CATALONIA - THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE PARLIAMENT OF CATALONIA FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 

Finding Topics

CAPCIT is the body charged with discussing and making decisions on its working plan and the issues about which it is necessary to prepare technology assessment (TA) reports. Therefore, not only politicians decide what issues must be worked on and what issues need to be addressed in a report, the members of the scientific and technical institutions are also involved from the outset on choosing the issues and giving advice on the suitability of devoting time and resources to specific topics. Furthermore, the following bodies may request CAPCIT to work on a particular topic: the Board of the Parliament of Catalonia and its committees. Once CAPCIT decides that it is necessary to address a particular topic or the issue has been put forward to the body by the Board of the Parliament of Catalonia or any of the parliamentary committees, a decision needs to be made as to who shall be responsible for drawing up the report. The various alternatives are as follows:

• One of the scientific and technical institutions represented in CAPCIT should prepare the report.
• Preparation of the report should be commissioned to a different scientific and technical institution and proceedings will be initiated to appoint said institution.

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