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COMMISSION
OFTHE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
GeneralSecretoriaCOM(82)407 final
Brussels,24June1982
FOROFFICIAL USEONIV
Amendedproposalfora
COUNCILDECISION
offeringsupportunderthe.Communitysupportmechanisminthefieldof
data-processing underCouncilRegulation(EEC)No1996/79toBurovoor
Systeemontwikkeling ofUtrechtandChristianRovsingofCopenhagen
(PresentedbytheCommissiontotheCouncilpursuant
tothesecondparagraphofArticle149oftheEEC
Treaty)
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'EXPLANATORY:-;v
This isanamendment toadraft Council Decision -already submitted
bytheCommission totheCouncil (Commission Reference SG (82)D5522
of16.4.1982 ,Council Reference 6283 /82of20April 1982 )inorder to
align itwith amodification ,suggested bythePresidency which the
Commission accepts .
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Amended proposal for a
COUNCIL DECISION
offering support under theCommunity support mechanism inthefield
ofdata-processing under Council Regulation (EEC )N°1996 /79to
Buro voor Systeemontwikkeling ofUtrecht andChristian Rovsing of
Copenhagen
THE COUNCIL OFTHE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
Having regard totheTreaty establishing theEuropean Economic
Community ;
Having regard toCouncil Regulation (EEC )N°1996 /79of11September
1979 onaCommunity support mechanism inthe field ofdata-processing
(1)and inparticular Article 8thereof ;
Having regard totheproposal from theCommission ;
Whereas the Commission has received anapplication for support for
afeasibility study for "multi-lingual facilities forvideotex
information systems ",tobefollowed ,ifsuccessful ,byapilot project
(hereinafter theproject )inresponse toitssecond call forproposals
for software and application projects from Buro voor Systeem -
ontwikkeling ofUtrecht andChristian Rovsing ofCopenhagen ;
Whereas the Commission has intended proceeding with the proposal and
has submitted accordingly totheAdvisory Committee for theManagement
and Coordination ofData-Processing Programmes aDraft Decision
accompanied byareport ;
Whereas the Committee didnot give afavourable decision onthe
Commission 'sDraft Decision with the qualifying majority required by
the said Regulation ;
Whereas the project covered bythe application corresponds with the
conditions ofthe said Council Regulation andwith the aims and
criteria ofthemultiannual programme (1979 to1983 )adopted bythe
Council initsDecision 79/783/EEC (1);
Whereas this project islikely tolead tothe development ofasystem
which would include ,indue course ,firmware for videotex terminals
that will translate information from anunambiguous intermediate
language (eg.Esperanto )into agiven natural language and ,thus ,help
toovercome the language barrier totheopening upofthe Common Market
tothe widespread provision ofinformation services from initially
mono-lingual databases through videotex ,andappears ,therefore ,tobe
ofCommunity interest within the terms ofArticle 3ofthe said Council
Regulation ;
Whereas itisthe Commission 'sopinion that theproposers should
concentrate inthefirst instance ontheproblems posed bytranslation
from theintermediate language and that this point becovered inthe
support contract ,
(1)OJL231of13September 1979 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Article 1
Buro voor Systeemontwikkeling ofUtrecht andChristian Rovsing of
Copenhagen shall beoffered thesupport ofagrant of100% ofcosts up
toamaximum of100.000 ECU for afeasibility study tobepaid asthe
work proceeds .
Article 2
This support shall bethe subject ofacontract tobenegotiated speci­
fying thedetails oftheproject and thedetailed conditions forthe
support .The offer ofsupport shall lapse if'this contract benot
concluded within four months ofthe date ofthis Decision' orwithin
such longer period that attherequest oftheproposers theCommission
shall have granted inwriting .
Article 3 ;
This Decision isaddressed to :
Buro voor .Systeemon twikke 1ing
Kon .Wilhelminalaan .3
Postbus 8348
3503 Utrecht 1
The Netherlands
Christian Rovsing International A/S
H.C. Andersons Blvd 12
1553 Copenhagen V
Denmark .
Done inBrussels . For the Council