Activites

• 1998/10/22 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 1998/591
  • OJ L 284 22.10.1998, p. 0035
• #2123
• 1998/10/13 Council Meeting
• 1998/10/13 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1998/10/13 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1998/10/07 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0553/1998 summary

    In adopting without debate the report by Mr Rolf LINKOHR (PSE, D), the European Parliament approved the conclusion of the scientific and technological cooperation agreement with the USA.�

• 1998/09/18 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1998/09/02 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0350/1998
• 1998/03/10 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1998)0137 summary

    OBJECTIVE: to promote scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and the United States within the framework of joint research projects. SUBSTANCE: the agreement signed on 5 December 1997 in Washington is intended to enable the European Community and the United States of America to benefit, on a mutual basis from the scientific and technological progress made under joint research programmes. It has an initial term of five years and can be extended, subject to assessment by the parties and the conclusion of a written agreement of extension. The sectors concerned by the joint research projects are: - environment (including climate research), - biomedicine and health (including research on AIDS, infectious diseases and drug abuse), - agriculture, - fisheries science, - engineering research, - non-nuclear energy, - natural resources, - metrology, - information and communication technology, - telematics, - biotechnology, - marine sciences and technology, - social sciences, - transportation, - science and technology policy, management, training and mobility of scientists. If necessary the list of research areas may be extended, within the framework of an appropriate procedure provided for within the joint consultative group. The agreement sets out the forms of the cooperative activities: joint research projects, joint studies, seminars, conferences or workshops, exchanges or sharing of equipment and materials, exchanges of scientists as part of mobility programmes, exchange of information, training, etc. There are provisions on the dissemination and utilization of information resulting from joint research projects (in particular in the Annex to the agreement with regard to intellectual property and proprietary information). The beneficiaries are the scientific community, the industrial sector and the general public, through the direct and indirect effects of cooperation. Participants from third countries may take part in research activities. A joint committee is set up in the framework of the agreement and is made up of the official representatives of the parties. The agreement is financed, as far as the Community is concerned from the Community's RTD Framework Programme budget (the financial statement attached to the proposal provides for an amount of ECU 120 000 per year). �

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1998)0137
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0350/1998
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0553/1998
• : Decision 1998/591
• : OJ L 284 22.10.1998, p. 0035

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)