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I should just like to say a word about the pending research. Public research is very important but it is very clear that, even in the EU, objectives of devoting 3% of GDP to research by 2010 is based on the concept that 1% of GDP would come from public sources, 2% of GDP would come from the private sector. Whatever happens in public spending, we never will have enough resources to achieve 3%. For that reason, the regulatory framework has to be judged so that intellectual property rights are protected in such a way that private money will go to the sector. Whether you like it or not, that is very simple, clear economic logic.
On biotechnology, I am sure you are at least partly right. In the Commission we have accepted the biotechnology action plan, which we follow in a strict way. In general in the field of so-called 'red biotechnology', which is connected to pharmaceutical industries, perhaps the situation is slightly better. When you go to the other branches of biotechnological research we have a lot of work to do. Today my colleagues Mr Byrne and Mrs Wallström talked about the GMO area. There are also other issues in this field.
If we want to lead in the field of pharmaceutical research we cannot separate different chapters of biotechnological research. We need intellectual property rights, we need sufficient financing. We also need public opinion that supports novelties and innovation in the market. At the end of the day that is always critical. No research can have financing unless there is a market. There is no market unless consumers have confidence in the products that come out of research and manufacturing."@en1
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