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# 91996E0784

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 784/96 by Amedeo AMADEO to the Commission. Coordination of research and technological development policies** 
  
*Official Journal C 322 , 28/10/1996 P. 0008*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0784/96 by Amedeo Amadeo (NI) to the Commission (1 April 1996)

Subject: Coordination of research and technological development policies

A Commission communication was issued on 19 October 1994 entitled Research and Technological Development - Achieving Coordination through Cooperation (Com(94) 438 final).

In its communication, the Commission acknowledges the scarcity of funds allocated to the Union's research and technological development programmes and their fragmentation between the different levels of decision-making and recognises the need for increased coordination of the programmes in order to mitigate the harmful effects of this fragmentation and enhance the programmes' impact and effectiveness.

In view of the above, will the Commission move quickly to implement a system for the systematic exchange of information on the Union's research and technological innovation activities?

Such a system for the advance exchange of information between Member States would take the form of a network of open, easily accessed data bases recording national plans for research and innovation initiatives. Research and industry councils, partly comprising members of the CREST, would be responsible for defining the strategy, under a codecision procedure with Parliament, on the basis of the principles of efficiency and maximum openness of proceedings.

Answer given by Mrs Cresson on behalf of the Commission (22 May 1996)

In the light of the Parliamentary Resolution of 15 June 1995 ((OJ C 166, 3.7.1995. ))on the coordination of research and technological development policies (RTD), the Commission has set up a system of information exchanges on the national RTD activities via ad hoc committees consisting of those responsible in the Member States. That system targets those areas of RTD in which more coordination would prove useful and also enable early information to be provided on the initiatives and activities launched in the Member States.

The various ad hoc committees will report annually to the scientific and technical research committee (CREST) which may, on that basis, deliver recommendations on the determination of the strategic priorities of Community RTD policy and the future directions to be taken by exchanges of information on national activities. Parliament will be kept informed of the progress made in this work.

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