Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-13-Speech-2-072"
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"Mr President, the new Member States had not been involved when the regulation of the principles contained in the Sixth Framework Programme was prepared. However, we did have the opportunity to participate in the Programme itself, which allowed us to gain considerable experience. We have tried to include the experiences of new Member States in the interesting and important debate for the preparation of the FP7 by the Commission. In this respect, I would like to emphasise two topics in our plenary session today.
The first topic is deciding what the basis for the provision of assistance should be. I believe that it should be excellence, for it is excellence that makes Europe really competitive. I believe that we need three conditions here. The first condition is to provide access and network building, because this is the key to sustainable research quality. The second condition is to involve structural funds to a larger extent into building the research and development infrastructure. Parliament has actually voted in favour of my proposal in this respect, during the regulation of the funds. The third condition is to develop extensive consortia, in order to actually create the European Research Area, and to ensure that our researchers are not working in the United States or elsewhere. I would mention, for instance, the Galileo project, where a new European infrastructure could only be developed by using an extensive base.
The second topic, briefly, is the necessity of supporting small and medium-sized enterprises. I can only welcome the proposal to channel at least 15% of the cooperation programme funds to small and medium-sized enterprises. I have personally added a further proposal to this, which has been accepted by our committee, and which ensures easier access for small and medium-sized enterprises to European Union funds, especially for pre-financing. I ask Parliament, too, to support my proposal, because it is based on the experiences of the Sixth Framework Programme.
We still have a lot of work to do, such as the VAT refund and other issues related to the regulation of utilisation, but I trust that the Seventh Framework Programme will bring us closer to the implementation of the single European Research Area."@en1
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