CORDIS focus 104. 23 FEBRUARY 1998

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ISSN 1022-6559 23 February 1998 The contents of this bulletin are based on RTD-News, updated every day, and other CORDIS databases. BREAKTHROUGH ON FIFTH RTD FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Meeting late into the night on 12 February 1998, the EU's Research Ministers reached unanimous political agreement on a common position on the Fifth RTD Framework Programme. Chaired by John Battle, the UK's Minister for Science, Energy and Industry, President­in­Office, the Research Council was able to settle the main sticking point ­ the Programme's budget. Having settled the structure of the Programme in the morning session, Ministers finally agreed, after hours of difficult negotiations, on an overall budget of ECU 14,000 million over the five years of the Programme. The figure agreed by Ministers falls far short of the ECU 16,300 million proposed by the Commission, and is even further from the ECU 16,700 million voted by the European Parliament. Speaking after the Council had reached agreement, Edith Cresson, Commissioner responsible for research, innovation, education, training and youth, whilst acknowledging the efforts of the UK Presidency to reach an agreement, expressed her dissatisfaction at the low budget figure. "A negative signal has been sent to European researchers and industry," she said, noting that, in real terms, the budget agreed by the Council would be less than that for the Fourth Framework Programme.

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