# Council Decision of 29 April 2008 on the adoption of the Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel and on the multiannual technical guidelines for this programme (2008/376/EC), Article 21: Tasks of the Advisory Groups

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the coal- and steel-related RTD aspects respectively, each Advisory Group shall advise the Commission on the following:
(a) the overall development of the Research Programme, the information package, as referred to in Article 25(3), and future guidelines;
(b) the consistency and the possible duplication with other RTD programmes at Union and national level;
(c) the setting-out of the guiding principles for monitoring RTD projects;
(d) the relevance of the work being undertaken on specific projects;
(e) the research objectives of the Research Programme listed in Sections 3 and 4 of Chapter II;
(f) the annual priority objectives listed in the information package and, where appropriate, the priority objectives for dedicated calls for proposals, as referred to in Article 25(2);
(g) the preparation of a manual for evaluating and selecting RTD actions, as referred to in Articles 27 and 28;
(h) the rules, procedures and effectiveness concerning the evaluation of proposals for RTD actions;
(i) the number, competence and organisation of the Technical Groups, as referred to in Article 24;
(j) the drawing-up of dedicated calls for proposals, as referred to in Article 25(2);
(k) other measures when requested to do so by the Commission.

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