European Parliamentary Technology Assessment

[1] The EPTA partners advise parliaments on the possible social, economic and environmental impact of new sciences and technologies.

The common aim is to provide impartial and high quality analysis and reports of developments in issues such as for example bioethics and biotechnology, public health, environment and energy, ICTs, and R&D policy.

The members of the EPTA network[2] are European organizations, which carry out TA studies on behalf of parliaments.

Full membership can be obtained by a unit that operates in Europe, is devoted to TA or related activities, serves a (supra-national, national or regional) parliament, has its own budget and secretariat and has an active work program including publications on issues with a scientific and technological component.

[24] On the EPTA homepage an encompassing database lists and summarizes all TA projects of the member institutions.