A standard legal framework governing all pan-European research facilities should make it easier for nations to develop large shared projects, European Union (EU) research ministers said after reaching agreement on the scheme on 29 May.rnThe framework, proposed last year by the European Commission, means that countries will no longer have to debate afresh - under a hotchpotch of national and EU laws - the structure and governance of each European Research Infrastructure (ERI), as collaborations are called.
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