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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would first of all like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Alyssandrakis, and all the Members who contributed to the preparation of this resolution.
On behalf of the Commission, I can assure you that we welcome this parliamentary resolution, in that it stresses the importance of politically consolidating the Commission’s analysis regarding, amongst other things, the strategic and economic role of space and the need to reinforce European investments and the status of the European space industry and to develop new approaches to space policy.
As you are aware, on 2 December, the Council of Ministers for Research adopted a resolution calling upon the Commission to draw up a European space strategy together with the European Space Agency. This strategy will have to be submitted to the Council for evaluation before the end of the year.
Yesterday, I sent a note to the Commission reviewing the progress of the work. You will remember that this work is carried out by a group made up of representatives of the Space Agency, representatives of the various Commission directorates concerned and also representatives of industry and the WEU. This group has already met several times and will meet again in July. The information memo which will be sent to you will inform you as to the state of progress of the work. The drawing up of a European space strategy is of universal relevance and it must serve as a basis for the decisions scheduled for the end of 2000 on the Galileo programme, more explicitly, and for the debate already underway on security and the environment, which should lead to initiatives whose importance is noted in the motion for a parliamentary resolution.
I feel that the dialogue which we have embarked upon with the European Space Agency is fully in line with a wider-ranging communication which we are shortly to discuss in connection with another report, the dynamic of a European research area. In my opinion, the thrust of the two measures is very similar, for we are trying to achieve synergy between all of Europe’s potential so that it can take as full and extensive a place as possible in tomorrow’s world.
I therefore welcome the debate which has just taken place, which, as I said before, lends political support to the Commission’s analysis. In the next few months, with the support of Parliament, the European Council and the ESA Council, for we want to work in tandem, we should have a benchmark for future space activities. As the report stressed, these are essential."@en1
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