RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT : MEPS APPROVE JOINT TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES.

The first Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) are now expected to get up and running during the early part of 2008, following approval by the European Parliament.

MEPs, voting in Strasbourg on 11 December, adopted opinions supporting the creation of JTIs in the areas of embedded systems (Artemis), nanoelectronics (ENIAC), innovative medicines (IMI), and environmentally friendly aeronautics (Clean Sky). Each will be a public private partnership, jointly managed by industry and the European Commission (as well as specific member states, in the case of Artemis and ENIAC), designed to drive forward R&D work in its specific area of competence.

A general' approach was also already reached on all four JTIs by the Council of Ministers, on 23 November. The dossiers are now expected to be formally signed off, without discussion, by the Council on 20 December.

The key point stressed by MEPs, in their opinion, was that the JTIs should be subject to strict sunset clauses, requiring them to cease...

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