Press Release: EU blueprint for Security Research programme

The European Commission has adopted a Communication on 'Security Research: The Next Steps', 9 September 2004. The conclusion is that the EU should launch a fully-fledged European Security Research Programme by 2007, with a sufficiently large budget. The paper represents the European Commission's feedback to recommendations of a high-level group of 27 top European industry executives and policymakers, published last March. The report, "Research for a Secure Europe", stresses the need for increased co-ordination in this field and advocates an annual EU budget of €1 billion for security research.

EUR-Lex: COM(2004)072: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2004:072:FIN

European Commission: DG Research: Security Research: Documents: Research for a Secure Europe: Report of the Group of Personalities in the field of Security Research, March 2004 http://ec.europa.eu/comm/research/security/pdf/gop_en.pdf

European Commission: DG Research: Security Research: News and features, 09.09.04 http://ec.europa.eu/comm/research/security/news/article_1495_en.html

European Commission: DG Research: Security Research http://ec.europa.eu/comm/research/security/index_en.html

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