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"Madam President, we would draw the honourable Member’s attention to the recent conclusions, adopted within the framework of the Council, concerning the future of research policy: on the one hand, the Council conclusions of 24 September 2004 concerning European research policy and, on the other hand, the Presidency’s conclusions concerning future European policy on support for research – prepared at the Competitiveness Council on 25 and 26 November – which the large majority of delegations supported.
The two documents describe in detail the Council’s opinion on the possible future development of European research policy. In its September conclusions, the Council also expressed its point of view regarding the Commission’s reply to the high level group of experts chaired by Professor Marimon, responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the instruments used to implement the Sixth Framework Programme. In these same conclusions, the Council emphasises that it is important to strengthen technological research and development at European level as an indispensable complement to the efforts made at national level, and it draws particular attention to the need to exercise a powerful leverage effect on private investment in research – an action the responsibility for which falls in large part to the Member States. The Council also emphasises the important role played by SMEs in terms of increasing the EU’s capacity for innovation and research and, in this context, recommends that simpler and less bureaucratic methods be applied for implementing the next framework programme.
As the honourable Member no doubt knows, Europe’s lack of sufficient investment in scientific and technological development compared with the United States goes back many years, but the gap has widened since the middle of the 1990s. It is only since the adoption of the Lisbon Strategy, in 2000, and of the 3% investment objective, set in Barcelona in 2002, that sustained efforts, commensurate with the challenge to be faced, have been made.
It should also be remembered that the European Union is beginning to take important measures to develop TRD activities in the fields of security policy and space policy. European research and development policy is a crucial element of the Lisbon Strategy, the importance of which has been emphasised, in particular, by the former Dutch Prime Minister, Wim Kok, in his report entitled ‘Facing the Challenge’, and which was also emphasised very explicitly this morning by the President of the European Council and by the President of the Commission. Within the framework of preparing for the spring European Council, the Council broadly concurs with the analysis made in the Kok report. Account will undoubtedly have to be taken of this in the Seventh TRD Framework Programme, which will probably be adopted during the first half of 2006 in codecision with the European Parliament.
The form and scope of the next framework programme will, however, also depend upon the available funds which, as the honourable Member will appreciate, will depend in the first place upon the results of the discussions under way concerning the financial perspectives."@en1
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