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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should first of all like to address the rapporteur and congratulate him on the outcome, but also on the excellent working relationship. You have found an innovative method, for which we are very grateful. Needless to say, that also applies to the shadow rapporteurs, Messrs McNally, Piétrasanta and Plooij-van Gorsel. We worked well together. I should also like to extend a word of thanks to my own fellow MEPs who have invested a huge amount of energy in this dossier. This is truly a joint outcome, and I therefore hope that the Commission, as well as the Council, is prepared to take this outcome seriously.
Indeed, we have developed a structure by means of which, within the restricted margins available to us, everything has become clearer. More emphasis has been placed on bio-sciences; a better link has been established between research on the human genome and related diseases; far more attention has been devoted to a coherent package of industrial policy, information society, nanotechnoloy, as well as aviation and aerospace. Additionally, food safety has been accorded considerably more attention. Furthermore, unlike the Commission, we have given transport a much higher place in our list of priorities, alongside more attention for energy. Agriculture is also more involved. In my view, the package is looking better now all in all.
The budget is also of major importance in my opinion. We have expressly adhered to our pledge to the Council that we would not increase the budget. We have slightly shifted the priorities. We would therefore make an urgent appeal to the Council to accept our budget now and not to start bargaining, for we will then have a war on our hands.
Next, we should be emphatically aware that although the EU’s contribution to research in the Member States carried out by the national governments and industry is limited, it is still of fundamental importance. If, specifically, the EU can play a complementary role, the added value will be significant.
Not for nothing did we include a fourth instrument to guarantee the smoothest possible transition between the Fifth and Sixth Framework Programme and to allow minor projects too to take place. More than 15% has been set aside for small- and medium-sized enterprises, and that too is one of our priorities.
The decentralisation of the Sixth Framework Programme is important, but it is just as important not to weigh down the newly integrated projects
with an enormous amount of red tape. That is why I believe our amendments are excellent.
One final point: we have struggled greatly with the ethical principles. Indeed, on the one hand, it is important to create a framework within which research is to take place, but on the other hand, it is important, by means of further research, to create space for solutions to be found for existing illnesses with a genetic hereditary factor. Our greatest challenge was to strike that balance, and I hope that we have succeeded in this."@en1
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