Commissioner Ruberti's initiatives for Community RTD programme management welcomed by the Research Council
At the Research Council meeting on 30 June 1993, the Research Ministers expressed their satisfaction with the Commission and, more specifically, Commissioner A. Ruberti, for the initiatives taken to improve Community RTD programme management. These actions aim to simplify the application forms, to increase procedural transparency as well as access to and participation in the programmes and to improve the evaluation and selection procedures. As of 1 July 1993, the following measures are already effective: - Calls for tender published 4 times a year at fixed dates; - Simplified application forms; - Rotational system for experts composing the selection committees. Mr. Ruberti announced his intention to publish, in Autumn of this year, an explanatory handbook on the management of Community RTD programmes.