CORDIS focus 120. 2 November 1998

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ISSN 1022-6559 2 November 1998 The contents of this bulletin are based on RTD-News, updated every day, and other CORDIS databases, FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Council malves progress - but no agreement on budget Meeting in Luxembourg on 13 October 1998, the EU's Research Ministers reached agreement on the content of three specific programmes and made substantial progress on two more. However, in the second formal meeting of the conciliation committee held the previous day, the Council and Parliament made no further progress in resolving their differences over the Fifth Framework Programme, in particular on the budget question. With agreement needed on the overall Framework Programme before any of the component parts can be finalised, the timetable is now extremely tight if all the decisions required are to be adopted before the end of 1998, thus avoiding a break in EU research funding. In the conciliation committee, the Council was not pre­ Sustainable Development programme at the June Research pared to raise its budget offer above the ECU 14,300 mil­ Council. The Council has therefore now agreed on the con­lion it made at the previous conciliation committee meet­ tent of six programmes, with only two yet to be discussed ing two weeks before. The Parliament for its part, and with by Ministers - Promoting Competitive and Sustainable the support of the Commission, refused to reduce its de­ Growth, and the JRC's non-nuclear research activities.

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