Specific research programme RTD: environment and climate (1994-1998)

The Council decision adopted a specific programme for RTD, including demonstration, in the field of environment and climate for the period 1994-1998. - Objectives: to help implement the EU's policy in the field of the environment, taking account of the Community's fifth framework programme of action for the environment and the European Environment Agency; to help meet the objectives of the world programmes of research into global change; to help define a global strategy for the EU in order to fulfil the commitments resulting from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; to help develop environmental products, technologies, techniques and services, which responded to new needs and whose exploitation could help to boost economic growth and create employment. - Amount deemed necessary: ECU 532 million. Indicative breakdown by area (in million ecus): - Natural environment, environmental quality and global change: 250 - Environmental technologies: 133 - Space techniques applied to environmental monitoring and research: 109 - Human dimensions of environmental change: 40. Participation in the programme was open, with financial support from the Community, to all legal entities established in the Community or in an associated country, following the conclusion of an agreement with the third country in question, and to the Joint Research Centre. The programme would be implemented through shared-cost actions, concerted actions, specific measures and accompanying measures relating to international cooperation, to the dissemination of results and to training for researchers and users. �