Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has received any report from the chairman of the United Kingdom stratospheric ozone review group in regard to co-ordinating ozone layer research in the European Economic Community following the meeting in October in the Netherlands of European ozone researchers.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe meeting in the Hague on 15 and 16 October to discuss coordination of EC/EFTA research on the ozone layer was called by the United Kingdom Government and the Commission of the European Communities. Officials of the Department were present and there was no need for a report from the chairman of the stratospheric ozone review group, who was also present. The Department is now taking steps to set up a co-ordination unit, based in the United Kingdom, following decisions taken at the Hague meeting.