Specific research programme: advanced communications technologies and services (1994-1998)

The Committee on Energy, Research and Technology adopted the report by Mrs QUISTHOUDT-ROWOHL, stressing that coordinating national research and technology policies between each other and with the Community's policy can help to create new synergisms in accordance with Article 130H of the Union Treaty, and called on the Commission to draw up proposals together with the Member States on how research and technology policies could be coordinated in the Community. The Commission was also called on to cooperate closely with national research centres, scientific organisations and the European Science Foundation. The report called on the Commission and the Member States to set up a joint working party in charge of drawing up an inventory of existing coordination instruments, highlighting shortcomings in coordination mechanisms, examining the potential for and limits on creating new coordination instruments and encouraging networking of specific information. The specific research programmes should also give priority to projects which strengthen coordination. The Commission was called on to notify the European Parliament of the results of its coordination efforts once a year.