European scientific and technological collaboration after the 2nd Ministerial Conference on Science
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 5th May 1966 (6th and 7th Sittings) (see Doc. 2053,Doc. 2053, report of the Cultural and Scientific Committee on European scientific and technological co-operation after the 2nd Ministerial Conference on Science. Text adopted by the Assembly on 5th May 1966 (7th Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Recalling its
Resolution 197 (1961), converting the “Cultural Committee” into the “Cultural and Scientific Committee” ;
2. Recalling
Resolution 284 (1964) on the role of the Consultative Assembly in the development of European co-operation in the scientific field ;
3. Noting that there has been, in the last few years, some measure of uncertainty in the method of preparing Assembly debates concerning scientific and technological research, including space research ; the industrial and technical development resulting from the progress of such research ; and the assimilation by society of the consequences of all kinds brought about by scientific and technological innovations ;
4. Considering that what is at issue is a wide range of complicated problems which have many side-issues but which are all closely interlinked, and that it seems desirable that these problems should be examined from an overall point of view, by a single Assembly organ which would follow their development and periodically report to the full Assembly ;
5. Convinced that, in the near future, the creation of a Committee on Scientific and Technological Questions will prove to be indispensable,
6. Instructs the Bureau and the Committee on Rules of Procedure :
to examine the ways and means of creating a new general Committee on Scientific and Technological Questions ;
to submit proposals at the second part of the 18th Ordinary Session.
