HC Deb 26 June 1992 vol 210 cc346-7W
Mr. David Shaw

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list all the bilateral and multilateral agreements directly or indirectly negotiated by his Department or a body acting on behalf of his Department with(a) Switzerland and (b) Liechtenstein.

Mr. Waldegrave

My Department has no bilateral or multilateral agreements with Liechtenstein. The current agreements to which Swiss organisations are also party are as follows:

  1. i. Participation in International Organisations
    • European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN)
    • European Co-ordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences ('The Vienna Centre')
    • European Molecular Biology Conference and Laboratories (EMBC/EMBL)
    • European Science Foundation (ESF)
    • European Space Agency (ESA)
    • European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
    • Human Frontier Science Programme (HFSP)
    • Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL)
    • International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
  2. ii. Other Multilaterial Programmes and Studies
    • Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS)
    • DNA Repair and Cancer programme (under the EC Medical and Health Research Programme)
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    • Effects of atmospheric pollutants (European Top Chamber Project)
    • European Geograverse (EGT)
    • European Palaeoclimate (ESF Programme)
    • Greenland Ice Core Programme (GRIP) (ESF Programme)
    • Ocean Drilling Programme (ODP) (ESF European Consortium)
    • Polar North Atlantic Margin (PONAM) (ESF Programme)
    • Royal Society's European Science Exchange Programme (ESEP)
    • Studies on myeloid leukaemia and osteosarcoma (under the EC Readiation Protection Programme)
    • Study of hypoxic cell radiosensitiser RO-03–8799 in the radiotherapy of advanced cervical carcinoma
    • Western European Geological Surveys (WEGS)
  3. iii. Bilaterial Collaborations
    • Memorandum of Understanding with the Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (ISAR)
    • Mesozoic climate change: effects and causes (ETH, Zurich )
    • Microbiological studies in Jordan to simulate the effects of alkaline groundwater on waste repositories as net analogues of cement (NAGRA, Wettingen)
    • Study of the ecology and epizootiology of Lyme disease (University of Neuchatel)
  4. iv. Collaborations with Commercial Organisations
    • Analysis of SHT receptor systems in dementia (Sandoz Foundation for Gerontological Research)
    • Biotechnology (Ciba-Giegy)
    • Biotechnology (Sandoz)
    • LINK SPG selective drug delivery and targeting (Ciba-Giegy)
    • HIV Clinical Trials (Roche)