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SOU 2008:30 Summary
work and cannot have as its primary task the handling of a large
number of project applications in various preparation groups.
The other questions that the Inquiry has dealt with are research
funding in the Swedish National Space Board and the logistics for
polar research.
As regards the logistics for polar research, the inquiry supports
the proposal submitted by the international panel of the
Committee for Research Infrastructures. The Inquiry proposes an
alteration concerning the placement of the Polar Research Secretariat
to integrate it with overall infrastructure planning within the
framework of the Committee for Research Infrastructures and also
research funding concerning environment and the climate.
All of the research-funding activities of the Swedish National
Space Board should be included in the new agency in the council
for nature, engineering and innovation and the council for climate,
environment and agricultural sciences. The activities directed at
research instruments and apparatus should be handled as part of
infrastructure planning.
The Inquiry has not been able to fulfil all parts of its terms of
reference. Legislative amendments have not been proposed. The
Inquiry’s assessment is that a completely new agency entails such
great volume of legislative amendments that the matter should be
handled by an organising committee. The Inquiry proposes that
this organising committee should be set up so as to be able to
handle all parts of the coming process for the implementation of
the new research and innovation agency.
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