WRITTEN QUESTION E-0319/02 by Giles Chichester (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Preparations for the European Council meeting in Barcelona.
Date: 2002-02-12
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: European Council, Spain, innovation, research policy

C 160 E/208

Official Journal of the European Communities

EN

4.7.2002

when the contamination was detected on 18 January 2002 and when the concerned poultry holdings were
identified on 22 January 2002. Samples taken from the remaining slaughtered chickens contained levels of
PCBs below the national maximum level of 200 µg/kg fat for poultry meat with the exception of one result
(438 µg/kg fat).

Intensive controls at all stages of the food chain are necessary to enable early detection of a contamination,
but it has to be acknowledged that when production cycles are short or contamination occurs shortly
before consumption of the food, limited quantities of possibly contaminated food may have reached the
consumer. As regards dioxins, the Commission is developing guidelines for monitoring at all stages of the
food chain, including frequency of sampling.

(2002/C 160 E/267)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0319/02

by Giles Chichester (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(12 February 2002)

Subject: Preparations for the European Council meeting in Barcelona

The 2000 Lisbon European Council called on the Council and the Commission, together with the Member
States where appropriate to ‘introduce by June 2001 a European innovation scoreboard’. Does the
Commission believe that this target will be met, and what evidence can it advance in support of its view?

Answer given by Mr Liikanen on behalf of the Commission

(18 March 2002)

An initial version of
the European Innovation Scoreboard was published as an annex to the
Communication ‘Innovation in a knowledge-driven economy’ adopted by the Commission on
20 September 2000 (1).

The 2001 version of the European Innovation Scoreboard was adopted on 14 September 2001 (2). The
Member of the Commission responsible for Enterprises and Information Society presented this document
at a press conference on 1 October 2001 (3). The scoreboard prompted considerable media interest (more
than 60 press articles worldwide) and was debated by the Industry Council on 5 December 2001.

The 2002 version of the European Innovation Scoreboard is currently under preparation. It will present
updated national figures, include data from the candidate countries where available, and take into account
the regional dimension of innovation.

The European Innovation Scoreboard is produced under the ‘European Trend Chart on Innovation’. This
project supports the open co-ordination approach launched at the European Council at Lisbon (23 and
24 March 2000). It is executed under the Fifth Framework Programme on Research and Technological
Development by the ‘Innovation and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)’ programme and offers
yearly country reports, topical policy workshops and a database of more than 600 ongoing innovation
policy measures from all Member States to enhance the exchange of experience between innovation policy
makers in Europe (4).

(1) COM(2000) 567 final.
(2) Commission Staff Working Paper SEC(2001) 1414.
(3) The scoreboard can be downloaded in all Community languages from http://www.cordis.lu/innovation-smes/
scoreboard/. Special issues of the ‘Innovation & Technology Transfer Newsletter’ and of ‘Cordis News’, dedicated to
the scoreboard, as well as the press briefing of the Member of the Commission responsible for Enterprises and
Information Society are also available from this website.

(4) See www.cordis.lu/trendchart.