CELEX: 51983PC0266(03)
Language: en
Date: 1983-05-18
Title: 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

No C 155/6                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            14.6.83
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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                                     vehicles; whereas it is therefore necessary to amend
COMMUNITIES                                                     the said Regulation,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 75 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                                         Article 1
Having regard to the opinion of the European                    Article 9, first indent, of Regulation No 11 is hereby
Parliament,                                                     replaced by the following:
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                     '— the goods must be carried by vehicles owned
Social Committee.                                                        or obtained on deferred terms or hired by the
                                                                         undertaking, provided that in the latter case
Whereas, Council Directive . . . makes provision for                     they meet the conditions of Article 2 of
carriers for hire or reward and carriers for own                         Directive . . . '
account to use hired vehicles;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas the definition of own-account carriage of
goods by road contained in Article 9 of Regulation              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
N o 11 (') does not provide for the use of hired                1984.
                                                                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
0) OJ No 52, 16. 8. I960, p. 1121/60.                           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                                    Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    Social Committee (3),
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   Whereas, in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty,
 European Economic Community, and in particular                  the Community has as its task to promote a
 Article 235 thereof,                                            harmonious development of economic activities and
                                                                 continuous and balanced expansion throughout the
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission               Community;
 o,
                                                                 Whereas the Heads of State or Government, meeting
 Having regard to the opinion of the European                    in Luxembourg on 1 and 2 December 1980, expressed
 Parliament,                                                     the hope that efforts by the Member States in the
                                                                 field of industrial innovation would be better
                                                                 coordinated in order to improve the competitiveness
 (*) OJ No C 187, 22. 7. 1982, p. 4.                             of European products by making the best use of the
 (l) The amendments with respect to the original proposal
     (OJ No C 187, 22. 7. 1982, p. 4) are printed in bold
     type.                                                       C) OJ No C 33, 7. 2. 1983, p. 17.
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  dimension afforded by the common market; whereas                                        Article 3
  they requested the competent authorities of the
 Community to examine ways of eliminating the                   The activities or projects described in Annex I shall be
 fragmentation of markets and improving incentives to           undertaken on the responsibility of the Commission
 innovation and the dissemination of knowledge;                 or shall qualify for partial Community financing
                                                                under the appropriations provided for in the budget
 Whereas it is primarily up to undertakings to develop          of the European Communities.
 trade in technologies and to promote their                     The following activities or projects may be eligible for
 exploitation;                                                  consideration:
 Whereas, nevertheless, a resolute effort is required to        — activities or projects involving partners established
 promote interaction between technology, industry                   in various Member States, or
 and the market at European level, so as to ensure that         — activities or projects involving operations on a
 further economically viable innovations accrue from                Community scale or services open to all Member
 discoveries and inventions through utilization of the              States, or
 advantages of scale afforded by the European
dimension;                                                     — programmes for developing innovation infrastruc-
                                                                    ture, where circumstances so require, so as to
 Whereas the Member States have developed                           enable Member States with weaker infrastructure
 specialized services in the field of research                      to participate fully in transnational projects.
 exploitation,     technology     transfer,    information,
 consultancy and financing;
                                                                                          Article 4
Whereas these infrastructures are important for faci-
 litating innovation, particularly in small and medium-        The Commission shall disseminate in the Community,
sized undertakings;                                            by the most appropriate means, the results of the
                                                               actions undertaken pursuant to this Decision.
Whereas        the    introduction      of    transnational
mechanisms for liaison, cooperation, training and
information would be crucial in optimizing these
                                                                                         Article 5
national efforts;
                                                               The appropriations required for implementing this
Whereas the said mechanisms would provide wider
                                                               Decision are estimated at 15 million ECU over a
access to such essential elements of industrial
                                                               period of three years from the date this Decision
innovation as research, technology, capital and the
                                                               takes effect, and are independent of additional
market;
                                                               manpower requirements. This amount constitutes an
Whereas the Treaty does not provide the powers                 indication of the financial appropriations which will
necessary to this end,                                         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
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                                               operations, to recover a part of its outlay from any
                                                               such revenue as may accrue and to limit its contri-
                          Article 1                            butions to an initial launching period.
With a view to facilitating innovation in the
Community, a package of measures designed to
                                                                                         Article 6
promote the transnational development of liaison and
cooperation infrastructures and to provide incentives          The Commission shall implement this Decision and
to trade and the exploitation of technologies is hereby        may have recourse to consultation in so doing.
drawn up, and is defined in Annex I.
                                                               The Commission shall submit a report each year to
                                                               the Council, the European Parliament and the
                          Article 2                            Economic and Social Committee.
On the basis of continuous exchange and comparative
assessment of experiences, Member States and the                                         Article 7
Commission shall endeavour to assure compatibility
of the measures referred to in Article 1 with national         This Decision shall take effect on the day of its pub-
and regional measures to promote innovation, in the            lication in the Official Journal of the European
manner provided for in Annex I, Chapter 3.                     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.