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11. 10. 91 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 265/3 
Commission communication pursuant to Article 15 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 
3832/90 of 20 December 1990, applying generalized tariff preferences for 1991 in respect of 
textile products originating in developing countries 
(91/C 265/03) 
Pursuant to Article 15 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3832/90 of 20 December 1990 (»), 
the Commission gives notice that the following tariff ceilings have been reached: 
Order No 
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62 
68 On* 
Philippines 
Czechoslovakia 
Malaysia Amount of ceiling 
101 tonnes 
31 tonnes 
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(') OJ No L 370, 31. 12. 1990, p. 43.
COUNCIL RESOLUTION of 8 June 1993 on the quality of drafting of Community legislation

(93/C 166/01)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaties establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community,

Having regard to the conclusions of the Presidency of the European Council meeting in Edinburgh on 11 and 12 December 1992 to the effect that practical steps should be taken to make Community legislation clearer and simpler,

Whereas guidelines should be adopted containing criteria against which the quality of drafting of Community legislation would have to be checked;

Whereas although such guidelines would be neither binding nor exhaustive they would aim to make Community legislation as clear, simple, concise and understandable as possible;

Whereas these guidelines are intended to serve as a reference for all bodies involved in the process of drawing up acts for the Council, not only in the Council itself but also in the Permanent Representatives Committee and particularly in the working parties; whereas the Council Legal Service is asked to use these guidelines to formulate drafting suggestions for the attention of the Council and its subsidiary bodies,

HAS ADOPTED THIS RESOLUTION:

The general objective of making Community legislation more accessible should be pursued, not only by making systematic use of consolidation but also by implementing the following guidelines as criteria against which Council texts should be checked as they are drafted:

1. the wording of the act should be clear, simple, concise and unambiguous; unnecessary abbreviations, 'Community jargon' and excessively long sentences should be avoided;

2. imprecise references to other texts should be avoided as should too many cross-references which make the text difficult to understand;

3. the various provisions of the acts should be consistent with each other; the same term should be used throughout to express a given concept;

4. the rights and obligations of those to whom the act is to apply should be clearly defined;

5. the act should be laid out according to the standard structure (chapters, sections, articles, paragraphs);

6. the preamble should justify the enacting provisions in simple terms;

7. provisions without legislative character should be avoided (wishes, political statements);

8. inconsistency with existing legislation should be avoided as should pointless repetition of existing provisions. Any amendment, extension or repeal of an act should be clearly set out;

9. an act amending an earlier act should not contain autonomous substantive provisions but only provisions to be directly incorporated into the act to be amended;

10. the date of entry into force of the act and any transitional provisions which might the necessary should be clearly stated.
COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS of 17 June 1994 concerning greater cooperation in the field of archives (94/C 235/03)

The Council considers that archives constitute a significant part of the cultural heritage of European significance referred to in Article 128 of the Treaty establishing the European Community. The exploitation of archives can contribute to achieving the aim, also provided for in Article 128, of improvement of the knowledge of the culture and history of the European peoples.

It notes with interest the report on archives forwarded by the Commission and prepared by a group of experts further to its resolution of 14 November 1991 on arrangements concerning archives. Further to that report, it agrees on the importance of greater cooperation between the Member States and at Community level in the field of archives.

The Council calls upon the Commission to include archives in the communication which it has undertaken to make on the Community's cultural heritage and notes with interest among the actions contemplated in the report those relating to the following points:

- organizing a multidisciplinary forum to be held in the framework of the Community on the problems of the management, storage, conservation and retrieval of machine-readable data, inviting public administrations and national archives services, as well as representatives of industry and of research, to take part in the forum,

- stimulating, in conjunction with the Member States, exchanges of students and archivists via Community action programmes in the field of education and vocational training, or by other means,

- preparing and encouraging the publication in all the official languages of the Community of a practical guide to the procedures and other provisions in force in the Member States and in the Institutions for user-access to their archives,

- preparing and encouraging the publication of appropriate technical publications intended to disseminate research carried out and any research findings concerning the preservation and restoration of archives documents and material,

- using different technologies, encourage the publication of information with regard to archives material.

