CELEX: 51991PC0184
Language: en
Date: 1991-05-29
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) ON THE APPLICATION OF THE PROTOCOLS ON FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION CONCLUDED BY THE COMMUNITY WITH NON-MEMBER MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES

15. 6. 91                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                No C 157/7
 HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:                                       pation of the full implementation of this number as the
                                                                  international telephone access code.
                           Article 1
                                                                  Member States shall ensure that from this date onwards,
 Member States shall ensure that the number 00 is                 subscribers attempting to dial 00 are provided with a
 introduced in public telephone networks as the standard          free-of-charge recorded announcement in an appropriate
 international telephone access code.                             number of Community languages, advising of the
                                                                  specific international telephone access code still in use.
                            Article 2
 The standard international telephone access code shall be                                  Article 5
 introduced by 31 December 1992 at the latest, except as
                                                                  1.    Special dialling arrangements for making calls
 provided for in Article 3.
                                                                  between adjacent locations across borders between
                                                                  Member States may be established or continued.
                           Article 3
 Where particular technical, financial, or organizational         In these cases Member States shall ensure that where the
 difficulties in a Member State make the introduction of          standard international telephone access code is dialled,
 the standard international telephone access code by the          the call is nevertheless correctly routed to its destination
 date laid down in Article 2 impossible, that Member              and that the same tariffs as under these arrangements are
 State shall submit to the Commission the relevant infor-         applied.
 mation.
                                                                  2.    Where particular technical, financial, or organiz-
 The Member State concerned shall communicate to the              ational difficulties make it initially impossible to comply
 Commission, with adequate explanations and justifi-              with paragraph 1, Member States shall inform the
 cation, a new date for the introduction of the standard          Commission and ensure that the necessary changes are
 international telephone access code which, however,              made as quickly as possible.
 shall not be later than 31 December 1998.
                                                                  3.    The telephone subscribers in the locations
                           Article 4                              concerned shall be fully informed of the arrangements.
 Where Member States invoke Article 3, Member States
                                                                                            Article 6
 shall nevertheless ensure that the 00 number range is
 freed from other uses by 31 December 1995, in antici-           This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on the application of the protocols on financial and
               technical cooperation concluded by the Community with non-member Mediterranean countries
                                                       (91/C 157/08)
                                                     COM(91) 184 final
                                       (Submitted by the Commission on 3 June 1991)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 235                Having regard        to  the   opinion    of  the   European
thereof,                                                         Parliament,
Having regard to the conclusion of protocols on
financial and technical cooperation between the                  Whereas the protocols provide        for operations financed
European Economic Community and non-member                       from the Community budget           in the form of grants,
Mediterranean countries hereinafter referred to as               special loans, contributions to     the constitution of risk
'protocols',                                                     capital and loans from the          own resources of the
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European Investment Bank, hereinafter referred to as             Aid given for structural adjustment must be linked
'the Bank';                                                      directly to the adjustment operations and measures of
                                                                 the recipient country.
Whereas detailed rules for the administration of financial
cooperation should be laid down;                                 The procedures for the award of contracts must be suffi-
                                                                 ciently flexible for adaptation to the recipient country's
                                                                  normal administrative and commercial practices. For
Whereas on 5 June 1984 and on 16 May 1989 the                     imports in the public and semi-public sectors, however,
Council adopted resolutions on the coordination of               the usual procedures for the award of public contracts
cooperation      policies and operations within the               shall be followed.
Community;
                                                                  2.    The Commission shall inform the Member States,
Whereas the Treaty has not provided the powers                   whenever necessary and at least once a year, of the
necessary for this purpose other than those of Article            implementation of structural adjustment operations and
235,                                                              of any problem arising in connection with the continuing
                                                                  eligibility of these operations.
