The members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) adopted on Wednesday 26 May the draft report on the proposal for a regulation revising the High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, EuroHPC.
The text, a source close to the dossier said, is expected to be studied during the European Parliament’s July plenary session. “It is a very consensual text; all the major political groupings are united and are moving in the same direction on this issue. There is no real political divide”, the source added.
The EuroHPC joint undertaking was launched in 2018 with a budget of €1.1 billion for the 2019-2020 period. In September 2020, the European Commission proposed a new regulation to replace Regulation (2018/1488) establishing the joint undertaking. In this new version of the regulation, it proposes that a budget of €8 billion - part of which is to come from the private sector - be allocated to this initiative for the 2021-2033 period.
EuroHPC, whose seat was inaugurated on 3 May in Luxembourg, should enable the pooling of European and national resources to deploy a network of supercomputers (see EUROPE 12106/26). The first of these was inaugurated at the end of April in Slovenia, purchased by the EU for €17.2 million (see EUROPE 12702/10).
In the EU Council, the EU Research Ministers will be asked on Friday 28 May to confirm a political agreement in principle (‘general approach’) reached at technical level on this proposed regulation. (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)