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COMMISSION O F THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM( 83) 5V? final 
Brussels, September 1983
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL
Discussion paper for the special Council meeting of 
20-21 September on the question of improving the 
international competitive position of European firms
C0M(83) 5^7 final
I

In response to the Stuttgart Mandate, the special Council on 21 September 
will consider the decisions to be taken "on new Community actions making 
use of the Community dimension to improve the international competitiveness 
of enterprises".
During the last few months, the Commission has put forward a large 
number of communications and proposals on this subject.
This discussion paper for the special Council sets out the background 
to these proposals, summarizes them and lists the priority decisions 
which the Council must take in order to lay the foundations for renewed 
industrial development in Europe.
This paper, which does not attempt to deal with all aspects of the 
Community's future development, seeks to concentrate the Council's 
attention on certain vital decisions which have to be taken on economic 
and monetary policy, scientific and technical research and energy policy; 
it is on these areas that the restoration of European industry's international 
competitiveness depends.
List in annex.
/

INTRODUCTION
During ten years of crisis which have seen unemployment rise inexorably, 
the Community has agreed on measures to enable traditional industries 
now in decline (steel, textiles and shipbuilding) to adjust to the 
changing pattern of world supply and demand. It is, however, more or 
less powerless to encourage the new industrial developments which should 
take over as engines of growth, generators of wealth and the direct or 
indirect providers of jobs.
In general, and without much success, the Member States have preferred 
to behave in an uncoordinated fashion, adopting a vast array of national 
measures in attempts to turn national favourites into world champions. 
Such firms have however remained too feeble to get by without making 
individual arrangements to link up with their major non-European 
competitors.
Despite a few exceptions, whose rarity causes them to attract undue 
attention, the result is only too obvious: Europe is losing its share
of the world high-technology market and at home the markets for major 
consumer goods, machine tools and components are all dominated by 
outside competitors.
This is not for lack of financial aid from governments. It has been 
shown on a number of occasions that the total funds allocated by the 
Member States to research, assistance to firms and public procurement 
are in total roughly equal to those provided by the Community's major 
competitors. What has been missing is the ability to exploit the 
Community dimension.
The Commission does not claim that this would be a miracle cure. In 
many areas, national measures, whether by firms or governments, are and 
will remain of the first importance. However these measures must:
- be taken within the context of large unified market enjoying monetary 
stabi lity;
- form part of a coherent strategy agreed at Community level;
- dovetail with measures taken at Community level whenever this is 
required to achieve economies of scale, to improve cross-frontier 
synergic effects or eliminate duplication of effort.

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I. ECONOMIC AND MONETARY POLICY
1. The main outlines of a common strategy for the economy in general 
and for monetary policy have already been laid out. What is therefore 
needed now is to inject practical substance into the broad policy 
options universally recognized as having top priority.
In an area in which Member States retain the essential powers, implementing 
decisions by the Community are few and far between; we must therefore seek 
to ensure that national measures are sufficiently in line with the 
guidelines agreed in common. The compatibility of policies and the convergence 
of economic performances are a sine qua non both for preserving real economic 
cohesion in the Community (itself necessary for the unity of the large market) 
and for ensuring the effective impact of common measures in more specific 
areas - in the first place, the success of the EMS, which both depends on 
convergence and is a powerful factor in its favour. The Commission bases 
its action on the conviction that these conditions must be met.
2. Economic policies increasingly share the same broad orientation: 
a common diagnosis of the nature of the crisis, recognition of its 
structural components, and, for the solution of employment problems, 
priority for measures designed to develop productive activity through 
modern, dynamic and competitive firms.
In order to give a stronger impetus to convergence in policy 
guidelines and foster its practical translation into policy 
implementation, the Commission has proposed - and the Community has 
begun to implement - more clearly defined guidelines for achieving 
greater stability, revitalizing the economies and bringing down 
unemployment :
(a) permanent restoration of basic economic equilibria, particularly 
as regards prices;
(b) a legislative and tax framework favourable to productive activity 
in order to equip firms to face international competition more 
successfully and respond to the radical changes affecting demand 
and skills;
(c) implementation in the Member States of budgetary policies which 
give greater priority to productive activity by restricting the 
government "take", reducing deficits and restructuring budgets 
so as to boost expenditure on economic development^
(d) continuation of an active employment policy which attaches priority to 
giving young people work experience, helps adapt training schemes to 
the needs of structural change and improves the organization of the 
labour market.

