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# 91998E1624

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 1624/98 by Amedeo AMADEO to the Commission. Fifth framework programme for RTDD (budget for implementation)** 
  
*Official Journal C 031 , 05/02/1999 P. 0062*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1624/98

by Amedeo Amadeo (NI) to the Commission

(27 May 1998)

Subject: Fifth framework programme for RTDD (budget for implementation)

With regard to document COM(97) 439 final - 97/0119 COD-97/0120 CNS(1), and with reference to "key actions" can the Commission:

1. Retain in every key action an appropriate margin of resources for demonstration activities, innovations and SMEs to support the impetus to the market given by research and innovation;

2. Integrate and, as a result, rationalize the contents of the proposed key actions by adjusting them appropriately, where possible, within the thematic programmes indicated by the Commission;

3. Identify ten key actions relating to the Community framework RTDD programme and one for the Euratom framework programme and give them financial resources of a sufficient critical mass, absorption capacity, and a high level of scientific research and a high profile;

4. Make the allocation of financial resources to key actions dependent upon the results obtained and verified so as to avoid five years of stagnation and the "forced" financing of RTDD activities at a low standard of technology and innovation;

5. Provide modern, simple and transparent administrative machinery ensuring that administrative expenditure and time spent are restricted by assignment of specific responsibilities, restricted levels of bureaucracy and decision-making, and reserving joint decision-making only for the highest levels of the Commissioners concerned?

(1) OJ C 291, 25.9.1997, pp. 15-16.

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