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Guidelines for assessing progress made towards the objectives of the Tedis programme 
In order to achieve the objectives defined in Article 2, several measures, referred to in Article 3, will be 
taken and continued. The progress thereby achieved will then be assessed. 
1. For standardization, this will mean assessing the influence of the Tedis programme on: 
(a) the development and use of the Edifact standard in Western Europe; 
(b) the availability and use of conversion software and its conformity to the international Edifact 
standard. 
2. Interconnection of EDI services: assessment of the Tedis programme's impact on the capacity of data 
networks to operate together and the availability of Europe-wide EDI services. 
3. Legal aspects: examination of how the measures taken under the Tedis programme have helped ensure 
the legal validity of EDI data interchange in each Member State and how they have encouraged the 
introduction of 'paperless trading'. 
4. Security of messages: examination of how the Tedis programme has helped protect the EDI message itself 
and the security of EDI messages in an interlinked business environment. 
5. Multi-sector and Europe-wide projects: measuring how far support for the launching of multi-sectoral 
pilot projects has contributed towards the sectoral and geographical integration of EDI projects. 
6. Management: assessment of the value of studies and analyses carried out under the TEDIS programme 
to assess the impact of EDI on company management and its economic and social impact. 
7. Information campaigns: assessment of the impact of measures taken under the Tedis programme on the 
use of EDI in Western Europe. 
Proposal for a Council Decision concerning the conclusion of a Protocol extending the first 
stage of the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community 
and Malta 
COM(90) 558 final 
(Submitted by the Commission on 26 November 1990) 
(90/C 311/10) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in 
particular Article 238 thereof, 
Having regard to the recommendation from the Commission, 
Having regard to the assent of the European Parliament, 
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Whereas the Protocol extending the first stage of the Agreement establishing an association 
between the European Economic Community and Malta (') signed at Valletta on 5 December 
1970, should be approved, 
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: 
Article 1 
The Protocol extending the first stage of the Agreement establishing an association between the 
European Economic Community and Malta is hereby approved on behalf of the Community. 
The text of the Protocol is attached to this Decision. 
Article 2 
The President of the Council shall give the notification provided for in Article 2 of the 
Protocol. 
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal 
of the European Communities. 
O OJ No L 61, 14. 3. 1971, p. 2. 
PROTOCOL 
extending the first stage of the Agreement establishing an association between the European 
Economic Community and Malta 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
of the one pan, 
and THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MALTA, 
of the other part, 
HAVING REGARD to the Agreement establishing an association between the European Economic 
Community and Malta signed at Valletta on 5 December 1970, hereinafter referred to as the 'Agreement', 
HAVING REGARD to the Supplementary Protocol to the Agreement signed at Brussels on 14 December 
1988, extending the first stage until 31 December 1990, 
CONSIDERING THAT the present trade arrangements laid down for the first stage of the Agreement 
should be maintained,