Added to this, the report supports the creation of a budgetary structure for the Research Executive Agency and the European Research Council Executive Agency.

Under the amending budget a joint executive agency, the Research Executive Agency (REA), is created, for the other programmes under the Seventh Framework Programme for research too.

I therefore recognise the need for the research executive agencies; but again, I express my anxiety at the proliferation of agencies which, I have to say, historically have not been renowned for their effective delivery of value for money.

I share the rapporteur's doubts concerning the financing of the Research Executive Agency and the ERCEA, and also the not wholly coherent conclusion on the creation of budget item 06 01 04 12: Galileo Programme.

MIT (Metrocargo Intermodal Transport) is a project partly funded by the European Union under the Programme "Research for the benefit of SMEs" - Call ID "FP7-SME-2011" and managed by REA Research Executive Agency.