Negotiations with Mexico for a scientific and technological cooperation agreement (Report of the 12 July Ecofin Council - Item approved without debate)

Brussels, 15 July 2002

The Council adopted a Decision authorising the Commission to negotiate, on behalf of the Community, an agreement for scientific and technological cooperation with Mexico.

The aim is to provide for reciprocal access for researchers ot both parties' respective research and development activities under an agreement concluded for an initial period of five years and which may be renewed tacitly. The Council's Decision also establishes negotiating directives on the basis of which the Commission is to negotiate the agreement.

Council Press Release

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