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European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 96-06-06
From: News Distribution Manager <dist@hri.org>
MIDDAY EXPRESS
News from the Spokesman's midday briefing
Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi du Porte-Paroleb
06 / 06 / 1996
CONTENTS / CONTENU
[01] Conference on copyright in the Information Society successfully concluded
[02] Padraig Flynn condemns the latest Philip Morris advertising campaign on
passive smoking
[03] Edith Cresson: Renforcer et coordonner la recherche sur les maladies
neuro-dégénératives
[01] Conference on copyright in the Information Society successfully concluded
Agreement was reached at the June 2-4 Florence conference on Copyright and
the Information Society on the main issues to be tackled by future EC action in
the framework of the Single Market (see IP/96/416). The conference concluded
the consultation process which was initiated in July 1995 by the Commission's
Green Paper on copyright and related rights in the Information Society. It
discussed the results of these consultations and established, together with the
more than 350 written comments already received on the Green Paper, the need
for further Community legislation. Priority areas for EC initiatives include the legal
regime applicable to digital transmissions and the scope of reproduction rights.
[02] Padraig Flynn condemns the latest Philip Morris advertising campaign on
passive smoking
Philip Morris, the US tobacco conglomerate, has just launched a new advertising
campaign aimed at protecting the huge profits it earns from cigarette sales. The
key message of the campaign is that second hand tobacco smoke does not
present a meaningful health risk. "The public should greet this message with the
scorn it derserves. It comes after all from a company which once claimed that
if cigarettes really caused cancer, they would stop making them!" stated Padraig
Flynn, the European Commissioner with responsibility for public health.
[03] Edith Cresson: Renforcer et coordonner la recherche sur les maladies
neuro-dégénératives
Même si la Commission, à travers son programme-cadre de R&D, a lancé il y a
déjà plusieurs années d'importantes recherches sur l'encéphalopathie
spongiforme bovine (ESB) et les maladies neuro-dégénératives comme la
maladie de Creutzfeld-Jakob, il faut "redoubler d'efforts et accélérer les travaux"
a déclaré Mme Edith Cresson, Commissaire européen à la recherche, l'éducation
et la formation, dans un discours prononcé hier devant les directeurs généraux
de la recherche des quinze Etats membres de l'Union européenne. C'est
pourquoi les maladies neuro-dégénératives humaines seront l'une des priorités
du futur 5e programme-cadre, a-t-elle annoncé. Mais le seul effort de l'Union ne
peut suffire, et il faut par conséquent coordonner les travaux accomplis dans
l'ensemble des Etats membres et au niveau proprement européen. "Chacun doit
savoir ce que l'autre fait", a poursuivi Mme Cresson. "En procédant ainsi,
beaucoup de temps et de fiabilité dans les résultats seront gagnés, la moindre
réduction dans les incertitudes peut avoir des répercussions énormes".
MIDDAY EXPRESS
From EUROPA, the European Commission Server at http://www.cec.lu/
© ECSC - EC - EAEC, Brussels-Luxembourg, 1995, 1996
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