Maria da Graça Carvalho is full member of the ITRE Committee - Industry, Research and Energy
The ITRE Committee is responsible for:
- the Union's industrial policy and the application of new technologies, including measures relating to SMEs;
- the Union's research policy, including the dissemination and exploitation of research findings;
- space policy;
- the activities of the Joint Research Centre and the Central Office for Nuclear Measurements, as well as JET, ITER and other projects in the same area;
- Community measures relating to energy policy in general, the security of energy supply and energy efficiency including the establishment and development of trans-European networks in the energy infrastructure sector;
- the Euratom Treaty and Euratom Supply Agency; nuclear safety, decommissioning and waste disposal in the nuclear sector;
- the information society and information technology, including the establishment and development of trans-European networks in the telecommunication infrastructure sector.