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Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation No 11 concerning the abolition 
of discrimination in transport rates and conditions, in implementation of Article 79 (3) of 
the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 
European Economic Community, and in particular 
Article 75 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee. 
Whereas, Council Directive ... makes provision for 
carriers for hire or reward and carriers for own 
account to use hired vehicles; 
Whereas the definition of own-account carriage of 
goods by road contained in Article 9 of Regulation 
No 11 (') does not provide for the use of hired 
0) OJ No 52, 16. 8. I960, p. 1121/60. vehicles; whereas it is therefore necessary to amend 
the said Regulation, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Article 9, first indent, of Regulation No 11 is hereby 
replaced by the following: 
'— the goods must be carried by vehicles owned 
or obtained on deferred terms or hired by the 
undertaking, provided that in the latter case 
they meet the conditions of Article 2 of 
Directive ...' 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 
1984. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
Amendment to the proposal for a Council Decision promoting a European infrastructure 
for innovation and technology transfer (') 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to Article 149 (2) of the EEC Treaty 
on 27 May 1983) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee (3), 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 
European Economic Community, and in particular 
Article 235 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission 
o, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
(*) OJ No C 187, 22. 7. 1982, p. 4. 
(l) The amendments with respect to the original proposal 
(OJ No C 187, 22. 7. 1982, p. 4) are printed in bold 
type. Whereas, in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty, 
the Community has as its task to promote a 
harmonious development of economic activities and 
continuous and balanced expansion throughout the 
Community; 
Whereas the Heads of State or Government, meeting 
in Luxembourg on 1 and 2 December 1980, expressed 
the hope that efforts by the Member States in the 
field of industrial innovation would be better 
coordinated in order to improve the competitiveness 
of European products by making the best use of the 
C) OJ No C 33, 7. 2. 1983, p. 17. 
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dimension afforded by the common market; whereas 
they requested the competent authorities of the 
Community to examine ways of eliminating the 
fragmentation of markets and improving incentives to 
innovation and the dissemination of knowledge; 
Whereas it is primarily up to undertakings to develop 
trade in technologies and to promote their 
exploitation; 
Whereas, nevertheless, a resolute effort is required to 
promote interaction between technology, industry 
and the market at European level, so as to ensure that 
further economically viable innovations accrue from 
discoveries and inventions through utilization of the 
advantages of scale afforded by the European 
dimension; 
Whereas the Member States have developed 
specialized services in the field of research 
exploitation, technology transfer, information, 
consultancy and financing; 
Whereas these infrastructures are important for faci­
litating innovation, particularly in small and medium-
sized undertakings; 
Whereas the introduction of transnational 
mechanisms for liaison, cooperation, training and 
information would be crucial in optimizing these 
national efforts; 
Whereas the said mechanisms would provide wider 
access to such essential elements of industrial 
innovation as research, technology, capital and the 
market; 
Whereas the Treaty does not provide the powers 
necessary to this end, 
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: 
Article 1 
With a view to facilitating innovation in the 
Community, a package of measures designed to 
promote the transnational development of liaison and 
cooperation infrastructures and to provide incentives 
to trade and the exploitation of technologies is hereby 
drawn up, and is defined in Annex I. 
Article 2 
On the basis of continuous exchange and comparative 
assessment of experiences, Member States and the 
Commission shall endeavour to assure compatibility 
of the measures referred to in Article 1 with national 
and regional measures to promote innovation, in the 
manner provided for in Annex I, Chapter 3. Article 3 
The activities or projects described in Annex I shall be 
undertaken on the responsibility of the Commission 
or shall qualify for partial Community financing 
under the appropriations provided for in the budget 
of the European Communities. 
The following activities or projects may be eligible for 
consideration: 
— activities or projects involving partners established 
in various Member States, or 
— activities or projects involving operations on a 
Community scale or services open to all Member 
States, or 
— programmes for developing innovation infrastruc­
ture, where circumstances so require, so as to 
enable Member States with weaker infrastructure 
to participate fully in transnational projects. 
Article 4 
The Commission shall disseminate in the Community, 
by the most appropriate means, the results of the 
actions undertaken pursuant to this Decision. 
Article 5 
The appropriations required for implementing this 
Decision are estimated at 15 million ECU over a 
period of three years from the date this Decision 
takes effect, and are independent of additional 
manpower requirements. This amount constitutes an 
indication of the financial appropriations which will 
be entered in the general budget of the European 
Communities. 
As regards the activities described in Annex I, the 
Commission shall endeavour to share the cost of the 
operations, to recover a part of its outlay from any 
such revenue as may accrue and to limit its contri­
butions to an initial launching period. 
Article 6 
The Commission shall implement this Decision and 
may have recourse to consultation in so doing. 
The Commission shall submit a report each year to 
the Council, the European Parliament and the 
Economic and Social Committee. 
Article 7 
This Decision shall take effect on the day of its pub­
lication in the Official Journal of the European 
Communities. 
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ANNEX I 
TOWARDS A EUROPEAN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY 
TRANSFER 
SCOPE AND DESCRIPTION OF ACTIONS 
Scope 
The principal objective is to promote the rapid penetration of the Community's economies by new 
technologies as they become available, having regard especially to small and medium-sized 
enterprises. 
