1. All appeals filed by the plaintiffs are dismissed.

2. The plaintiffs are responsible for the total costs of the lawsuit following the filing of a lawsuit.

The court's explanation about this case is as follows, except for the modification or deletion of part of the judgment of the court of first instance under Article 8 (2) of the Administrative Litigation Act and Article 420 of the Civil Procedure Act. Thus, the court's explanation about this case is cited as it is in accordance with Article 8 (2) of the

(The grounds alleged in the first instance court in the appeal by the Plaintiff are not significantly different from the contents alleged by the Plaintiffs in the first instance court, and even if all the evidence submitted in the first instance court were examined, the first instance court’s determination rejecting the Plaintiffs’ assertion is justifiable). The part of “ judgment on the defense prior to the draft of the second instance” among the grounds of the first instance judgment in theO for the amendment or deletion part (Articles 10 to 4, 18) is deleted.

O The decision on the merits of Part 19 of Part 4 of the first instance judgment is amended to "the decision on the merits of Part 2", and the "4. conclusion" of Part 10 of the first instance judgment to "3. conclusion", respectively.

O Forms 16 through 21 of the 8th judgment of the first instance shall be amended as follows:

[1) Article 17(1)2 of the former Regulations on the Management, etc. of National Research and Development Projects (amended by Presidential Decree No. 25779, Nov. 28, 2014; hereinafter “National Research and Development Project Regulations”) which regulates matters necessary for the management, etc. of national research and development projects pursuant to the Framework Act on Science and Technology on the delegation of the Framework Act on Science and Technology may suspend research and development where the scores fall short of 60% of the full scores as a result of an interim evaluation conducted by the managing research institute participating in national research and development projects according to the absolute evaluation method (Article 17(1)2), and where such suspension of research and development is taken, “reasonable measures, such as the suspension of the execution of research expenses and on-site investigation, etc.” (Article 11(2) and (1)5), and further,

(Article 11(1)(5) is defined as "Article 11(5)."

b) the Commission;