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These polities emphasize:
- the impo''tence of greater flexibility in economic policy;
- the central role of productive investment in any return to a more 
favourable economic and social situation;
the importance of developing new technologies and innovation if the 
economies ere to be equipped to satisfy the new forms of demand.
These requirements, the essentia underpinning for convergence towards 
stable growth and a healthier employment situation, should be firmly 
spelt out at the highest level.
3. Specific Community action should be aimed at two main objectives:
improving the quality and predictability of the economic and monetary 
context, by strengthening the European Monetary System and making 
a positive Community contribution to a firmer international framework;
using the scale of the Community (completing the internal market in 
goods and services) and its credit rating (through its borrowing and 
lending policies) to facilitate the structural changes required.
Neither of these two lines of attack is new, but they will have to be 
pursued with far stronger commitment. International interdependence 
has now reached such a pitch - witness the effects of American interest 
rates and exchange rates on our economies - that a solid measure of 
organization is urgently demanded. The importance of economies of scale 
today, in terms both of markets and of financing, gives full force to 
the need to make a large European common market a reality.
A. Above and beyond the recent decisions, which set useful precedents, 
on such matters as borrowing and lending - an instrument now being used 
very much to aid small businesses - the European Council meeting in 
Athens must be the occasion for taking decisions in three areas which 
the Commission feels should be given first priority:
- strengthening the "zone of monetary stability" instituted by the EMS
The Commission calls on the Council to take at Athens a first significant 
decision, namely to develop the public and private role of the ECU (its 
status as a currency, elimination of the obstacles to its use, etc.) 
in accordance with the Commission's proposal of 24 May 1983.

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The Commission urges the European Council at the same time to 
restate its commitment to obtaining:
the extension of the exchange rate mechanism to all the Member 
States;
the reinforcement of these mechanisms;
the wider and more effective implementation of the convergence 
instruments.
- the establishment of a Community-wide market so that European 
saving - which is plentiful but not sufficiently tapped for expanding 
the productive economy - can be more effectively harnessed to the 
promotion of sound economic growth.
The Commission calls on the Council to accept at Athens the first 
practical measures it has proposed in its Communication of 18 April 1983.
the Community's participation, in a spirit of initiative, in mapping 
out the ground rules for a stable and credible international economic 
and monetary organization.
The Commission urges that a report should be made in Athens on the 
discussions already started on this subject by the Ministers of Finance.

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'1. STRENGTHENING THE INTERNAL MARKET
if European industry is to adjust to the declining growth of its traditional 
bases ana to tre development of new types of demand and technology, enormous 
efforts must be put into research, training and, in particular, investment. 
Until industry regains its confidence and invests at such a rate that the 
increase in production outstrips the increase in productivity, there is 
no hope of reversing the current trend in unemployment.
The Community bears direct responsibility for restoring confidence, for 
only it can act to speed up the introduction at Community level of the 
economic and monetary framework which has been outlined above. All the 
conditions allowing industry to exploit fully the potential dimensions of 
the Community's internal market must also be improved and strengthened.
This process is hampered by the large number of barriers to the free 
movement of goods and services which still exist in the Community.
The greatest encumbrance on European industry's future prospects is 
the lack of access to an internal market of a size which will allow 
firms to recoup the R&D costs needed for the development of new products 
and the most appropriate industrial organization of new processes.

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The Commission therefore requests that work should be speeded up in the 
Council (internal Market) on the proposals concerning the themes to 
which the Copenhagen European Council attached priority, so that decisions 
will be taken before the Athens European Council.
In addition to the formal proposals for achieving the internal market, 
the Commission has presented to the Council a number of considerations 
showing that better utilization of the Community dimension 
by European firms in certain essential sectors requires a Community 
industrial approach which defines the objectives and priorities enabling 
greater consistency to be achieved between national and Community measures. 
As regards the development of new technologies in particular, the amount 
of investment needed to make up Europe's leeway, the part played by private 
and public sector decisions in developing the market for these new 
technologies and the risks of duplication of effort by the various countries 
are such that precise objectives and clear priorities must be laid down 
at Community level to supplement the Community policies for improving the 
economic and monetary situation governing investment decisions.
The Commission has repeatedly tried to initiate discussion of these 
objectives and priorities. It did so in 1981 in a communication on 
Community industrial strategy (C0M(81)639 of 29 October 1981), the main 
guidelines of which were repeated in a document sent to the European 
Council of 21 and 22 March 1983 (C0M(83)150 of 15 March 1983). It 
subsequently fleshed out these guidelines for the fields of biotechnology 
(C0M(83)328 of 3 June 1983) and telecommunications (C0M(83)329 of 
8 June 1983) as it had done previously for information technologies.

