European Parliamentary Technology Assessment
European Parliamentary Technology Assessment ( EPTA ) in Brussels is a network of technology assessment (TA) institutions that specialize in advising parliaments in Europe.
aims
The EPTA partners advise parliaments on the possible social, economic and environmental impacts of new sciences and technologies. The aim is to provide the highest quality impartial analysis and reports on developments such as: B. bioethics and biotechnology , public health , environmental and energy issues, information and communication technology , research and development . This activity is seen as a contribution to the democratic control of scientific and technical innovations. The roots go back to the 1970s in the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the US Congress . EPTA promotes technology assessment (TA) as an integral part of policy formulation in the parliamentary decision-making process in Europe and strengthens the networking of European TA institutions.
History and organization
The network was formally established in 1990 on the initiative of the British Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) under the patronage of the then President of the European Parliament , Enrique Barón Crespo . The network has a light structure, led by the EPTA Council and meetings of the directors of the EPTA partner institutions. The EPTA Council is the decision-making body of the network and consists of members or representatives of the advisory boards of the respective EPTA member organization. The council decides on organizational issues such as membership issues. The presidency rotates annually between full members. The respective chair organization coordinates the activities of the network and hosts the annual EPTA conference, the meeting of the council and the meeting of the directors.
Members
Parliamentary TA is institutionalized in various ways: This ranges from permanent parliamentary committees for TA, to special TA institutions that are part of the respective parliamentary administration, to independent institutions that have a mandate as a permanent parliamentary advisory body. The members are European bodies that carry out TA studies for parliaments. Full membership can be granted to an organization operating in Europe that is dedicated to technology assessment or related issues, serves a (supra-national, national or regional) parliament, has its own budget and secretariat, and carries out a work program, including publications on scientific and technical topics. Associate members are TA institutions that have a TA program and the resources to implement it, but do not meet other criteria for full membership. Associates are involved in all EPTA activities, but are not represented in the EPTA Council. Other institutions interested in EPTA's work can be granted observer status.
There are currently 12 full members:
- Scientific and Technological Options Assessment ( STOA ), European Parliament
- Tulevaisuusvaliokunta - Committee for the Future, Finnish Parliament
- Office Parlementaire d'Evaluation des Choix Scientifiques et Technologiques (OPECST), French Parliament
- Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB)
- Greek Permanent Committee of Technology Assessment (GPTCA), Greek Parliament
- Rathenau Instituut, Netherlands
- Teknologirådet - Norwegian Board of Technology (NBT)
- Center for Technology Assessment (TA-SWISS) , Switzerland
- Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), British Parliament
- Consell Assessor del Parlament sobre Ciència i Tecnologia (CAPCIT) - The Advisory Board of the Parliament of Catalonia for Science and Technology, Catalan Parliament, Spain
- Utvärderings- och forskningsätze - The Parliamentary evaluation and research unit, Swedish Parliament
- Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA), Austria
There are currently 10 associated members:
- Subcommittee on Science and Ethics of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , Strasbourg
- Biuro Analiz Sejmowych, Kancelaria Sejmu (BAS) - The Bureau of Research, Polish Parliament
- Government Accountability Office (GAO), Center for Science, Technology and Engineering (CSTE) of the United States Congress
- Spiral research center - Université de Liège
- Analytical department of the Federation Council of Russia
- Teknologirådet - Danish Board of Technology Foundation (DBT), Denmark
- Parliamentary Technical Advisory (ATP) of the Library of the National Congress of Chile
- Observatory of Technology Assessment (OAT), Portugal
- Office for Information of Science and Technology (INCyTU) of the Mexican Congress
- Research and Legislative Reference Bureau (RLRB), National Diet Library (NDL)
activities
EPTA organizes annual conferences aimed at parliamentary representatives and actively promotes cooperation between its members, sometimes in the form of joint projects. On the EPTA homepage all TA projects of the member institutions are listed and summarized in an extensive database.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer retrievable , search in web archives: STOA ( page no longer accessible , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Future Committee ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ OPECST ( Memento of the original from December 8th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ TAB
- ↑ Greek Parliament
- ^ Rathenau Institute
- ↑ NBT
- ↑ TA-Swiss
- ↑ Page no longer retrievable , search in web archives: POST ( page no longer accessible , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ CAPCIT
- ↑ Riksdagen ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ITA
- ↑ Council of Europe
- ↑ BAS
- ^ GAO-TA
- ↑ SPIRAL
- ↑ AD ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ DBT
- ↑ For example 2007-2009 on "Genetically Modified Plants and Foods", see project description in English .
- ↑ EPTA project database ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
