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Deepening Of The Activities Of The Assembly Of The Republic In The Areas Of Science And Technology

Original Language Title: Aprofundamento das actividades da Assembleia da República nas áreas da ciência e tecnologia

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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 529 /X

Deepening of the activities of the Assembly of the Republic

in the areas of Science and Technology

For recognizing the strategic importance of the areas of science, technology and

innovation in the human, cultural, social and economic development of the country, these have

deserved the monitoring, attentive and specialized, of the Parliamentary Committee on

Education and Science.

Within these areas, the regimental exercise of their competences

ordinary, the Assembly of the Republic, on the initiative of the President of the Commission

MP for Education and Science, he further added to the organization of sessions of

debate, in articulation with the Agency Science Viva, nicknamed " Cafés Science ".

In the present legislature, the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science has taken

also the initiative to designate specially dedicated Deputies to the areas of Science

and of the Space Policies, which would come to present Finals Reports of

follow-up in the final recta of this 4 th Legislative Session.

Of the evaluation carried out by both the Reports resulted in a clear enaltection

of the relief and international dimension of public policies pursued in these areas,

mainly at the European level, as well as the need for valorisation of the work

parliamentarian and its articulation with the scientific community.

It is recognized that Parliament, in this era of modernity, is increasingly

interjected by sensitive and controversial public debates in the environment sectors,

energy, medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, digital networks, communications, among others.

Considering the special and decisive importance of many of these subjects for the

towards and future of society, the Assembly of the Republic must admit as imperious to

qualification of your intervention in the monitoring of the agenda and evolution of all

those realities.

A more qualified intervention by Parliament in the area of science will allow

an unequivocal reinforcement of the desirable immunity of the decision-making processes to the groups of

pressure and representative lobbies of the different interests in question.

In this sense, assuming the constant recommendations in the Reports of the

Science and Space, approved by the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science, and

under the terms of the applicable constitutional and regimental provisions, the Assembly of

Republic resolves:

1. Constituting an institutional platform that promotes the meeting of the

politicians and scientists, in the sense of making available, in good time and of

instrumental form, qualified information, current and usable about

all the controversies and scientific implications that determine or that

are the consequence of public policies, anticipating or evaluating the

human, social, economic and environmental impacts of decisions

policies built in Parliament;

2. Proceed to a feasibility study for the eventual creation of a

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology;

3. Promoting the representations that allow for the future accession of the Assembly

of the Republic to the EPTA network (European Technology

Assessment);

4. Promoting the representations that allow for the future accession of the Assembly

of the Republic to the Interparliamentary Conference of Space.

Assembly of the Republic, June 30, 2009

The Deputies,

António Safe, Bravo Nico, Odete João, José Paulo Carvalho + 16

(6 PS + 4 PSD + 2 CFP + 1 BE + 1 CDS + 1 PEV + 1 N/INSC)

Note: Maximum 20 Deputies