During this meeting, in addition to operational implementation the  administrative  and  financial  matters  related  to  contract  implementation will be discussed.  2 Interim meetings (1-5):  physical meeting in Parma  –  one/half day 6  / teleconference  To discuss / review progress  3, 6, 12, 18, 24 months  from kick off meeting  3 Final meeting: physical meeting in Parma  –  one/half day 7  / teleconference To discuss / review final outputs  30 months from kick off  meeting  No. Payments  Linked to EFSA  approval of deliverable  No.  1  Interim payment 1 of 20 % 1  2  Interim payment 2 of 40%  2 and 3 3  Payment of the balance of 40% of the interim payment  4  The working language for contract implementation including execution of tasks, meetings  and deliverables shall be English. Any written deliverables must be to a high standard of  English which does not require proof reading. As regards any product or delivery commissioned by EFSA and developed by the contractor  in the context of the contract resulting from this call for tenders, as well as source codes  of IT applications and models developed for EFSA, the intellectual property rights will be  owned by EFSA only in its capacity as financial source of the contract. The contractor  cannot file a trademark, patent, copyright or other IPR protection scheme in relation to  any of the results or rights obtained by EFSA in performance of the contract, unless the  contractor requests EFSA ex-ante authorisation and obtains from EFSA a written consent  in this regard. 1.5 OWNERSHIP, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, USE OF RESULTS 6  One day = 8 hours, half day = 4 hours  7 1.4 INFORMATION ON THE CONTRACT Nature of expense services  Type of contract  direct  Place of performance: contractor ’s  premises 30 months from kick-off meeting. The maximum budget EFSA has available is 250 000  €.  Any offer exceeding this maximum  will be excluded from further assessment during evaluation. Duration of tasks in direct contract  Budget information 8 