best value for money	Name of subcontractor if known	Amount*** (EUR)	

						
*    Note that the task to be subcontracted has to be described in section "description of work" of table 3.a "Work Package description"
** Justify per subcontract (i.e subcontracted task or subcontractor). Bear in mind that assurance can only be given on subcontracts that are described in sufficient detail in the proposal. 
***Total amount has to match the total amount indicated in Column C (Direct costs of sub-contracting/€), Part A (Proposal submission form), Section 3 (Budget for the proposal) 

5. Ethics and security 
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5.1 Ethics
 For more guidance, see the document "How to complete your ethics self-assessment".
If you have entered any ethics issues in the ethical issue table in the administrative proposal forms, you must:
•	submit an ethics self-assessment, which:
o	describes how the proposal meets the national legal and ethical requirements of the country or countries where the tasks raising ethical issues are to be carried out;
o	explains in detail how you intend to address the issues in the ethical issues table, in particular as regards:
•	research objectives (e.g. study of vulnerable populations, dual use, etc.) 
•	research methodology (e.g. clinical trials, involvement of children and related consent procedures, protection of any data collected, etc.)
•	the potential impact of the research (e.g. dual use issues, environmental damage, stigmatisation of particular social groups, political or financial retaliation, benefit-sharing, misuse, etc.).
•	provide the documents that you need under national law(if you already have them), e.g.:
o	an ethics committee opinion;
o	the document notifying activities raising ethical issues or authorising such activities
 If these documents are not in English, you must also submit an English summary of them (containing, if available, the conclusions of the committee or authority concerned).
 If you plan to request these documents specifically for the project you are proposing, your request must contain an explicit reference to the project title.

5.2 Security
Please indicate if your action will involve:
• Activities or results raising security issues: (YES/NO)
• 'EU-classified information' as background or results: (YES/NO)