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1. The Technical Committee shall be composed as follows:

(a) up to four Commission representatives and Union bodies, as decided by the representatives of the Union in the Governing Board;

(b) one representative from each member other than the Union;

(c) one representative of the EASA.

2. The Technical Committee shall be co-chaired by a representative of the founding members, rotating on a two-yearly basis, and the Commission. It shall report to the Governing Board and its secretariat shall be provided by the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking.

3. The Executive Director shall be a permanent observer in the Technical Committee. Representatives of the states’ representatives group and the European Clean Aviation Scientific Advisory Body may attend as observers upon invitation of the chair, or on their own request, in which case their attendance shall be subject to the agreement of the chair and the Joint Undertaking’s representatives.

4. The Technical Committee shall propose its rules of procedure and shall submit them for adoption by the Governing Board.

5. The Technical Committee shall develop and maintain the technological roadmap and strategy of the programme. It shall propose and prepare for adoption by the Governing Board, as appropriate, the scope and programming of the research actions, the technical strategy and the overall research roadmap of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking. A Governing Board member may be delegated to follow the activities therein.

6. The Technical Committee shall carry out the following tasks:

(a) prepare proposals for the amendment of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda as needed for deliberation and final decision by the Governing Board;

(b) prepare proposals for the technical priorities and research actions to be included in the work programme and the research topics for open calls for proposals;

(c) provide information on research actions planned or in progress at national, regional or other non-Union levels and make recommendations on the actions necessary to maximise possible synergies of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking’s programme;

(d) propose for deliberation and final decision by the Governing Board revisions or optimisation of the technical scope of the programme in order to align the work programme and the objectives of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking with the overall Horizon Europe and other European partnerships’ related work programmes, as identified in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda;

(e) make recommendations on maximising the impact in line with the European Green Deal objectives and the potential market uptake of the programme’s results from indirect actions funded by the Joint Undertaking.