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It took stock of these proposals in a communication to the Stuttgart 
European Council on prospects for the development of new policies 
(C0M(83)371 of 20 June 1983).
Although there is an obvious consensus on the general diagnosis, the 
Council has not yet got down to real discussion of the merits and forms 
of a Community approach to these matters.
This being so, the Commission would ask the special Council to call on 
the Ministers of Industry and Research to react to the guidelines proposed  
by the Commission in the abovementioned documents so that the Athens
European Council will be in a position to set objectives and priorities 
for the further development of Community policies.
Experience has shown that, if the Council is to embark on a worthwhile 
attempt to identify and discuss the large number of specific decisions 
that may be needed to speed up the development of new technologies in 
Europe, it must first agree on the objectives and methods of a Community 
approach that can complement national approaches and make them more 
effective.
III. ENERGY
Two oil shocks have taught Europe a tough lesson by making it aware just 
how dependent it is on imported energy. These lessons may well be 
forgotten every time the recession deepens, for if there is no sustained 
effort to reduce that dependence and no energy strategy, attempts to get 
the economy moving again will falter under the burden of the oil factor.
Following developments on the oil market in 1982, the Commission laid 
an important communication before the Council, proposing objectives and 
methods for a five-year programme of Community action to acquire better 
control over energy supply and demand (COMC83)315 of 15 June 1983).

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The Commission proposed taking advantage of the momentary respite 
offered by the situation on the energy market to consolidate what 
had already been achieved in the way of reducing dependence on 
outside sources, diversifying energy sources and restructuring energy 
demand.
Themes of action were identified which corresponded to the interests 
of the Community as a whole and offered definite prospects of 
enhancing the value of national efforts.
The various themes identified in the five-year action programme were 
not all accompanied by the same kind of detailed proposals: design
and development work on these proposals is still in hand.
The Commission is, however, forced to the conclusion that where 
the guidelines in the programme were accompanied by precise proposals 
the Council seems incapable of advancing towards an agreement on 
them. The obvious cause of this failure to make progress on the 
proposals for implementation is that there has been no prior 
decision on the role and objectives of Community action on 
energy: consequently it is not at all clear what the Member States
expect from the Community.
But the fact is that national and Community measures can only be 
combined if tasks are shared in the process of reaching an agreed target.
The Commission would accordingly ask the special Council to call on 
the Energy Ministers to come to a decision on the objectives, priorities 
and methods proposed in the five-year energy and energy research 
programme so that the Athens European Council can lay down general 
guidelines for Community action.
Once the will to act together in attaining the priority objectives 
agreed on by the Council has been confirmed, it will be possible 
to make progress towards practical measures and to devise flexible 
forms of involvement in Community action.

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IV. RESEARCH POLICY
Improving the competitive position of European industry on international 
markets also requires the creation of a European research area. This means 
not only increasing national efforts but also breaking down partitions, 
separating public and private national efforts, proposing priority targets 
for joint action in order to avoid wastage and duplication, bringing 
research teams into contact with each other and encouraging the dissemination 
of knowhow within the Community.
This was the essence of the proposals for a European scientific strategy 
that the Commission presented in the form of a framework programme for 
1984-87 (C0M(82)865 of 21 December 1982). What the proposals boiled down 
to were a system for attributing priorities and a method of approach.
The feature of this framework programme was the shift away from the 
traditional preponderance of nuclear research in the Community-financed 
research programmes and the increased importance attached to other 
Community priorities, in particular the promotion of industrial 
competitiveness.
The Commission felt that this would provide a basis for the Council to 
decide on the scale and thrust of Community measures to promote science 
and technology in relation to the Community's other activities and 
policies and in relation to the Member States' scientific and technical 
activities and policies.
Seeing the favourable reception the Council gave to this framework programme, 
the Commission produced a draft Council decision (C0MC83)260 of 17 May 1983) 
with an explanatory memorandum containing the clarifications requested 
by the Member States.
On this basis the Research Ministers approved the objectives of the 
1984-87 programme and its selection criteria. However, although the 
Council confirmed the need to increase Community R&D expenditure, there 
has still been no formal decision by which the Council commits itself 
to the financial obligations attaching to the objectives adopted.

