Mr. Chair, in this regard, I'm pleased to note that we are working to strengthening our S and T and innovation partnerships with the relocation of our materials technology laboratory to a new world-class facility at McMaster University.

We must protect our markets with new technologies, and the quality of materials must be indicated, backed by strict laboratory testing.

Key follow up actions: Invite the U.S., Japan and other industrialised partner countries to pool efforts with the EU to accelerate the development of ambitious policies on low carbon technologies and energy efficiency, including regulatory cooperation, joint RD projects, researchers mobility, and joint work on better performing materials and standards for critical and emerging technologies, as already pursued with the US under the auspices of the EU-US Energy Council Elaborate long-term low carbon energy roadmaps with key partners such as the US and Japan to support technological, research and industrial cooperation Propose a trilateral ...[+++]initiative with Japan and the U.S. on research on critical materials for energy applications, particularly in areas of major technological challenge such as the substitution of rare earths Raise the reciprocity principle in the EU energy-related science and technology cooperation as envisaged under the Innovation Union; [25] enhance cooperation between U.S. national energy laboratories and laboratories in the EU, including the Commission's Joint Research Centre Prepare EU and Member States joint approaches towards China, India, Brazil, and South Africa, designed to promote policies and technologies in the areas of low carbon energy and demand management, and upgrade existing bilateral dialogues to encompass sustainable modernisation paths and energy security aspects |

2.1.4. Comparable access to laboratory facilities and Equipment and Material, for conducting scientific and technological activities including research, development, testing and evaluation, standardisation and certification;

This strand involves supporting European poles of excellence in fields such as environment and climate research, information communication technologies, medical and food research, or research on new materials and industrial processes, by creating and supporting the cooperation of European high-level laboratories in European "networks of excellence" and joint research towards precise and well targeted objectives in "integrated proje ...[+++]cts".

University-industry cooperation under the Commission initiative is designed to bring together the most advanced semi-conductor and new materials technologies, available only in a relatively small number of industrial laboratories, and the most advanced academic understanding of the chemistry and physics of superconductors, in a drive to develop superconducting materials, technologies and devices with major potential industrial impa ...[+++]ct.