The Commission could obtain the technical assistance of the Member States in examining these points and use the expertise existing in non-governmental organizations such as the International Council on Archives.
COUNCIL RESOLUTION of 20 December 1995 on mutual recognition of the validity of medical prescriptions in the Member States (95/C 350/04)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Whereas, in its resolution of 30 November 1995 on the integration of health protection requirements in Community policies, the Council considers that the Community must pay particular attention to the impact on health of action proposed in a number of areas, including free movement of goods;

Whereas action to improve understanding of and address the impact on human health of the free movement of goods, in particular the free movement of medicinal products, should form part of the Community's overall strategy for action in the field of public health;

Whereas the internal market comprises an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured;

Whereas patients, in moving from one Member State to another, could in practice be prevented from purchasing medicinal products prescribed by an authorized medical practitioner in another Member State;

Whereas, pursuant to the Treaty and to Council Directive 93/16/EEC of 5 April 1993 to facilitate the free movement of doctors and the mutual recognition of their diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications (1), all discriminatory treatment based on nationality with regard to establishment and provision of services is prohibited in medical practice;

Whereas this resolution does not affect provisions governing the financing or reimbursement of the cost of medicinal products by national social security schemes;

Whereas, moreover, this resolution does not cover prescriptions for a non-exempt dose of a substance classified as a norcotic drug or psychotropic substance under United Nations international conventions,

CALLS on the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States and taking account of work in this area by the relevant international organizations, to look into the present position with regard to the mutual recognition of medical prescriptions in the Member States. This study should include analysis of:

- the significance of the problems arising in practice,

- the possibilities for proper identification of prescriptions by the pharmacist and the elimination of dispensing errors,

- situations of fraud resulting in particular from fraudulent printing of prescriptions or the use of stolen prescriptions.

(1) OJ No L 165, 7. 7. 1993, p. 1.
ANNEX IV.3

Honorary consuls already empowered to issue visas who, as a transitional measure, will be allowed to issue uniform visas (Text adopted by the council on 20 June 1994)

Honorary consuls will not be allowed to issue uniform visas. However, certain honorary consuls of Denmark and the Netherlands who are already authorized may provisionally continue to issue uniform visas.

This concerns the honorary consuls of the following towns:

(a) Denmark:

- Malmoe (Sweden)

- Goeteborg (Sweden)

- Stavanger (Norway)

(b) The Netherlands:

- Nassau (Bahamas)

- Manama (Bahrein).

The authorizations referred to in (a) and (b) shall be valid for three years from the date of entry into force of the system.
ANNEX III.1

COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS of 20 June 1994 concerning the possible application of Article K.9 of the Treaty on European Union to asylum policy

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union and, in particular, Article K.1 thereof,

NOTES the progress made in asylum policy cooperation in recent years on the basis, in particular, of the programme approved by the Maastricht European Council,

Aware of the need to intensify such cooperation, AGREES to implement as soon as possible the new instruments available to it under the Treaty on European Union. They will make it possible to improve the effectiveness of the measures adopted in the framework of the Union in implementation of the priority programmes to be drawn up.

HAS TAKEN cognizance of the Commission report on the application of Article K.9 to asylum policy, as provided for in paragraph 2 of the declaration contained in the Final Act of the Treaty on European Union.

NOTES that, in the Commission's view, application of Article K.9 would offer certain advantages. It considers however, like the Commission, that the time is not yet right to propose such application so soon after the entry into force of the Treaty on European Union. Nevertheless, it believes that it might be advisable to reconsider this matter at a later date in the light of experience and by the end of 1995 at the latest.
Commission communication concerning of Standard Gross Margins (SGMs) for the various agricultural enterprises and coefficients established pursuant to Commission Decision 85/377/EEC of 7 June 1985 establishing a Community typology for agricultural holdings (97/C 249/01)

In accordance with Commission Decision 85/377/EEC (1), as last amended by Commission Decision 96/393/EC (2) and in particular Articles 3 and 5 and Annex I thereof, the Member States have supplied the Commission with the SGMs and the coefficients for the reference period 1992 (calendar years 1991, 1992 and 1993 or agricultural production years 1991/92, 1992/93 and 1993/94).

The Commission publishes below the SGMs already supplied by Member States and the corresponding coefficients with a view to their use in connection with the Community typology for agricultural holdings.

(1) OJ No L 220, 17. 8. 1985, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 163, 2. 7. 1996, p. 45.

ANNEX

I '1992` Standard Gross Margins

The Standard Gross Margins (SGMs) shown below are the average values considered as representative for a three-year period centred around 1992. They are expressed in ECU:

- in the case of crop enterprises:

- per hectare, except for mushroom cultivation,

- for mushrooms, they are determined in ECU per 100 m² of area under crops, for all the annual successive harvests for use in the context of the structure survey. For use in the context of the FADN (heading 139), the SGMs have been divided by the average number of annual successive harvests, viz:

Belgium: 4,9,

Denmark: 4,3,

Spain: 3,0,

France: 4,0,

Ireland: 4,0,

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Netherlands: 6,0,

Austria: 6,5,

United Kingdom: 6,0,

- in the case of livestock enterprises:

- per head, except for poultry and bees,

- per 100 head for poultry,

- per hive for bees.

