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(Preparatory Acts) 
COMMISSION 
Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) adopting a plan to stimulate the international 
cooperation and interchange needed by European research scientists 1988 to 1992 (Science) 
COM(87)443fmal/2 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 6 October 1987) 
(88/C 14/05) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 130Q 
(2) thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
In cooperation with the European Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee, 
Whereas Article 130K of the Treaty provides that 
implementation of the Framework Programme be carried 
out by means of specific programmes developed within 
each activity; whereas the Council by its Decision of . . . 
adopting the multiannual Framework Programme 1987 
to 1991 approved the activity aimed at bringing about a 
researchers' Europe; 
Whereas the Scientific and Technical Research 
Committee (CREST) has been consulted on the 
following measures, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
A plan to stimulate the international cooperation and 
interchange needed by European research scientists, 
hereinafter referred to as the 'stimulation plan', as set 
out in the Annex, is hereby adopted for a five-year 
period commencing on 1 January 1988. 
Article 2 
The stimulation plan consists of a range of activities 
which have as their aim the establishment of a network 
of scientific and technical cooperation and interchange at 
European level, which will gradually be extended. It 
covers all fields of science and technology (the exact and natural sciences). However, in choosing activities to be 
supported, particular attention shall be given to the areas 
set out in the Annex in view of their special interest. 
Article 3 
The funds estimated to be necessary for the execution of 
the stimulation plan amount to 167 million ECU, 
including expenditure on a staff of 18. 
Article 4 
The Commission shall undertake the implementation of 
the stimulation plan by means of bursaries, research 
allocations, grants for high-level courses, contracts 
encouraging the twinning of laboratories and operations 
contracts. It shall be assisted by the Committee for the 
European Development of Science and Technology 
(Codest), set up pursuant to Commission Decision 
82/835/EEC (»), and by consultants. 
The Commission shall negotiate and conclude the 
contracts needed to implement the selected projects. To 
this end it shall draw up contracts showing the rights and 
obligations of each party, particularly the methods of 
disseminating, protecting and exploiting the research 
results.and of making any reimbursement that may be 
necessary of the funding given. 
(') OJ No L 350, 10, 12. 1982, p. 45. Article 1 Article 5 
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Article 6 Article 7 
In implementing the stimulation plan, the Commission is This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
hereby authorized to negotiate agreements for following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
cooperation with third countries, in particular those European Communities. 
involved in European cooperation in the field of 
scientific and technical research (COST), and with inter­
national organizations with a view to associating them This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
wholly or partly with the plan. directly applicable in all Member States. 
ANNEX I 
Plan to stimulate the international scientific cooperation and interchange needed by European research 
scientists (1988 to 1992) 
1. The stimulation plan takes the form of a range of measures to aid the training and mobility of 
researchers, communication among scientists and the development of cooperation in the field of 
research and development in the Community. These are therefore support measures for research 
scientists, teams or research and development organizations to ensure the harmonious scientific and 
technical development of the Community by facilitating: 
— training through research and the recruitment of young research scientists in Community labora­
tories, 
—r transfers of researchers (whether novice or experienced) from one Community country to another, 
— the bringing together, on joint projects, of expertise which is geographically scattered in the 
Community, in order to make it possible to undertake scientific and technical work for which it is 
necessary to bring together complementary resources which exist in various Member States, 
— the strengthening of communication and exchanges of information within the European scientific 
and technical system. 
2. Measures to stimulate interchange and cooperation apply to all fields relevant to the exact and natural 
sciences; the following will be given special attention: 
— mathematics, 
— physics, 
— chemistry, 
— life sciences, 
— earth sciences and ocean sciences, 
— scientific instrumentation, 
— engineering sciences. 
3. In the fields in which support will be granted, multinational projects to benefit from the Community 
support measures will be chosen on the basis of their quality, the extent to which they are multi-
disciplinary in content, their innovative aspects and their value in terms of breaking down barriers 
between different forms of research and development. 
4. The stimulation plan will be implemented by making use of: 
— multisectoral incentive measures: bursaries, research grants, subsidies, laboratory twinnings, 
operations contracts, 
— sectoral incentive measures; bursaries research grants and subsidies financed in the framework of 
each of the community research and development programmes following the agreement of the ap-
proriate Management and Coordination Committee (CGC). 
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5. The choice of stimulation incentive measures and the teams concerned will be made by the Commission 
which, with the help of the Committee for the European Development of Science and Technology 
(Codest), will make use of a peer review system. The Commission will see to it that there is consistency 
between the stimulation activity and programmed Community R&D activities. 
