The Commission also appointed three Deputy Directors-General: Ms Maive Rute to its Joint Research Centre (DG JRC), Mr Maciej Popowski to its department for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), and Mr Patrick Child to its department for Research and Innovation (DG RTD).

18. Highlights the importance of analysing, sharing and integrating best practices concerning synergies between the policy instruments; in this context, welcomes the efforts made by the Commission to improve inter-departmental cooperation and calls on it to step up regional-level analysis of research and innovation potential and needs, in particular as regards the collection of available qualitative data, as well as analysis of the interrelations with other instruments in the evaluation studies on either of the three financing instru ...[+++]ments, in order to be able to provide joint guidance;

18. Highlights the importance of analysing, sharing and integrating best practices concerning synergies between the policy instruments; in this context, welcomes the efforts made by the Commission to improve inter-departmental cooperation and calls on it to step up regional-level analysis of research and innovation potential and needs, in particular as regards the collection of available qualitative data, as well as analysis of the interrelations with other instruments in the evaluation studies on either of the three financing instru ...[+++]ments, in order to be able to provide joint guidance;

10. Calls on the Commission to simplify the bureaucracy for the FP7 and CIP in order to strengthen the effects of synergies with the Structural Funds and to ensure regional-level analysis of research and innovation potential and needs as well as analysis of the inter-relations with other instruments in the evaluation studies on either of the three financing instruments in order to be able to provide joint guidance;

Excellence should not be the only criterion used when determining funding priorities, and additional criteria should be considered in order to make it possible for research centres in the new Member States to be integrated.

Methods of analysis, detection and control: The objective is to contribute to the development, improvement, validation and harmonisation of reliable and cost-effective strategies for sampling and measuring chemical contaminants and sequencing existing or emerging pathogenic and non-pathogenic micro-organisms (such as viruses, bacteria, mould, yeasts, fungi, parasites, and new agents of the prion type), which will make it possible to develop tools to predict the emergence of the pathogenicity of micro-organisms, placing special emphasis on the introduction of HACCP (Hazard Assessment Critical Control Points) throughout the food chain, and in this regard, part ...[+++]icularly the urgent need for the development and evaluation of reliable and more refined scientific methods and increased research into ante mortem diagnostic tests for BSE and scrapie.