The list of headings corresponds to the list of characteristics for the 1993 Farm Structure Survey, with the addition of headings 139 and 348 of the FADN farm return. For Belgium and Netherlands more detailed SGMs are also published.

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Corrigendum to the Court of Auditors' annual report concerning the financial year (Official Journal of the European Communities C 349 of 17 November 1998) (1999/C 35/02)

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OPINION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MONETARY INSTITUTE under Article 109l(1) of the Treaty establishing the European Community and Article 50 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank, on a recommendation from the Council of the European Union for the appointment of the President, the Vice-President and the other members of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) (98/C 169/11)

1. The Council of the European Monetary Institute (EMI) was requested in a letter from the President of the Council dated 2 May 1998 to deliver its opinion on a recommendation of the same date by the Council of the European Union to the Governments of the participating Member States, at the level of the Heads of State or Government, to appoint:

(a) Willem Frederik Duisenberg as the President of the ECB, for a term of office of eight years;

(b) Christian Noyer as the Vice-President of the ECB, for a term of office of four years;

(c) as the other members of the Executive Board of the ECB:

(i) Otmar Issing for a term of eight years;

(ii) Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa for a term of seven years;

(iii) Eugenio Domingo Solans for a term of six years;

(iv) Sirkka Hämäläinen for a term of five years.

2. The Council of the EMI notes that the proposed candidates are persons of recognised standing and professional experience in monetary or banking matters.

3. The Council of the EMI has no objection to the recommendation relating to the appointment to the Executive Board of the ECB of all proposed candidates.

4. The Vice-President of the EMI has been charged with forwarding the opinion to the Governments of the Kingdom of Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Portuguese Republic and the Republic of Finland.

5. This opinion shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Done at Frankfurt-on-Main on 5 May 1998.

For the Council of the EMI

The Vice-President

L. A. ROJO
OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN MONETARY INSTITUTE at the request of the Council of the European Union under Articles 106(6) and 109f(8) of the Treaty establishing the European Community (the Treaty) and Article 42 of the Statute of the ESCB on a proposal from the Commission for a Council Decision on the consultation of the European Central Bank by national authorities on draft legislative provisions (the proposal) (98/C 190/05)

CON/98/14

1. The present opinion was requested in a letter dated 6 March 1998 from the Council of the European Union which, for this purpose, forwarded document COM(97) 725 final to the EMI. The document contained the proposal and its explanatory memorandum. The EMI is competent to deliver an opinion under Articles 106(6) and 109f(8) of the Treaty.

2. The objective of the proposal is to define the limits within which, and the conditions under which the authorities of the Member States shall consult the ECB on draft legislative provisions falling within its fields of competence. To a certain extent the proposal mirrors the legal situation currently applicable to the consultation of the European Monetary Institute.

3. The reference in the third recital to 'draft legislation` should be replaced by 'draft legislative provisions` as defined in Article 1 of the proposal.

4. It is suggested that in Article 1(2) the words 'or continuing implementation` are deleted. The meaning of these words is not clear and this uncertainty might give rise to problems for the interpretation and application of the proposal.

5. In general, the EMI agrees with the non-exhaustive enumeration of subjects on which the ECB is to be consulted as defined in Article 2 of the proposal.

6. The EMI welcomes the fact that, by comparison with Council Decision 93/717/EC, Article 3, paragraphs 2 and 3, and recital 6 of the proposal provide further information on the time-frame to apply to a consultation procedure. Whereas in most cases in the past the EMI has been able to meet even very short deadlines set by national authorities, experience has shown that both requiring the consulting authority to state the reasons for any urgency and allowing a request to be made for an extension to deadlines for replies might increase the efficient and orderly procedure followed when providing opinions.

7. With regard to Article 4 of the proposal, further consideration could be given to whether the efficiency of the procedure would not be increased by informing the ECB about national measures for the implementation of the Council Decision. In such a case it would be advisable to specify a date in Article 4 by which the ECB should be informed about such measures by Member States.

