Translation of "Exploration de la ligne " (French → English) :

21. Recalls the Joint Declaration of 1 December 2011 on financing the additional costs of the ITER programme for 2012-2013, in which Parliament, the Council and the Commission also agree to make available EUR 360 million in CA in the 2013 budget procedure, ‘making full use of the provisions laid down in the Financial Regulation and in the IIA, excluding any further ITER-related revision of the MFF’; is concerned that the Commission proposes to finance this additional amount only through redeployment from lines of the FP7 programme, c ...[+++]ontrary to Parliament’s long-standing position on the matter; takes full account of the Commission’s claim that this amount derives from performance savings on FP7, and that those cuts on administrative lines will not harm the operation of the programme; intends to examine this claim further, as well as to explore other means available under the IIA and the Financial Regulation for this purpose;

52. Points out that legislation is not the only key to promoting change; asks the Commission, therefore, to explore new ways to exchange experiences, share best practices and transfer knowledge across borders among local and regional actors; highlights the strong need to further enhance the capacity and understanding of staff dealing with e-procurement and – through national and/or EU incentives to secure a ‘level playing field’ between SMEs and large enterprises – to assist SMEs in building their knowledge and capacity; welcomes the Connecting Europe Facility as a new instrument to boost cross border e-procurement, thus allowing th ...[+++]e digital single market to develop;

Ways to improve communication among the various Commission services and with competent authorities as well as development of guidelines will be explored.

The transfer of expertise to areas beyond science (e.g. e-Health, e-Government, e-Learning) and the use of e-Infrastructures as cost-efficient platforms for large-scale technological experimentation (e.g. Future Internet, massively parallel software, Living Labs) are different dimensions to be explored.

TAKES NOTE of the Global Exploration Strategy outlining the global coordination of the major powers' plans for human and robotic exploration, including the possibility, at a later stage, of a human expedition to Mars;

The strategic objective of this line is to foster the basic understanding of genomic information, by developing the knowledge base, tools and resources needed to decipher the function of genes and gene products relevant to human health and to explore their interactions with each other and with their environment.