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The Commission would therefore ask the Council to give an undertaking 
concerning the continuity of the action and its financing in the 
medium term by adopting the decision on the framework programme of 
Community scientific and technical activities for 1984-87.
V. PRIORITY FOR DEVELOPING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
The Commission has picked out three examples of sectors where the need 
for Community action to speed up technological developments in the 
European industry appears particularly evident: information technologies;
telecommunications and biotechnology.
Where the proposed Community measures will impose a charge on the budget, 
the financial arrangements will be fitted into the four-year research 
programme. But these measures will also be part of a broader perspective 
as a result of the indications they give to industry on the Community's 
objectives and priorities:
.  in the field of information technologies, a strategic sector par excellence, 
a proposal for a decision adopting the Esprit programme is before the 
Council.
The strategic objective of the measure was agreed jointly by industry 
and the Member States: it is,within the next ten years, to catch - and
even overtake - competitors throughout the world on the technological 
front.
The Council has been very positive in its attitude to the Esprit 
programme, as demonstrated by the decisions on the pilot phase and the 
impetus that the Stuttgart declaration sought to give on this very 
point.
But that is not enough. The decisions required to launch the Esprit 
programme are not of the same type as those on one-off measures for 
which appropriations are entered each year in the budget. The Council 
must now give an undertaking on the objectives of the action and the 
means for seeing it through.

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The Commis?.ion would therefore ask the Council:
- +o approve xhe objectives of the Esprit programme;
- t) give political and legal undertakings on the continuity of the action 
w'thin th e limits laid down in the first strategic programme;
-  to allocate to it the planned financial resources to back up the efforts
of the industrial groups associated in the implementation of the programme.
Only in this way will the Community be able to advance beyond the state of 
a rather empty agreement on the diagnosis and the intentions and set out 
steadfastly on the path of the third technological revolution.
The effort that the Commission is calling for in the field of information 
technologies would, however, be incomplete if the Community were not to act, 
as mentioned above, in the most important area of application - telecommunicatios.
. for telecommuni cations and biotechnology the Commission has proposed guidelines. 
What is wanted now is a political stimulus from the Council for the work. This 
work will indeed be continuing on the basis of proposals that the Commission 
will be presenting early in October.
In particular the Commission would ask the special Council to call on the 
Ministers of Industry and Research to take decisions on the priority objectives 
for Community action selected by the Commission in those two fields, so that 
the European Council will be in a position to confirm the need for a Community 
approach to give industry the backing it requires to:
- master technological progress
- make large-scale operation possible
- stimulate the possibilities of expanding public and private demand for these 
new technologies.

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CONCLUSION
The annex to this memorandum gives the references of the many proposals and 
communications the Commission has presented in its desire to help, directly 
and indirectly, restore European industry to a sound competitive position on 
international markets.
The Commission has seen that all too often examination of these proposals 
gets bogged down in the details of implementation because no prior political 
agreement has been reached on some pattern-setting decisions which provide a 
commitment for the future or on the fundamental objectives of Community action 
in whatever field is involved.
The Commission would call for a return to the decision-making methods which, in 
the early years of the Community's existence, produced the policies on which it 
is based.
In picking out the proposals linked to the subject of industrial competitiveness, 
it has listed the main political decisions which it considers necessary to 
inject new life into the Community system in this area which is so essential 
to the future of the Community and its inhabitants.
The decisions are ready to be taken. It is for the Council to take them.

