RE-EXAMINED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION ADOPTING A SPECIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN THE FIELD OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH ( 1991-1994 )
Date: 1991-07-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: health policy, medicine, research and development, research programme

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 

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COM(91)306  final  - SYN 267 

Brussels,-24  July  1991 

fle-examined proposal  for a 

COUNCIL DECISION 

adopting a specific research and technological  development programme 

in the field of biomedicine and health 

(1991-1994) 

(presented  by the Commission pursuant  to Article  149.2(d) 
of the EEC treaty) 

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EXPLANATORY  MEMORANDUM 

1. 

On  10  July  1991  the  European  Parliament  in  its  second  reading  of 
the  "Biomedicine  and  Health"  proposal  (initial  proposal  COM(90) 
162  final  -  SYN  267 of  28 May  1990, modified  proposal  COM(90) 676 
final  - SYN  267 of  14 December  1990) has adopted  one  amendment  to 
the Common  Position of  the Council. The Commission, when  defending 
its position,  accepted  this amendment, which  restores  to AIDS 50% 
of  the  budget  allocated  to  Area  2  "Major  health  problems  and 
diseases of  great  socio-economic  impact", and which  raises  to  6.67 
MECU  the  resources  of Area  4,  "Research  on Biomedical  ethics". 

2. 

Consequently, pursuant  to Article  149.2.(d) of  the EEC Treaty,  the 
Commission  establishes  its re-examined  proposal  by  integrating  the 
accepted  amendment  into  the Common  Position  of  the Council  (to be 
found  in the  Annex). 

ANNE! 

Re-examined  proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  DECISION 

adopting a specific  research and  technological  development  programme 
in the field of biomediclne and health 

(1991-1994) 

The  re-examined  proposal  of  the Commission  consists of  the  text  of  the 
Common  Position  adopted  by  the Council  on  24 April  1991  (doc. 5502/91) 
modified  as follows : 

Indicative breakdown of  the amount  deemed necessary  in mi I H on  ECU -

ANNEX  II 

Area  1 

Development  of coordinated  research on 
prevention, care and health systems  : 

Area  2 

Major  health problems and diseases of great 
socio-economic  impact, with AIDS  receiving 
50% of  the sum  for  this Area  : 

Area  3 

Human Genome Analysis  : 

27 

71 

27 

Area 4 

Research on Biomedical  ethics  : 

6.67 

TOTAL1 -2 

131.67 

The  breakdown  between  different  headings  does  not  exclude  the 
possibility  that  projects could cover  several  headings. 
1 

Including  expenditure  on  staff  which  comes  to  5  MECU  and 
administrative  expenditure  totalling  8 MECU.  Five  per  cent  of  the 
total  will  be  allocated  to  training  research  workers  and 
specialists. 

2  A sum deemed  necessary of  ECU 1.33 million, not  included  in the ECU 
131.67  million,  will  be  earmarked  as  the  contribution  from  the 
specific  programme  in the  field  of  "Biomediclne  and  Health"  to the 
centralised  scheme  for  the  dissemination  and  exploitation  of 
results. 

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