The European Parliament is revamping its science advice unit in the hope of making the advisers’ work more relevant to MEPs and the public. Safya Khan-Ruf reports.
Since its foundation in 1987, the Science and Technology Options Assessment office, or Stoa, has sought to provide MEPs with information to help them legislate on sensitive technical issues.
The office has gained respect for the quality of its assessments—but critics say it has mainly worked in areas of interest to the few MEPs who choose to take ownership of its work. Some of these, such as Malcolm Harbour, a British MEP who was a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group and chairman of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, left the Parliament after the elections in May.
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