ANNEXE
I. ECONOMIE ET MONNAIE
- APPROFONDISSEMENT DU SYSTEME MONETAIRE EUROPEEN (Communication et 
projet de résolution) - COM(82) 133 final du 18.3.1982
- PROMOTION DU ROLE INTERNATIONAL DE L'ECU (Communication) - 
COM(83) 274 final du 24.5.1983
- INTEGRATION FINANCIERE (Communication) - COM(83) 207 final du 
18.4.1983
- INVESTISSEMENT :  Communication de la Commission sur le problème de 
l'investissement (C0M(82) 365 du 8.6.1982), sur les initiatives 
destinées à promouvoir l'investissement (C0M(82) 64 du 8.10.1982) 
et sur les mesures fiscales et financières en faveur de l'inves­
tissement (COM(83) 218 du 28.4.1983).
II. MARCHE INTERIEUR ·
1· PRIORITES RECONNUES PAR LF CONSEIL EUROPEEN DE COPENHAGUE  
4 décembre 19821
- certification des produit* en provenance det pey* tiers (*) ;
CCH(SO) 35 du 07.02.80
- Instruisent de politique comaerciele i  C0H(83) 87 du 28.02.83
- formalités eux frontières :
COM(82) 859 du 23.12.82
• document unique :  -  C0H(S3) 162 du 29.03.83
■  '  . Kèee directive TVA :  C0M(82>\402 du 05.07.82
• facilitation de* formalité* ?
COH(82) 189 du 16.04.82
. contrôla des personne# ;·CûH(82) 4Q du 02.07.82.  
. Importation temporaire
2. SIMPLIFICATION DES PROCEDURES DE DECISION
- instruments de nesurege :  C0M(80) 850 du 15.12.80
« s
- matériaux de construction 1  COM(78) 449 du 22.11.7^.
3. ELIMINATION DES OBSTACLES AUX’ECHANGES·  -
- Denrées alimentaires: objets céramiques C0M(74)2173 du 20.12.74
agents d'aromatisation C0M(80)286·.du. 27.5.83 
agents conservateurs COM(8D)?12 du 22.5.80
- Produits pharmaceutiques C0M(80)789 du 28.11.80
- Services: assurance directe autre que sur la vie (2ème directive;
responsabilité civile automobile 
assistance touristique-
* L'.adoption de cette proposition permettra l'adoption de 20 autres 
propositions dans le domaine des entraves techniques aux échanges,

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- Transports: prise en considération des seuls tracteurs pour l'exiQ^-ice 
des autorisations de transport, 
communautarisation des autorisations bilatérales 
concernant les transports spéciaux. C0M(80)823 du 9.12.80 
*  .  COM(82)718 du 10-11.32
■  transport pour compte propre C0M(78)479 djj 28.9.78
COM(78)772 du 30.01.79
4. AMELIORATION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT JURIDIQUE DES ENTREPRISES.
- contrôle des comptes (Sème directive) C0M(78) 168 du 21.4.78
- groupement d'intérêt économique européen C0M(73)2046-du 21.12.73
- procédure arbitrale pour éliminer les doubles impositions 
en cas de correction de bénéfices entre sociétés associées.
- responsabilité du fait des produits C0M(761372 du 23.7.76
I H .  INDUSTRIE
- enc adrem ent
- STRATEGIE COMMUNAUTAIRE (communication) - COM (81) 639 final/?, 
du 29.10.81
- STRATEGIE INDUSTRIELLE DE LA COMMUNAUTE (communication) - 
COM(83) 150 final du 15.3.83
- PERSPECTIVES POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DE POLITIQUES NOUVELLES 
(communication au Conseil européen) - C0M(83) 371 final du 11.6.83.'
- DbVEL0PPEMENI_DE_LA_TEÇHN0LgGIE_A\/ANÇEE
- PREMIER PROGRAMME STRATEGIQUE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHE ET DE DEVELOP­
PEMENT R^.ATIF AUX TECHNOLOGIES DE L'INFORMATION (ESPRIT) 
(Proposition de décision) - C0M(83) 258 final du 2.6.83
- BIOTECHNOLOGIE :  LE ROLE DE LA COMMUNAUTE (communication) - 
COM(83) 328 final du 3.6.83
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS (communication) - COM(83) 329 final du 8.6.83.

IV. R E C H E R C H E - D E V E L û P P E M E NT
A-  PRPPRAP.MF CAPRE DF l.A R-D
1. Programme cadre des activités scientifiques et techniques 
communautaires 1984 - 1987, dernière communication d'ensemble, 
C0M(83) 260 du 17.5.83 sur laquelle le Conseil a statué le
28.6.83.
2. Structures et procédures de la politique commune dans le 
domaine de la Science et de la Technologie, C0MC83) 16.3.83.
3. Evaluation des programmes de R&D communautaires, C0M(83) 1,
19.1.83.
4. Promotion de l'utilisation des résultats de la R£D financée 
par la Communauté, C0M(83) 18, 3.3.83.
5. Stimulation de l'efficacité de La recherche au sein de la 
Communauté, COM(82) 808, 3.12.82, décision du Conseil 28.6.83
B . PROPOSITIONS DE PROGRAMMES DE RSD
■  â£Î29G§_Q2y£ËiiË§„Ët!I!20Î r3nt_ta_réor2£ntat2on__de_j: .a_st_ratéçj2e
1. Technologies d'information
. Réalisation d'une phase préparatoire à un prooramme communautaire 
de recherche et développement dans le domaine des technologies 
d'information, C0MC82) 737; décision du Conseil 21.1? 82
. Prc..iier programme stratégique européen -du recherche et de
développement relatif aux technologies de l'information (ESPRIT), 
C0M(83) 258; décision du Conseil 2.6.83.
2. Programme de R&D dans le domaine de la recherche technologique 
fondamentale, C0MC83) 350 du 20.6.83.
3. Biotechnolgies :  le rôle de la Communauté, C0M(83) 328 du 8.6.83 ;  
traité au Sommet de Stuttgart.
v » .
4 .  PVD
.  Premier programme de R&D "Science et Technique au Service du 
Développement" (1983 - 1986), C0M(81) 212 du 4.5.81; 
décision du Conseil 3.12.82.
. Programme d'aide au développement des capacités indogènes 
de recherche scientifique et technique des PVD (1984 - 87), 
COT(83) 354 du 8.6.83.

