STOA has 1999 workplan approved
The Bureau of the European Parliament approved the STOA (Scientific and Technological Policy Options for the European Parliament) workplan for 1999 at a meeting in Strasbourg on 12 January 1999. STOA conducts project evaluations of European Union research. The titles of the 12 projects approved for 1999 are: - Budgets: Cost-benefit analysis of EU research and technological development work programmes; - Economic: Economic aspects o the development of technologies for the waste treatment industry; - Research: Genetically-modified food: objectives for EU funded research and development; - Research: Use of new technologies and cost of water management in view of the new water directive of the EU; - External economic: The impact of rapid technological change in information technology on the stability of world trade and international capital flows; - Legal: New technologies for the marketing and sale of medicines on the Internet and television networks; - Transport: Technological options for a community strategy for a system of navigation by satellite (GNSSI); - Culture: linguistic diversity on the Internet: Assessment of the contribution of machine translation; - Development: Evaluation of agricultural or other technologies fighting against hunger and poverty; - Civil liberties: Crowd control and prison technologies (An appraisal of technologies of political control); - Women's rights: Women professionals in the media in the context of new technological developments; - Petitions: Personal protective equipment at work. STOA is the unit of the Directorate General for Research of the European Parliament. It cooperates actively with the European Parliamentary Technology Assessment (EFTA) network.