The proposed actions will reinforce national structures working towards this end, in particular by 
adding the European dimension to the operations of existing national research exploitation, 
technology transfer, advisory and specialized financial services. The aim is thus to strengthen the 
transnational innovation infrastructure which is essential for an efficient European market in 
innovation. 
Three principal lines of actions are envisaged: 
1. to render existing and developing organizations and services in this field more effective by faci­
litating their operations on, and their access to, the Community market; this transnational 
extension of structures in the Member States will be based upon flexible and dynamic 
mechanisms of liaison and cooperation; 
2. to the degree necessary for the objective, to help meet the corresponding basic requirements in 
the training of people, in knowledge and in technical and communication means; 
3. to contribute to the general advance of methods used in this field by promoting, where 
beneficial, concertation, the exchange of experience and the introduction of new methods in the 
Member States. 
Description of actions 
Initially, the following priority actions are envisaged: 
1. Start-up support for the establishment and initial activities of liaison mechanisms: 
— Standing Technological Conference of European Local Authorities (STCELA), 
— association of finanrial organizations specialized in the financing of innovation, 
— associations of technology and management advisory services, including 'technology awareness 
agencies'. 
2. Actions to promote the supply and dissemination of information at Community level on: 
— supply and demand in respect of national and transnational cooperation of small and medium-
sized enterprises, market analyses and market studies, technological surveys and trend analyses 
and R&D findings, 
— public invitations to tender, 
— norms, standards, rules and regulations applying to exports (and imports). 
3. Support for better utilization of Community-wide protection of industrial and commercial 
property rights. 
4. Consultation on action taken or to be taken at national and Community level, notably with a view 
to evaluating and securing the actual impiemenation of new or not yet Community-wide applied 
methods of promoting innovation, for the benefit in particular of small and medium-sized 
enterprises. 
Subsequent to the availability of initial experiences, the following actions are envisaged: 
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CHAPTER 1 
European cohesion between existing innovation promotion organizations 
1.1. The industry/research interface, in particular: 
(a) start-up support for the establishment of liaison mechanisms; 
b) support for promotional actions for exploitation of new technology or market prospection 
inside and outside the Community. 
1.2. Technology and management advisory services, in particular: 
a) start-up support for associations in order to establish 'human' networks of relations 
between the services concerned, and also for the necessary back-up activities; 
b) support for exchange of personnel of such services as the most efficient way to gain 
experience on other markets as well as to establish networks of mutual assistance; 
c) support for their joint technological market exploration inside and outside the Community. 
1.3. Venture finance operations, in particular: 
a) start-up support for an association of financial organizations specialized in the financing of 
innovation; 
b) support for professional publications of such an association; 
c) support for the build-up of reference networks of experts and consultants. 
1.4. Interface between public users and innovative industries, in particular: 
a) support, as long as necessary, for the basic structure of Community local authority 
cooperation in new technologies; 
b) support for orienting local authority purchasing towards innovation; 
c) support for technology exchange between participants. 
CHAPTER 2 
Strengthening the foundations: people, knowledge, communication 
2.1. Training in management of innovation and technology transfer, in particular: 
(a) encouraging suitable European higher educational institutions and organizations to offer 
special courses in this field; 
(b) support for the development of teaching tools for this purpose on a European basis. 
2.2. Joint support functions for the awareness and assessment of new technologies and potential markets, 
in particular: 
(a) support for joint assessment of technology and markets; 
(b) support for increasing technology awareness, by means such as cooperation between 
'technology awareness agencies' or giving a European scope to technology conferences 
normally organized on a national or regional basis; 
(c) support for the acquisition, analysis and dissemination of information on technologies and 
markets to which access is difficult; 
(d) support for the establishment of an information exchange on available expertise regarding 
technology, markets, finance and public aids for innovation throughout the Community. 
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2.3. Access to patents and licensing markets, in particular: 
(a) support for the intensification of consultation and contacts with the parties concerned, in 
particular as regards the patent cost, the use of patent information and the criteria of 
industrial property protection; 
(b) support for complementing what is already done in some Member States to promote the 
use of industrial property rights by inventors; 
(c) support the creation of an efficient common market for the licensing of technology, by 
promoting the concertation of intermediary services and by providing start-up support for 
transnational forms of cooperation. 
2.4. Opening new channels of communication to accelerate market introduction of new products, in 
particular: 
(a) to promote the timely and Community-wide diffusion of calls for proposals for new 
products, and in particular of public tenders, by developing new efficient media or by 
promoting a more intensive use of existing communication channels; 
(b) establishing an up-to-date awareness system on regulations, norms and standards. 
CHAPTER 3 
Concertation of Member States and Community action 
(a) intensification of the concertation and the exchange of information and experience within 
workings groups; 
(b) comparisons and evaluations of programmes and measures; 
(c) Community support for the advancement of programme methods, and for the advancement of 
the transnational innovation infrastructure in particular. 
Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 80/181/EEC on the approximation 
of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 1 June 1983) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Ecoriomic Community, and in 
particular Article 100 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee, 
Whereas, in a recommendation of 22 May 1981, the World Health Organization 
requested that the millimetre of mercury be retained in addition to the kilopascal as a 
unit for the measurement of the pressure of blood and other body fluids; whereas it is 
advisable for the Commission to adopt this solution; 
Whereas, therefore, Council Directive 80/181/EEC (') should be amended accordingly, 
(') OJ No L 39, 15. 2. 1980, p. 40.