4
• QGGEsyllGZr^GCiEOtËîl9ü_d§s_programmes_existant s
1. Programme de recherche et d'enseignement (82 - 86) dans Le 
domaine de La fusion thermonucléaire contrôlée, C0M(82) 350; 
décision du ConseiL 25.5.82.
2. Programme de RSD dans Le domaine de L'énergie non-nueLéaire 
(1983 - 87), COM(83) 311 du 16.6.83.
3. Programme d'action de recherche dans Le domaine du développement 
de L'énergie nucléaire de fission (1984 - 87), C0M(83) 300
du 28.5.83.
4. Programme de RSD (1982 - 85) dans Le secteur des matières 
premières, C0M(S2) 402; décision du ConseiL 17.5.82.
5. Soutien financier aux projets piLotes et/ou de démonstration 
en sidérurgie, conformément aux dispositions de l'article 55 
du traité instituant La Communauté européenne du charbon et 
de L'acier, C0M(83) 135; décision du 17.3.83.
'RECHERCHE PROPRE DE LA COMMUNAUTE/CCR
1. Programme de recherche à exécuter par Le Centre Commun de 
Recherche pour La Communauté Européenne de l'énergie atomique 
et pour La Communauté Economique Européenne (1984 - 87),
COM(83) 327 du 8.6.83.
2. Instauration du ConseiL d 'Adrninistration du CCR, C0M(83) 377 
du 20.6.83.
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V. ENERGIE- 5 -
COM(62)357 Finfll - 11 October/ 1982
Proposition de règlement (CEE) du Conseil concernant l'octroi d'incitations 
financières dans le domaine de l'utilisation rationnelle de l'énergie.
Proposition modifiée par les documents C0M(83)376 du 14 juin, 1983 et 
COM(83)454 du 4 juillet 1983).
COM(83)305 Final - 2 juin 1983
Stratégie énergétique de la Communauté :  évolution et nouvelles lignes 
d'action.
COM(83)315 Final - 15 juin 1983
Energie et recherche énergétique dans la Communauté :  un programme 
quinquennal d'action et son financement.
C0M(83)458 Final - 3 août .  1983
Proposition de réglement (CEE) du Conseil concernant l'octroi d'un soutien 
financier à des projets de démonstration dans les domaines de l'exploitation 
des sources énergétiques alternatives, des économies d'énergie et de la 
substitution des hydrocarbures.
COM(Sj)555 Final - 3 août 1983
Proposition de règlement (CEE) du Conseil concernant l'octroi d'un soutien 
financier à des projets de pilote industriel et de démonstration dans le 
domaine de la liquéfaction et gazéification des combustibles solides.
COM(83)381 Final - 21 juin 1983
Projets de démonstration dans le domaine de l'énergie.
COM(83)309 Final - 10 juin 1983
Propositions pour une politique équilibrée des combustibles solides. 
COM(B3)447 Final - S août 1983
Proposition de règlement (CEE) du conseil concernant un soutien financier 
communautaire en faveur des industries productrices de combustibles solides 
de la Communauté.
COM(83)174 Final - 15 avril. 1983
Le nouveau régime des charbons à coke et cokes destinés à la sidérurgie 
de la Communauté.

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VI. INNOVATION
COM (80) 755 final 18.11.80
COM (81) 620 final 20.10.81
COM (82) 251 final 15.06.82
COM (83) 277 final 11.05.83Industrial development and innovation
A policy for industrial innovation 
- strategic lines of a Community 
approach
Plan for the development of a European 
infrastructure for innovation and technology 
t ransfer
COM (83) 18 final 03.01.83
COM (83) 241 final 07.06.83Promoting the utilization of the results 
of Community-sponsored R&D
Proposal empowering the Commission to 
help finance innovation within the 
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