To facilitate Parliament's role in controlling and co-legislating in this policy area, Amendment 15 seeks to establish a legal basis on international cooperation to contribute to solving current situations such as e.g. where exporters in third countries and in the EU are obliged to apply controls to transfers of dual-use items in the single market (when third countries' laws impose re-export rules within the single market of dual-use items imported), to allow for mutual recognition of export authorisations and therefore to greatly facilitate joint industrial projects or research projects in particular with third countries members of inte ...[+++]rnational export control regimes or listed in the current GEA, and to allow for the adoption of EU-wide specific export control rules that would be applicable to the technologies developed in the EU in the context of EU-financed international programmes involving third countries and would also cover access through intangible means to those technologies.

This amendment seeks to establish a legal basis on international cooperation to contribute to solving current situations such as e.g. where exporters in third countries and in the EU are obliged to apply controls to transfers of dual-use items in the single market (when third countries' laws impose re-export rules within the single market of dual-use items imported), to allow for mutual recognition of export authorisations and therefore to greatly facilitate joint industrial projects or research projects in particular with third countries members of international export control regimes or listed in the current GEA, and to allow for the a ...[+++]doption of EU-wide specific export control rules that would be applicable to the technologies developed in the EU in the context of EU-financed international programmes involving third countries and would also cover access through intangible means to those technologies.

28. Emphasises the fact that innovative products significantly strengthen the EU's competitive advantage, representing 73% of EU exports; notes, however, that the EU still lags behind the United States and Japan in innovation, especially in business R believes, therefore, that Community funding programmes, such as the Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, and the European Institute for Innovation and Technology, shou ...[+++]ld be exploited to their fullest; in this respect, welcomes the 'lead market' initiative and the Standards Action Programme as contributions to unlocking market potential for innovative products and services in specific areas of significant value to society; urges the Commission to demonstrate its commitment to better regulation in this regard and cautions against favouring certain technological solutions over others;

28. Emphasises the fact that innovative products significantly strengthen the EU's competitive advantage, representing 73% of EU exports; notes, however, that the EU still lags behind the United States and Japan in innovation, especially in business R believes, therefore, that Community funding programmes, such as the Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, and the European Institute for Innovation and Technology, shou ...[+++]ld be exploited to their fullest; in this respect, welcomes the 'lead market' initiative and the Standards Action Programme as contributions to unlocking market potential for innovative products and services in specific areas of significant value to society; urges the Commission to demonstrate its commitment to better regulation in this regard and cautions against favouring certain technological solutions over others;

28. Emphasises the fact that innovative products significantly strengthen the EU's competitive advantage, representing 73% of EU exports; notes, however, that the EU still lags behind the United States and Japan in innovation, especially in business R believes, therefore, that Community funding programmes, such as the Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, and the European Institute for Innovation and Technology, shou ...[+++]ld be exploited to their fullest; in this respect, welcomes the 'lead market' initiative and the Standards Action Programme as contributions to unlocking market potential for innovative products and services in specific areas of high value to society; urges the Commission to demonstrate its commitment to better regulation in this regard and cautions against favouring specific technological solutions over others;

The financing of measures under this programme precludes cumulative recourse to any other programme under Title VI and other Community financing programmes with the exception of Community programmes specifically aimed at supporting the efforts of the applicant countries to prepare for accession to the European Community (Art 1).