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                                            Article 4
                                                                  1.    Financing decisions on projects or operations
                           Article 1
                                                                  financed from the Community budget for a cost of more
 In implementing aid to the recipient countries, the              than ECU 2 million shall be adopted following the
 Commission shall ensure the application of the policy            procedure laid down in Article 6 (2).
 guidelines for financial and technical cooperation agreed
 with these countries in the context of the new Mediter-
 ranean policy and of the development cooperation policy          2.    Where the financing decisions referred to in
 laid down by the Council.                                        paragraph 1 concern interest-rate subsidies for Bank
                                                                  loans, they shall be adopted on the basis of the loan
                                                                  proposals transmitted by the Bank to the Commission.
                           Article 2
 1.    In order to ensure consistency of cooperation and
 greater complementarity between the Member States                                          Article 5
 operations, the Commission and the Bank shall exchange
                                                                  Projects or operations financed from the Community
 any relevant information on financing that they envisage         budget shall be administered by the Commission without
 giving.                                                          prejudice to the Bank's administration of interest-rate
                                                                  subsidies accorded by the Community for Bank loans
                                                                  from its own resources and risk capital operations, in
 Possibilities for cofinancing shall be sought when infor-        accordance with the mandate given the Commission
 mation is exchanged.                                             under Article 105 (3) of the Financial Regulation of 21
                                                                  December 1977 applicable to the general budget of the
                                                                  European Communities.
 2.    The Member States, the Commission and the Bank
 shall also communicate, within the framework of the
 committee referred to in Article 6, information in their
 possession on other bilateral and multilateral aid for the                                 Article 6
 recipient countries.
                                                                   1.   The Commission shall be assisted by a Committee
                                                                   made up of representatives of the Member States and
                                                                   chaired by a representative of the Commission.
                           Article 3
  1.   Operations in support of a structural adjustment
 programme shall be implemented on the basis of the               A representative of the Bank shall take part in the
 following principles.                                            proceedings, without the right to vote.
 In analysing the situation of the recipient countries on          2.   The Commission representative shall submit to the
 the basis of the criteria referred to in the protocols on         Committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The
 financial and technical cooperation, the Commission               Committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft within a
 shall appraise the scope and effectiveness of the reforms         time limit decided by the chairman according to the
 undertaken in areas covered by these criteria.                    urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be
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 delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148 (2) of        3.    In carrying out the controls provided for in para-
 the Treaty in the case of decisions which the Council is         graphs 1 and 2 the Commission shall examine jointly
 required to adopt on a proposal from the Commission.             with the Bank the extent to which the objectives chosen
The votes of the Member States' representatives on the            in accordance with the agreements and protocols
 Committee shall be weighted as provided for in that              concluded with the recipient countries have been
Article. The chairman shall not vote.                             achieved.
 Measures adopted by the Commission shall be                      4.   The Commission shall send an annual report on the
 immediately applicable. If, however, such measures do            implementation of aid, notably as regards compliance
not conform to the opinion of the Committee, the                 with the terms of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, to the Council
Commission shall notify the Council of the measures              and Parliament.
forthwith. In that event the Commission shall defer
application of the measures it has adopted for three
months from the date of this notification.                                                 Article 8
                                                                 The Commission and the Bank, each acting in respect of
The Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take a          the projects for which they are responsible, shall evaluate
different decision within the time limit referred to in the      the main projects with the aim of finding out whether
preceding paragraph.                                             the objectives set when the projects were identified have
                                                                 been achieved and of establishing guidelines designed to
                                                                 improve the efficiency of future aid. These evaluation
                          Article 7                              reports shall be made available to the Member States.
 1.   Without prejudice to the Bank's mandate provided
for in Article 5, the Commission shall be responsible for                                  Article 9
the implementation of aid and for the terms under which
the projects and operations financed with this aid are           Regulation (EEC) No 3973/86 is hereby repealed.
implemented by the recipient countries or by any other
                                                                                          Article 10
recipients for which provision is made in the relevant
protocol.                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                 European Communities.
2.    In close liaison with the relevant authorities of the
recipient country or countries, it shall also be responsible
for the terms under which the projects financed with             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
Community aid are used by the recipients.                        directly applicable in all Member States.