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The Commission calls for better public and private sector co-operation to protect critical infrastructure, such as nuclear power plants and vital transport and information networks, from terrorist attacks.

An EU forum has identified 35 projects for building large-scale European research infrastructures. These facilities are expected to become international 'talent and foreign brains' pools.

A survey of European research infrastructures is set to consider the uniqueness of these structures in various disciplines, their openness of access and their financial importance.

Sticking to the subsidiarity principle, the Commission maintains that the main responsibility for protecting critical infrastructure lies with the owners and operators in member states.   

The challenges for European collective security and the potential
role of research and technology in protecting against terrorist
attacks was discussed by EU policy makers and
industrialists at a New Defence Agenda conference on 3
February 2005.