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| 3.4.2004 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | CE 84/280 |

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(2004/C 84 E/0326)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3995/03

by Raffaele Costa (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(7 January 2004)

Subject:   Projects relating to the information society

An action was proposed, under the fifth framework programme for research, relating to measurements and tests, with five calls for proposals over the period July 1999 to March 2002, to be covered by a total budget of EUR 46 million.

Can the Commission supply the names and nationalities of the successful candidates, and state the number of projects rejected and the grounds for rejection? Can it also state whether the results obtained have been verified?

Answer given by Mr Busquin on behalf of the Commission

(16 February 2004)

The ‘Competitive and sustainable growth’ specific programme (5th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (RTD) 1998-2002) generated over 2 400 contracts of which 245 were in the Generic Activity Measurements and Testing.

The Honourable Member's question relates to the five dedicated calls published in the Generic Activity Measurements and Testing with an indicative budget of EUR 47 million.

In total, 75 projects with a total Community contribution of EUR 56 million have been funded as a result of the five consecutive dedicated calls of the 5th Framework Programme for RTD. Details of all the projects are given in the projects database on the Cordis website (http://www.cordis.lu).

Sixty proposals have not received funding either because the independent evaluators judged them to be of insufficient quality or because a competing proposal for the same topic was judged to be of better quality.

Most of the contracts are still active and the outcome will be included in an on-going exercise that is examining the results and the socio-economic impact of finished projects from the Competitive and Sustainable Growth programme.

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