BARROS MOURA the Council, we think that nothing really positive would have been achieved.

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Human resources information technology

Information technology and conference servicing

POLLACK (S), in writing. The Community's policy in the field of research and development in information technology is very important to the future of IT industries in the Community.

(c) Modernization of information and communication technology and advancement of indigenous technology

II. Information and communications technology

Now, the third curve is information technology.

We must have equal access to their research programmes and IT markets, and this is clearly not the case at present.

From early times there has been a control on the legitimacy of expenditure, this being a necessary means of tracking down fraud for example, but also of course a fairly apolitical way of scrutinizing expenditure.

It is a question of R and D to make sure that we maintain the high technology R and D in Europe.

PANDOLFI, Vice President of the Commission. (IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the three reports we have been discussing are absolutely central to the major issues of the international competitiveness of European industry.

It is necessary to amplify the Treaty so as to give some teeth to this parliamentary right.

Information and communication technology strategy

Precisely because the Federal Government talks about modernization in its state treaty and has applies to the Commission for funds under the Euratom Treaty for this purpose, it is vitally important for the committee's amendment, which has also been endorsed by the Temporary Committee, to be adopted as it stands.

The latter having already been rejected by the CERT.

Some of the amendments by Mr Iversen and Mrs van Dijk are not considered because, as I have said, I take Lord O'Hagan's report as a basis.

(g) Mutual assistance regimes should ensure the timely investigation of the criminal misuse of information technologies and the timely gathering and exchange of evidence in such cases

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(a) Reclassification of two information technology posts in the Fund secretariat

Providing training to facilitate use of information and communications technology

Making information and communications technology available to all youth

assessing the effectiveness of available filtering technology and providing information to the public

Noting the necessity of preventing the criminal misuse of information technologies,

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55 63. Combating the criminal misuse of information technologies

support defence technology research, and coordinate and plan joint research activities and the study of technical solutions meeting future operational needs

Recognizing that gaps in the access to and use of information technologies by States can diminish the effectiveness of international cooperation in combating the criminal misuse of information technologies, and recognizing also the need to facilitate the transfer of information technologies, in particular to developing countries,

Recognizing that gaps in the access to and use of information technologies by States can diminish the effectiveness of international cooperation in combating the criminal misuse of information technologies, and noting the need to facilitate the transfer of information technologies, in particular to developing countries,

Surely the time has long passed for investigations and experiments and what is now needed is a programme to encourage and facilitate development of adequate and affordable pre school child care facilities for women, to enable them to enter the workforce.

BETTINI (V). (IT) Mr President, I wish to quote Rule 102 of the Rules of Procedure which states 'At the beginning of the debate on a specific item on the agenda, its inadmissibility may be moved' and point out in relation to the Samland report on research and technological development in the field of information technology that we have here, in our view, a report lacking in adequate documentation.

Computer technology is indispensable to access many pertinent items of data.

SELIGMAN (ED). Mr President, the crisis in information technology is worldwide.

He was also a member of the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology and of the Committee on Regional Policy.

We must also tackle and settle the question of how to secure closer involvement of the national parliaments in common action.

Protecting youth from the harmful aspects of information and communications technology

From that we drew a number of conclusions and tried to put several ideas into practice, many of them interesting ones, some perhaps extremely liberal in comparison with the means we could apply.

Where are we going in IT, what is wrong and where is it going to finish ?

You hear that this is the era of environment or biology, or information technology ...

According to research by the economists Loukas Karabarbounis and Brent Neiman, half of this decline is the result of cheaper information technology, which has enabled firms to replace workers with computers.

I presented a first report to the heads of government.

Of every 10 of world trade in information technology, Greece accounts for 0.01.

I hope that Parliament will adopt the ideas that we, as the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology, have on the subject.

It would therefore be advisable to select the projects for this section on the basis of strict criteria, and to provide support only for original topics where backing from the Community is essential for the project to be implemented.

For this reason the Committee on Research and Technology supports its rapporteur in proposing that there should be a topic of special research on biomedical ethics.