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Top Commission R&D official’s explanation of ‘do no significant harm’ principle rebutted by Christian Ehler
One of the lead legislators for the EU’s €95.5 billion R&D programme, Horizon Europe, is still worried about a last-minute decision to ask applicants to consider the environmental impact of their work, after hearing more about the plans.
MEP Christian Ehler (pictured) wrote to the European Commission’s top R&D official, Jean-Eric Paquet, on 19 May, expressing concern about the Commission’s plan to introduce the EU’s ‘do no significant harm’ principle to parts of the programme. He said that asking applicants to consider how their proposals would align with the environmental principle would “raise the complexity as well as [the] administrative burden” for them.
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