Activites

• 2003/09/16 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2003/1608
  • OJ L 230 16.09.2003, p. 0001-0003
• 2003/07/22 Final act signed
• 2003/07/22 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2003/06/19 Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading
  • T5-0279/2003 summary

    The European Parliament adopted a resolution approving the common position.�

• 2003/04/23 Vote in committee, 2nd reading
• 2003/03/27 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 2nd reading
• #2494
• 2003/03/17 Council Meeting
  • 14089/1/2002 summary

    In its common position, the Council incorporated substantively the amendments tabled by the European Parliament, which sought to: - state that data to be gathered and provided should be broken down by region, relying upon the NUTS classification; - shorten the interval by which the Commission reports to the European Parliament and to the Council on the implementation of this decision, both for the initial report (now four years after entry into force) and for the periodic reports (now every three years); - better focus on the purpose of the intensified cooperation with the OECD and other international organisations, now stated as 'with a view to ensuring comparability of data and avoiding duplication of efforts'. The Council did not incorporate the amendment on cooperation and consultation with the Helsinki Group. In one recital, however, the Council welcomed explicitly the work of the Helsinki Group, adding that gender specific data should be gathered to monitor progress in equal opportunity policy implementation. This recital maintained the importance of the Helsinki Group and underlined the intentions of continued cooperation with the group, which was also considered important by the Commission. Lastly, it should be noted that the management procedure has been changed to a regulatory procedure. �

• 2002/10/07 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(2002)0554 summary

    The amended proposal from the Commission accepts the amendment, which stresses the importance of taking account of the regional dimension, in accordance with the NUTS classification, if possible. The Commission also accepts an amendment, which underlines the importance of cooperation with the OCDE and other international organisations. The Commission accepts the amendment, which calls for more frequent reports. The Commission cannot, however, accept the amendment that calls for closer cooperation and increased consultation with the Helsinki group, for legal reasons. The Commission nevertheless acknowledges and stresses the importance of the statistical work of that group and undertakes to continue its fruitful cooperation with it. The Commission will also reaffirm this commitment by having a Commission declaration included in the Council minutes when the Decision is adopted.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home', 'title': 'Eurostat'}],
• 2002/07/02 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T5-0338/2002 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the resolution drafted by Giuseppe NISTICO (EPP-ED, Italy) with a few amendments. (Please refer to the document dated 18/06/02.) Parliament used its procedure without debate.�

• 2002/06/18 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0236/2002
• #X016
• 2002/03/11 Council Meeting
• 2001/09/03 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 2001/08/27 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2001)0490 summary

    PURPOSE: to develop a new generation of statistical variables for Community science and technology purposes. CONTENT: since the expiry in 1997 of the former Council Decision on statistics a legal vacuum on the definition and clarification of statistics has existed. Given the importance of statistics on defining EU science and technology policies as well as their importance on EU businesses a harmonised set of statistics is considered both relevant and important. The new draft European Parliament and Council Decision is based on the former Decision and on research into statistics which has taken place in the interim period. Users comments, the views of Member States and the advice of the SPC have all been taken into account when drafting the Decision. The objective of this Decision is to maintain and improve the Community statistical information system on science, technology and innovation. Such a system would be able to support and monitor Community policies. Developing a legally defined set of statistics would be of further use to a wide range of users. Care has been taken to ensure that any burden on the national statistical authorities should be limited and that any additional costs should be kept to a minimum. It is hoped that the response burden of units surveyed, especially enterprises will be confined. Specifically, the draft Decision envisages the implementation of individual statistical actions, the aim being: - to continue working on existing Community statistics based on the delivery of data by the Member States as well as from other sources; - to develop new statistical variables to be produced on a permanent basis. Under this specific action, priority will be given to statistics on innovation, human resources devoted to science and technology, patent statistics, high technology statistics and general gender statistics on science and technology. - to improve and update existing standards and manuals on concepts and methods and to improve data quality in specific comparability and timeliness. The specific objectives of the Decision are as follows: - to consolidate and improve the Community reference framework for statistics on science and technology defining the most appropriate concepts and methods; - to consolidate and extend the Community statistical information system for science and technology of regular delivery and dissemination of existing and new indicators. In particular statistics in the service industry and gender statistics on science and technology will require closer examination; - to promote and support comparability and coherence of statistics on science and technology in the Member States; - to improve the timeliness of data and to facilitate the accessibility of the statistical information.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home', 'title': 'Eurostat'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2001)0490
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0236/2002
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0338/2002
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(2002)0554
• Council position published: 14089/1/2002
• Decision by Parliament, 2nd reading: T5-0279/2003
• : Decision 2003/1608
• : OJ L 230 16.09.2003, p. 0001-0003

History

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