We are dealing with a Commission which has a joint research centre.

The Joint Research Centre can certainly make a major contribution to this - and not just in the nuclear field.

Even the Joint Research Centre, which now has more than 2 000 researchers, is active in these fields.

Obviously, the Joint Research Centre's independence should not be overlooked here.

My last point relates to the Joint Research Centre.

It therefore supports scientific studies conducted by the joint research centre and under the sixth framework programme for Community research.

A card security system has been set up by the Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

I am keen that particular attention is paid to this subject within the restructuring of the Joint Research Centre.

In addition, the Commission' s joint research centre should examine ways in which more effective warning might be given of seismic activity.

I am thinking here of the Joint Research Centre, whose achievements to date deserve to be highlighted.

We also look to the Commission to improve the management of contracts by the Joint Research Centre.

Now for the Joint Research Centre's specific objectives.

Finally, I should like to flag the interest we have in the Joint Research Centre, a subject that is well worth thinking carefully about.

The Joint Research Centre's role as an advisor on European policy needs to be enhanced.

Yesterday evening I went to see the exhibition hosted by the Joint Research Centre.

I see it as a task for the Joint Research Centre to lay the foundations for common safety standards of this kind.

The Commission's Joint Research Centre is also contributing to increasing our understanding of the link between environment and health in various ways.

In this connection, I think it imperative to hold a debate on the funding of the Joint Research Centre.

It is also our wish that the Joint Research Centre should lend its expertise to the effort to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

One further request: next year I should like us to devote some time quite specifically to the Joint Research Centre.

We have to have emergency measures to ensure that people with the appropriate skills are brought into the workforce at the Joint Research Centre.

A website that will be set up by the Joint Research Centre will constantly provide information on the current status of proposed alternative methods.

It could be carried out by the Joint Research Centre, and I would ask the Commissioner whether this is really being considered.

Where payment appropriations were concerned the Council accepted the allocation suggested for the Joint Research Centre.

Since 2007, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has been coordinating the further scientific development of the model.