about 20 % is related to projects which have not a reliable coupling with other programme activities; the remaining 20 % has been suspended due to a lack of clear link with the future concept of operations or because of the lack of connection with the Master Plan;

22. Deplores the fact that research funding is still very fragmented in Europe, with multiple sources of funding from the Member States and the Community applying different priorities, evaluation criteria, definitions and procedures, leading to unnecessary overlap, confusion, error and lack of critical mass; asks the Commission and the Council to put the issues of cooperation and coordination between the various EU and national programmes at the top of the agenda; calls on the Commission to carry out an analysis to improve the link between European and national actions, including possible coordination in the phases of formulating calls for proposals and evaluating projects, as well as the identification of national rules or laws that hind ...[+++]er or complicate the financial management of international research cooperation projects; asks that calls for proposals, including those of July 2011, be issued in consultation with the Member States, not duplicating or competing with national initiatives but complementing them; in this respect, considers that the ERA-Net scheme should be strengthened as a tool to support excellence and the development of criteria for quality indicators which constitutes the basis for coordination between programmes or joint ventures; suggests that FP7 should complement the efforts of actors managing national programmes involved in joint programming in order to move the RDFPs away from project management thinking towards programme management thinking, but without neglecting the management of small projects; believes that for Joint Programming to be successful, projects should be selected on the basis of excellence, tailored to the characteristics of each sector, the coordinating role of the Commission should be strengthened, and participating Member States should honour their financial commitments; asks that the last three years of FP7 be devoted to helping structure the European Research Area;

It is necessary to modernise Community legislation on transnational information and consultation of employees with a view to ensuring the effectiveness of employees’ transnational information and consultation rights, increasing the proportion of European Works Councils established while enabling the continuous functioning of existing agreements, resolving the problems encountered in the practical application of Directive 94/45/EC and remedying the lack of legal certainty resulting from some of its provisions or the absence of certain provisio ...[+++]ns, and ensuring that Community legislative instruments on information and consultation of employees are better linked.

It is necessary to modernise Community legislation on transnational information and consultation of employees with a view to ensuring the effectiveness of employees’ transnational information and consultation rights, increasing the proportion of European Works Councils established while enabling the continuous functioning of existing agreements, resolving the problems encountered in the practical application of Directive 94/45/EC and remedying the lack of legal certainty resulting from some of its provisions or the absence of certain provisio ...[+++]ns, and ensuring that Community legislative instruments on information and consultation of employees are better linked.

deplores a weakness of linkage between the Commission and the Member States: the lack of uniformity of own-resources-related information forwarded to the Commission by the Member States in connection with, for instance, fraud, irregularities established and checks introduced to prevent them (cf. paragraph 1.61 of the Court of Auditors' annual report), the failure by some Member States to forward data in connection with the clearance of accounts (cf. EAGGF, Guarantee Section, paragraph 2.59 of the annual report) and the same failing concerning the Structural Funds, and the lack of statistics at the Commission on premiums within the sheepm ...[+++]eat and goatmeat CMOs (cf. 2.117 of the Court of Auditors' annual report);

deplores a weakness of linkage between the Commission and the Member States: the lack of uniformity of own-resources-related information forwarded to the Commission by the Member States in connection with, for instance, fraud, irregularities established and checks introduced to prevent them (cf. paragraph 1.61 of the Court of Auditors' annual report), the failure by some Member States to forward data in connection with the clearance of accounts (cf. EAGGF, Guarantee Section, paragraph 2.59 of the annual report) and the same failing concerning the Structural Funds, and the lack of statistics at the Commission on premiums within the sheepm ...[+++]eat and goatmeat CMOs (cf. 2.117 of the Court of Auditors' annual report);