UK could face more delays to rejoining the EU’s £84bn scheme despite looming Brexit deal

Peter Mason, who leads global research and innovation policy at Universities UK, told Science Business: “If an agreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol is reached, the UK’s financial contribution to the Horizon budget will need to be renegotiated before UK association can be confirmed, to reflect the fact that the UK Government has been funding UK participation in the programme over the last two years.”

For instance, the UK may want to renegotiate the originally intended administration costs, which it envisaged would rise annually from 0.5 percent of its total contribution in 2021 to 3 percent by 2026.

However, the UK might want to only pay an administration fee of 0.5 percent from 2023 as it has been blocked for two years

But the Commission may want the UK to pay a share of Horizon administration costs, even for the years Britain was not associated, due to researchers still applying for European Research Council grants (ERC).

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