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

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

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

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.

A3 326 90 by Mr Samland, on behalf of the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology, on the proposal from the Commission to the Council (COM(90) 154 final Doc.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I presented a first report to the heads of government.

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.

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

This has given rise to the impression that the powers of my colleagues on the Energy Committee were being undermined.

We may regard the principle of this procedure, which is in itself a significant innovation, as now established. A calendar of interinstitutional meetings can be fixed by common accord at the beginning of the intergovernmental conference.

This too is on the one hand a political instrument vis a vis the Commission and Council and, on the other, an instrument we, as Parliament, need in order to make clear to the citizens that we are using soundly and sparingly the funds entrusted to us.

But like any basic research, when you're really forced to do things that are way beyond existing technology, you can get there with micro technology, nanotechnology.

Report (doc. A3 219 90) by Mr Sälzer, on behalf of the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology, on the proposal from the Commission to the Council (COM(90) 155 final C3 158 90 SYN 260) for a decision concerning a specific programme of research and technological development in the field of telematic systems in areas of general interest (1990 1994).

And the irony of this particular system is the place where he did the research, which was Mexico, didn't adopt this technology, ignored this technology, talked about why this technology should be thought about, but not really applied.

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

At a later stage the number of working groups will be extended to areas such as agriculture, sinks, waste, capacity building technology transfer, research.

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.

On the subject of political union, the Rome summit provided the opportunity of a first duscussion, together with very useful guidelines for our further work of those of us responsible for doing the preparatory work.

However, I agree with Mr Blaney, when he claims that it seems to be clear on the basis of market prices that the full intervention price of 274.4 ECU per 100 kilos is not being passed on to the farmers.

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It is to be regretted that the Temporary Committee did not allow the draftsman of the Energy Committee nor the other committees delivering opinions the opportunity of explaining their amendments.

So, technology is selfish technology is generous.

As Mr Blaney has said, 5 to 6 pence a pound paid by the taxpayers of Europe that is rightly due to the farmers who are affected by lower prices is not being passed on by the traders.

every way we can let it be known quite clearly to all concerned that the farmers are not getting the price that we are paying for the intervention beef that we are purchasing.

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

LARIVE (LDR), rapporteur. (NL) Mr President, the third STD programme is directed at research and technical development in the field of life sciences and biotechnology for the benefit of the developing countries.

BLANEY (ARC). Mr President, I agree with all that has been said and really sympathize with the Com missioners who have been here but, on the other hand, I think it is farcical that when a Commissioner has replied

(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

11. Takes note of the full integration of activities of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies with the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology of Maastricht University and the subsequent renaming of the Institute as the United Nations University Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology

I am not talking here about levels of responsibility below the national level, for the simple reason that these are outside the scope of my report, but clearly in other circumstances we could look at the distribution of responsibilities below the national level.

Not all of them, because here, in contrast with the other specific programmes of the framework programme, it is not a matter of strengthening European competitiveness but of assistance.

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