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The booklet includes both the draft Decisions, for the Fifth Framework Programme and the associated Euratom Framework Programme, and an explanatory memorandum. It gives details of the Commission's proposals regarding the aims and objectives of Community research, and its proposals for the number and structure of the specific RTD programmes within the Programme. The publication explains how, under the proposal, the Commission has maintained its earlier ideas on concentrating European research efforts. Copies of the booklet are available in English, French and German. The conferences were aimed at improving general awareness of the economic and marketing importance of the patent system, and exploring the relationship between research and the actual transfer of research results to new products.