02/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CRPM) wants to be consulted by the European Commission on the 6th Research-Development Framework-Programme and on the preparation of a communication on the regional dimension of the European Research Area. At a conference on the "territorialisation" of research-development policy, in Valence end-February, the President of CRPM, Stig Ostdhal said that peripheral regions had only benefited from 15% on the contracts under the 4th framework-programme. (The CRPM document on the "territorialisation of research-development and innovation policies" may be consulted on the organisation's web site: http://www.crpm.org. )