4 Amendments of Lara COMI related to 2011/2107(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the Common Strategic Framework to proceed to an administrative simplification through the development of a more standardised set of rules covering all participants in EU research and innovation programmes; agrees with the Commission that European standards are an important step towards bringing research results to the market and for the validation of technologies and that they can play this key role only if they keep pace with the development of technologies and ever faster product development cycles;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for unleashing the public sector’s purchasing power to spur innovation through public procurement including pre-commercial procurement that can enable public authorities to share the risks and benefits with suppliers, without involving state aid;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Underlines the need for the intellectual property rights to guarantee a balance between exploitation and technology transfer and access to and rapid dissemination of scientific results;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for new methods of financing to be tested, such as vouchers for EU innovation, which would allow businesses to spend those resources directly at accredited research centres; such vouchers should not be subject to cost reporting because their use would be certified by the centres where the vouchers are spent. The accreditation centres could be set up on a national or regional basis and validated by a European body such as, for example, the JRC;