EC launched an independent science advisory group

The European Commission's Scientific Advisory new mechanism, or SAM, which was officially launched this week, the leader of the seven scientists who completed the first High-Level Group has announced that a scientific adviser.

Seven members of the High Level Group is an open call for candidates and were selected in accordance with the recommendations of an independent commission of identification.

Janus M Bujnicki, and bioinformatics and protein engineering professor, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland is the head of the laboratory; Pearl Dykstra, sociology professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Elvira Fortuna to, materials science, science and technology, Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal faculty professor in the Department; Rolf-Dieter Hauler, the Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN; Julia Slang, chief scientist at the Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; Cerci Villain, Henri Poincare Institute in Paris, France Director; C Henrico Wegener, executive vice president, chief academic and provost of the Technical University of Denmark.

The mechanism aims to scientific advice, the Commission has access to the best possible scientific advice, to be independent of political or institutional interests.

The European Commission, the launch of the SAM, together with € 6 million (US $ 6.5 million), with a grant from the European academies and learned societies, according to a "new approach to the use of the Commission's policy-making advice from an independent science" is celebrated.

It will gather evidence and views of different disciplines and perspectives, taking into account the specifics of the EU's policies, and to ensure transparency.

It will complement the in-house scientific service, the Joint Research Centre of the expert committees. The group's first meeting will be held in January 2016.

SAM is being launched for the first six months of Jean-Claude Junkers and European Commission President Carlos Medes, Commissioner for research, science and innovation draws on the experience of May 2015, the Member States and throughout the world, and this is predicted based on the High-level group of independent scientific experts and a larger relationship with the National Academy and other organizations.

Medes said: "We are pleased that the Scientific Advisory Mechanism is now up and running with the help of the scientific community have been a tremendous help to me coming from eminent scientists .

"Seven separate group of scientists I have appointed an independent scientific advice to the Commission's policy-making will be of use to a new level. The European Commission will be able to rely on the advice of its independent policy where the complex is a series of high-level scientific input."

More than 150 names were originally proposed a high-level group is a member.

In a speech in September stressed Medes mechanism would ensure the creation of new drugs, new foods, new technologies and so on security decisions, which are facts, and not based on fiction.

"We want to make the right decisions in a crisis. The evidence on which to base our decisions we have to make sure that we have a strong and impartial," he said.