Cooperation Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Swiss Confederation on Research and Development in the field of wood, including cork, as a renewable raw material

The Community and Switzerland shall cooperate on the Community and Swiss programmes as described in Annexes A and B. The objective of the cooperation is to coordinate the Community and Swiss programmes and to prompt the carrying out of the programmes with a view to deriving greater benefit from the respective research efforts. The aims of this coordination are, in particular: (a) to select and define research projects; (b) to monitor the implementation of projects; (c) to evaluate the results and identify new research priorities. It shall be carried out through: (a) a detailed exchange of information on the respective programmes; (b) participation of representatives of one Contracting Party in the seminars and symposia of the other; (c) organization of visits by specialists from one Contracting Party to research institutes of the other; (d) regular close contacts between those responsible for the Community and Swiss programmes. Annex A, on the one hand, is devoted to the Community programme on wood, including cork, as a renewable material. The programme shall comprise, among others, wood production, forest-tree breeding and gene resource conservation, forest inventories. Annex B, on the other hand, concerns the Swiss programme on wood as an energy source and a renewable raw material.