Un des merites du programme a d'ailleurs ete, a ce propos, de permettre aux chercheurs europeens de mieux cerner tous les problemes a resoudre qui nous separent encore d'applications massives des biotechnologies dans le domaine agricole ou industriel : les connaissances progressent tres rapidement, mais les mecanismes en jeu sont complexes; leur comprehension et leur maitrise completes necessitent encore de nombreuses recherches.
- 3 - In this connection, moreover, one of the merits of the programme has been to enable European research workers to identify more accurately all the problems which are still to be resolved prior to the large-scale application of biotechnology in the agricultural or industrial sectors: although knowledge is advancing extremely rapidly, a complete understanding and mastery of the mechanisms involved will still require a great deal of research owing to their complexity.