8. This opinion will be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Frankfurt, 6 April
OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK at the request of the Council of the European Union under Article 105a(2) of the Treaty establishing the European Community on a proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Council Regulation (EC) No 975/98 on denominations and technical specifications of euro coins intended for circulation (1999/C 77/05)

1. On 26 October 1998 the European Central Bank (ECB) received a request from the Council of the European Union for an ECB opinion on a proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Council Regulation (EC) No 975/98 on denominations and technical specifications of euro coins intended for circulation.

2. In accordance with Article 1091(2) of the Treaty establishing the European Community (hereinafter referred to as the Treaty), the ECB has taken over the advisory functions of the European Monetary Institute (EMI), which went into liquidation upon the establishment of the ECB on 1 June 1998. The ECB's competence to deliver an opinion is based on Articles 105a(2) and 109f(8) of the Treaty. In accordance with Article 17(5), first sentence, of the Rules of Procedure of the ECB, this ECB opinion has been adopted by the Governing Council of the ECB.

3. The objective of the proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) is to address, by amending the weight of the 50 cent coin and the definition of the edge of the 10 and 50 cent coins, the concerns expressed, on the one hand, by the vending machine industry and, on the other, by the European Blind Union. The ECB welcomes the proposed amendments, which will reduce the risk of fraud involving vending machines and the risk of confusion for blind and visually handicapped people.

4. This ECB opinion will be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Done at Frankfurt am Main on 16 November 1998.

The President of the ECB

Willem F. DUISENBERG
Information from the Commission - List of national authorities responsible for verifying compliance with Community provisions in the wine sector



Official Journal C 046 , 19/02/1999 P. 0169 - 0180



List of national authorities responsible for verifying compliance with Community provisions in the wine sector (1999/C 46/09) (List published pursuant to Article 79 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the wine market. This list cancels and replaces that published in Official Journal of the European Communities C 344 of 15 November 1986, page 161) >TABLE> GERMANY Competent authorities 1. Stelle des Bundes Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten Referat 424 Postfach 14 02 70 D-53107 Bonn 2. Stellen der Länder Baden-Württemberg Umweltministerium Baden-Württemberg Postfach 10 34 39 D- 70029 Stuttgart Bayern Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung, Familie, Frauen und Gesundheit D- 80792 München Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit Sächsische Straße 28-30 D-10707 Berlin Brandenburg Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten des Landes Brandenburg Postfach 60 11 50 D-14411 Potsdam Bremen Der Senator für Frauen, Gesundheit, Jugend, Soziales und Umweltschutz Große Weidestraße 4-16 D- 28195 Bremen Hamburg Behörde für Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg Tesdorpfstraße 8 D-20148 Hamburg Hessen Hessisches Ministerium für Jugend, Familie und Gesundheit Postfach 31 40 D-65021 Wiesbaden Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ministerium für Landwirtschaft und Naturschutz des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Postfach 5 44 D-19048 Schwerin Niedersachsen Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten Postfach 2 43 D-30002 Hannover Nordrhein-Westfalen Ministerium für Umwelt, Raumordnung und Landwirtschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen Schwannstraße 3 D-40476 Düsseldorf Rheinland-Pfalz Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Landwirtschaft und Weinbau Postfach 32 69 D-55022 Mainz Saarland Ministerium für Frauen, Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales des Saarlandes Postfach 10 24 53 D-66024 Saarbrücken Sachsen Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Soziales, Gesundheit und Familie Albertstraße 10 D-01097 Dresden Sachsen-Anhalt Ministerium für Emährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt Olvenstedter Straße 4-5 D-39108 Magdeburg Schleswig-Holstein Die Ministerin für Natur und Umwelt des Landes Schleswig-Holstein Postfach 62 09 D-24123 Kiel Thüringen Thüringer Ministerium für Soziales und Gesundheit Werner-Seelenbinder-Straße 14 D-99096 Erfurt >TABLE>
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Information from the Commission - List of airports corresponding to the definition of 'International Community Airport' given in article 197 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2454



Official Journal C 168 , 16/06/1999 P. 0005 - 0008
Nomination of members of the Committee on Commerce and Distribution

(1999/C 248/03)

The Committee on Commerce and Distribution was instituted by Commission Decision 81/428/EEC of 20 May 1981(1), as amended by the Act of Accession in respect of Spain and Portugal(2) and the Decision of the Council of the European Union of 1 January 1995 adjusting the instruments concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Union(3).

By decision of 27 July 1999 the Commission appointed the following as Members of the Committee from 1 October 1999 for a period of two years:

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(1) OJ L 165, 23.6.1981, p. 24.

(2) OJ L 302, 15.11.1985, p. 218.

(3) OJ L 1, 1.1.1995, p. 161.