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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Busquin, as rapporteur on the sixth RDFP, I should first like to say how pleased I am to see the deadlines for the adoption of the specific programmes being respected. This will allow the broad guidelines on European research, which we adopted in last May’s part-session, to be implemented in the best possible conditions.
Admittedly, the adoption of the rules for participation has been postponed to July. The tight deadlines – so we have been told – left no alternative. In any case, the RDFP package – the specific programmes and the rules for participation – will be adopted before the summer recess, which will allow them to be implemented properly on 1 January 2003. We will therefore be respecting the undertaking that I gave to you back in February 2001, and I am particularly pleased about this.
Turning now to the specific programmes, which are the subject of tonight's debate, I should also like warmly to congratulate the rapporteurs, Mr van Velzen, Mrs Zorba, Mr Alyssandrakis, Mr Piétrasanta and Mr Schwaiger. Personally, at this stage in the work, I followed progress more particularly on Mr van Velzen’s report on the specific programme on the first and third aspects of the RDFP. Once again, I can testify to the quality of Mr van Velzen’s work, all the more so when he had to rework his report several times: he firstly had to take into account the outcome of the votes at the second reading of the RDFP and then had to transfer several of the amendments adopted en bloc at the same vote into the specific programme.
The end result is a report which is absolutely consistent with the results of the votes on the sixth RDFP, and this in three respects, the first being the seven priorities. There is no point my reminding you of the list, but I will mention in particular the first of these priorities to say that in the specific programme we have better clarified the status of health and the fight against major diseases, separate from research on the genome.
Secondly, the report is consistent in terms of budget. Parliament very much welcomes the increase in certain budget lines and the inclusion of footnotes giving guidance on allocation within some budget lines, as we requested. Thirdly, and finally, it is consistent in terms of the transition between the new and old instruments, which had been a source of concern to Parliament and several Member States.
Finally, the report specifies the research areas adopted at an appropriate level of detail. For example, mine clearance, research into the solar system, doping practices, safety in the workplace and biological agents used by terrorists. We managed to steer clear of a further debate on the ethical issue. Some were nevertheless tempted, but common sense won through and the interests of the majority prevailed: I should like to thank all colleagues for this.
I will conclude by praising the excellent spirit of cooperation between the various political groups, the Commission representatives and Commissioner Busquin, the Council and the Spanish Presidency. Thanks to this we will have adopted, by the appointed time, an excellent work programme that the European scientific community will now be able to implement from 1 January 2003."@en1
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