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Through its participation in 325 FP7 projects to date, Edinburgh is consistently in the EU’s top 10 and the UK’s top five higher education institutions in terms of the number of participations in framework programme projects.
That is an important principle and it is fundamental to the ecosystems approach that we are taking and to improving ecosystem health.To date, we have seen 240 national development proposals for NPF3, including the establishment of a national ecological network.
Is that the only way forward, or can the CJAs be improved through guidance, as has just been talked about? I am happy to clarify the dates that are involved. As you said, the act was passed in 2005.
Are there any major barriers, either legislative or on the ground, to your continuing along the road that you are on? The experience to date is that there have been no showstoppers in the way of partnership working.
I have raised the issue with the Commission’s competition directorate and have asked it to investigate the matter. To date, however, we do not know whether that is going to happen.
The SGF said it was concerned about the potential for confusion if the date of a ban is staggered across the four nations and would support a delay to the ban to allow alignment.