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2.3.1.2. The Committee stresses the need for this 
programme and for cooperation in this field with countries 
to which technology is exported (e.g. Bhopal, India and 
Mexico). The Committee is pleased to note the research 
already being carried out in a number of Member States. 
2.3.1.3. The chemical industry is one of the industrial 
sectors having the highest accident potential. Research in 
this sector, both at EEC level and in the majority of 
Member States, lags far behind that in other hazardous 
sectors of industry, such as the nuclear industry. 
2.3.1.4. The Committee wishes to point out that 
research must take account both of accidents and of 
possible deliberate acts. Practical preventive measures and 
monitoring measures should be devised quickly. 
2.3.1.5. In view of the proposals which have been made 
that part of this programme should be entrusted to the JRC, 
the Committee would draw attention to the importance of 
experiments (into fires, explosions, etc.) for which suitable 
sites are rare. 
2.3.2. Contents 
SECTOR A 
This part of the programme is by far the most readily 
exploitable. The various fields (Al to A8) are clearly specified and the relevant research structures already exist. 
This programme will be of interest to many specialized 
research bodies and also to industry. It should be given 
priority and allocated the bulk of the available appropria­
tions. Methodological harmonization, an urgent require­
ment, depends on this programme. In the absence of such 
harmonization each Member State will develop its own 
models. 
SECTOR B 
The areas covered by Sector B are doubtlessly more 
fundamental than those in Sector A but the presentation of 
the latter sector is much less specific and in its current form 
it cannot be used as a basis for the submission of tenders. 
Futhermore, the three individual areas, Bl, B2 and B3, are 
areas of constant evolution. 
SECTOR C 
The topics relating to emergency action (C7 and C8) are of 
immediate importance. 
Done at Brussels, 26 February 1986 
The Chairman 
of the Economic and Social Committee 
Gerd MUHR 
Opinion on the proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1900/85 
introducing Community export and import declaration forms 
(86/C101/02) 
On 23 January 1986 the Council decided to consult the Economic and Social Committee, under 
Article 198 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, on the abovementioned 
proposal. 
The Section for Industy, Commerce, Crafts and Services, which was responsible for preparing the 
Committee's work on the subject, adopted its opinion on 5 February 1986, in the light of the report 
by Mr Broicher. 
At its 234th Plenary Session (meeting of 26 February 1986) the Economic and Social Committee 
adopted the following opinion unanimously: 
The Committee endorses the proposed amendment. 
The Regulation now being amended provided for export and import declaration forms aligned on 
the forms for intra-Community trade. Appropriate powers must be delegated to the Commission so 
that discrepancies between the codes for intra-Community trade and the codes for trade with non-
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Member States can be avoided and so that further alignments on intra-Community trade can be 
made, where necessary. That is the purpose of the amendment of Article 8 of Regulation EEC 1900/ 
85. 
Done at Brussels, 26 February 1986. 
The Chairman 
of the Economic and Social Committee 
Gerd MUHR 
Opinion on the proposal for a Council Directive amending Council Directive 83/643/EEC on 
the facilitation of physical inspections and administrative formalities in respect on the carriage 
of goods between Member States {l) 
(86/C 101/03) 
On 17 September 1985 the Council decided to consult the Economic and Social Committee, under 
Articles 75 and 100 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, on the 
abovementioned proposal. 
The Section for Transport and Communications, which was responsible for preparing the 
Committee's work on the subject, adopted its opinion on 12 February 1986, in the light of the 
report by Mr Plank. 
At its 234th Plenary Session (meeting of 26 February 1986) the Economic and Social Committee 
adopted the following opinion unanimously: 
1. Introduction 
1.1. The Committee endorses the Commission proposal 
inasmuch as it is intended to supplement the original 
Directive (83/643/EEC) and to contribute to the com­
pletion of the internal market. At the same time, it feels that 
the ultimate purpose of the proposed measures should be to 
abolish checks on the transport of goods, in other words to 
ensure that goods can move freely between Member States. 
The Committee also thinks that the proposed measures 
should be applied urgently. It considers that all restrictions 
on the movement of goods and transport must be 
eliminated as part of the plan to achieve the internal 
market, and that the Commission must draw up a timetable 
for this purpose. 
2. General comments 
2.1. Council Directive 83/643/EEC of 1 December 
1983 (2) includes a package of measures to simplify the 
checks and formalities which hinder goods traffic between 
the Member States. In its opinion on this subject of 24 
February 1983 (3), the ESC approved the proposed 
measures, but regarded them as only a first step towards the 
(!) OJ No C 237, 18. 9. 1986, p. 3. 
(2) OJ No L 359, 22. 12.1983, p. 8. 
(3) OJ No C 90, 5. 4. 1983,p. 22. free movement of goods between the Member States and 
called for them to be supplemented. 
2.2. Thus, the Committee welcomes the Commission's 
proposed measures which aim to ease further the checks 
and formalities in trade between Member States. These 
measures acquire special importance in view of the efforts 
now being made to promote a common transport policy, 
particularly as action has been made necessary by the 
judgement of the European Court of Justice in the 
European Parliament's case against the Council for failure 
to act in this field (Case 13/83). The Committee has already 
called for the simplification of border formalities in its 1982 
own-initiative opinion in support of a common transport 
policy. (4). 
2.3. An additional reason for supporting the proposed 
measures is that they contribute to the completion of the 
internal market — one of the fundamental objectives of the 
Community — which is scheduled to be achieved by 1992 
and which the ESC endorsed in its recent opinion (5)on the 
Commission's White Paper on completion of the internal 
market. More recently, this objective received the backing 
(4) Transport Policy of the European Community in the 1980s, OJ 
No C 326,13. 12. 1982, p. 9. 
(5) OJ No C 344, 13. 12. 1985, p. 16.