52. Remains concerned that previous innovation and competitiveness programmes have failed to deliver the necessary link between fundamental and applied research and industrial innovation partly due to the fact that the financial resources were rather limited; believes that the support of the European public is indispensable for realising the Lisbon goals; considers that the Commission should propose a simplification of its financial procedures with a view to facilitating the implementation of research policy; considers that financial instruments need to be rethought in a more fine-tuned, targeted way and that the establishment of an ambitious programme for competitiveness and innovation endowed with adequate financial resources is vital ...[+++]for supporting a "prosperity" oriented industrial policy, notably for SMEs, that would successfully capitalise on research through industrial applications, such as technology transfer from universities and research centres into industrial application; considers that further steps should be taken to foster development of the information society as proposed by the Commission, developing and promoting international standards for ICT and mobile telecommunication technology, monitoring the implementation of the electronic communications legislative framework, supporting EU benchmarking activities in the field of eEurope action plan initiatives and further enhancing EU security research; regards such a programme as essential in order to achieve the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy in the sphere of new technologies and ecotechnologies; considers that adequate funding must be secured through the 7th EU Research Programme (FP7) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) for the EU Action Plan for Environmental Technologies (ETAP); calls for adequate funding for the support of innovative SMEs and initiatives aimed at helping the commercialisation of research and the transfer of technology, notably through the Euro ...

14. Calls on the Commission, the Member States, operators and the national authorities involved in managing telecommunications infrastructures, to actively contribute to the public debate on electromagnetic fields and mobile communications, inter alia by providing reliable information concerning current scientific knowledge and technology; welcomes, in this respect, the initiative of the Commission to establish a European Informat ...[+++]ion System on EMF involving all stakeholders;

62. Stresses, finally, the importance of ongoing cooperation between the two sides under the Research and Technological Development Programme, and urges the Commission to come forward with a list of priority projects yet to be covered by the Programme, particularly in the fields such as high technology IT, telecoms, environment, energy, medical and biotechnology research where they could complement existing EU programmes;

17. Agrees that, in the field of information technology, all elements of the telecommunications package, including the eEurope Action Plan, must be adopted this year; urges progress in the field of 'frontier technology', while the European Council must recognise that certain moral and ethical issues arise from the application of some of those technologies on which a Temporary Committee of Parliament will be reporting;

(27) Whereas the Commission will at regular intervals investigate developments in the market for new services in the field of the Information Society, especially in the framework of the convergence between telecommunications, information technology and media and, where necessary, take initiatives in order to adapt rules promptly in order to encourage the European development of new services,

The participating private enterprises include many of the large technology companies in the field of telecommunications and IT as well as smaller companies.