6. The Commission will at the same time undertake a series of consultations, surveys and seminars with the 
cooperation of Community scientific and technical circles in order to analyse and evaluate scientific and 
technical needs and opportunities, with the aim of providing more detail to the content of the stimu­
lation plan. 
The Commission will cooperate closely with the national authorities to ensure consistency between these 
activities and national policies on research stimulation. 
7. In order to evaluate the scientific and/or technical quality of requests for support, as well as to analyse 
scientific and technical opportunities and needs or to assess projects which have been financed or the 
activity itself, the Commission may call upon expertise from outside its own staff. 
ANNEX II 
Programme for stimulation of European cooperation and exchanges in economic science 
The objective is to help the Community's potential in the economic sciences to be fully exploited, and in 
particular attain the highest level of international competitivity. While the Community's human resources in 
economic science are very considerable, there is no doubt that presently the United States occupies a 
dominating position with several centres of excellence of international standing. Moreover, many leading 
economists in Western Europe see in these centres of excellence in North America the principal inter­
national dimension to their professional activity, with intra-European links occupying a lesser role despite 
advantages of closer proximity, etc. 
The economics profession has recently been taking steps to establish first elements of professional organi­
zation at European level, for example: foundation in the last few years of the European Economics 
Association, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Centre for European Policy Studies, and 
establishment between centres of excellence in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom of joint 
programmes for doctorates in economics. However, these initiatives are still at an early stage of 
development and in most cases even quite insecure financially. Some recent initiatives of the European 
Communities will or could also help widen the possibilities for helping the economic sciences, notably the 
Erasmus programme which aims at facilitating the mobility of students and teachers in higher education. 
These recent initiatives show that a programme to strengthen the economic sciences at the European level 
is likely to find an extremely positive response on the part of the profession. What is needed now is a 
critical mass of European-level activity in the economic sciences at the highest level of professional 
standing to persuade the younger and forthcoming generations of European economists to turn their 
interests more towards intra-European cooperation and research efforts; and for some of Europe's best 
young economists, now established in North American centres of excellence, to be persuaded to return. 
Some elements of the programme should have these people in mind. 
The programme would consist of the following actions: 
1. bourses for European doctorates, requiring part of the doctoral studies to be undertaken in a second 
country; 
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2. bourses for post-doctoral research fellowships, to be offered to Community nationals from a different 
country to that of the institution, or to Community nationals returning from non-European institutions; 
3. grants for research projects or networks of European interest; 
4. financial support for information networks, including data-banks and documentation. 
The criteria that requests for bourses and research grants should meet would be the following: 
(a) scientific excellence; 
(b) the substance of the research should be of European-level interest; 
(c) there should be a multi-national European aspect to the organization of the project (multi-national 
participation, or activity outside country of nationality). 
The economic sciences, like the natural sceinces, can profit greatly from the establishment of research 
networks. Research institutions specializing in the building of multiple networks have demonstrated their 
value in the economic as well as natural sciences,, exploiting economies of scale in communication between 
scientists. Such organizations should be eligible for support, but by no means exclusively. 
The strength of some of the northern European countries outside the Community is very considerable in 
the economic sciences. The programme should be open to requests by such countries to participate, on the 
basis of financing schemes for which there are already precedents (through association agreements with the 
individual countries) in the Community's framework programmes for research. 
The programme would cost about six million ECU in total for the four years 1989 to 1992, starting at a 
level of about one million ECU, rising to two million ECU. Preliminary activities in 1988 would be 
financed under line 7302 of the budget. Definition of the programme and selection of projects would 
benefit from the advice of a consultative committee of eminent economists. 
Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 823/87 laying down 
special provisions relating to quality wines produced in specified regions 
COM(87) 642 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 17 December 1987) 
(88/C 14/06) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 
•thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee, 
Whereas experience gained from applying Council Regu­
lation (EEC) No 823/87 (') has shown the need to emphasize the horizontal nature of the said Regulation, 
which applies to all categories of quality wine produced 
in specified regions of the Community, hereinafter called 
'quality wines psr', but also, for the sake of a more 
methodical presentation of Community wine legislation, 
to remove from the Regulation the detailed technical 
provisions which would be more appropriately included 
in the special regulations dealing with these matters 
which already exist or which have yet to be adopted; 
whereas in this connection it should be stressed that the 
provisions of that Regulation apply to all quality wines 
psr, including sparkling, semi-sparkling and liqueur 
wines; whereas the detailed provisions, which apply only 
to quality sparkling wines produced in specified regions, 
should be transferred to Council Regulation (EEC) No 
358/79 of 5 February 1979 on sparkling wines produced 
in the Community as defined in point 15 of Annex I to 
Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 (2), as last amended by 
Regulation (EEC) No /. .; 
(') OJ No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 59. (-') OJ No I. 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 13C.