Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-11-14-Speech-3-013"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-11-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Research Area (Multiannual Framework Programme 2002-2006)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011114.2.3-013"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-11-14-Speech-3-0142
lpv:speaker	lp:Gianni Vattimo2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, as draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs on the Caudron report, I should like to offer the rapporteur our Committee’s congratulations and thanks for the job he has done, which was not a simple one. His report provides a balanced discussion of all the main arguments on which the European institutions should concentrate their attention as regards scientific research and the potential for technological and social development. The Committee on Freedoms particularly stresses the need for the public promotion of research to be done with the greatest possible transparency and involvement of the citizens. A European knowledge-based society, like the one the Union is proposing, requires not only huge-scale initiatives in literacy, including scientific literacy, for all the citizens but also an increasingly intense, active involvement of the citizens in decisions regarding the direction that investment in this field should take. Non-specialist citizens, in other words, should not just enjoy or, as is often the case, suffer the results achieved by science, but should also join with the experts in deciding on the objectives that research should pursue. We believe the validity of a European science policy should be measured especially on this criterion. The Caudron report quite rightly addresses these aspects. I believe the Caudron report also invokes the transparent and democratic nature of decisions on scientific research when, instead of invoking principles of natural law, which are, in fact, only held by certain authorities, it refers, in the case of the ethical problems of research, to charters of rights, the documents which have effectively been approved and sanctioned by our Institutions. This means, for instance, in the field of stem cell research, respecting the feelings of a large number of European citizens by ruling out the production of stem cells for research, but allowing research to be conducted on those supernumerary cells that would otherwise be destroyed. On this and other matters I believe we should go with the Caudron report."@en1

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