The European Commission has launched an independent science advisory group

The European Commission's new Scientific Advisory mechanism, the official scientific advisers or SAM will be the first high-level group with the announcement of seven leading scientists, was launched this week.

Open call for nominations for the seven members of the High Level Group, and following the recommendations of the committee of independent persons selected.

They Janis M. Buckskin, professor of bioinformatics and protein engineering, molecular and cell biology, Warsaw, Poland, the head of the International Institute laboratory; Pearl Dijkstra, sociology professor at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Elvira Fortunate, science and technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal faculty professor in the department of materials science; Rolf-Dieter Hebe, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERT; Julia Slang, chief scientist at the Met Office, Teeter, UK; Cleric Villainy, Henri Poincare Institute in Paris, France, Director; C Hernia Reneger, executive vice president and chief academic officer and provost, Technical University of Denmark.

The purpose of the institutional mechanism of the Scientific Advisory Committee or an independent political interests have access to the best possible scientific advice is to ensure that.

The European Commission, the launch of the center, the European academies of a € 6 million (US $ 6.5 million) in grants and learned societies, "according to an independent scientific advice to the Commission's new approach to policy-making" is.

The idea is to bring together different disciplines and approaches evidence and take into account the characteristics of the EU policy-making will ensure transparency.

This is the home of Joint Research Centre services and will complement the existing specialist committees. Group's first meeting will be held in January 2016.

Jean-Claude Junkers and European Commission President Carlos Medes, in this world and the experience of member states in May 2015, based on a High draws and research, science and innovation announced by the Commissioner for six months after being launched SAM Level Group, an independent science advisers and a strong relationship with other agencies and national academies.

Medes said: "I support the Scientific Advisory mechanism to help the scientific community is now up and running from the many prominent scientists have been happy with the big ..

"I have appointed a group of seven independent scientific advice on the development of outstanding scientists will use the policy of the Commission to a new level. The European Commission requires a high level of scientific input in a variety of complex policy issues will rely on independent advice."

More than 150 names were put forward by a member of the High Level Group.

Medes help create a mechanism so new drugs, novel foods, new technologies and solutions for the security, fiction than reality, not according to that noted in September.

"We want to ensure that the right decisions in a crisis. We have the evidence to justify decisions to ensure that a robust and impartial," he said.