CELEX: 21985A0731(03)
Language: en
Date: 1985-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a concerted action project on the effects of processing and distribution on the quality and nutritive value of food (COST Project 91 bis)

31 . 7 . 85                         Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 199/ 51
                              COMMUNITY-COST CONCERTATION AGREEMENT
                on a concerted action project on the effects of processing and distribution on the
                             quality and nutritive value of food (COST Project 91 bis)
  THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,                               member States. Research topics covered by this Agree­
                                                                 ment are listed in Annex A.
  hereinafter referred to as 'the Community',
                                                                 The States shall remain entirely responsible for the
 THE SIGNATORY STATES TO THIS AGREEMENT,                         research carried out by their national institutions or
                                                                 bodies .
  hereinafter referred to as 'the participating non­
  member States',                                                                         Article 2
 Whereas a Community-COST Concertation Agree­                    Concertation between the Contracting Parties shall be
 ment on a concerted action project on the effects of            effected through a Community-COST Concertation
 thermal processing and distribution on the quality and          Committee, hereinafter referred to as 'the Committee '.
 nutritive value of foods (COST Project 91 ) was
 concluded between the Community and some non­                  The terms of reference and the composition of this
 member States involved in European Cooperation in               Committee are defined in Annex B.
 the field of Scientific and Technical research (COST)
 on 22 January 1981 and expired on 26 November                  The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure . Its
 1982 ;                                                         secretariat shall be provided by the Commission of the
                                                                 European Communities, hereinafter referred to as 'the
 Whereas the abovementioned concerted action project            Commission '.
 has produced very encouraging results ;
                                                                                          Article 3
 Whereas by its Decision of 24 May 1984 the Council
 of the European Communities adopted a Community                In order to ensure optimum efficiency in the execu­
 concerted action project on the effects of processing          tion of this concerted action project, a project leader
 and distribution on the quality and nutritive value of         shall be appointed by the Commission in agreement
 food ;                                                         with the delegates of the participating non-member
                                                                States on the Committee .
Whereas the Member States of the Community and
the participating non-member States, hereinafter
referred to as 'the States', intend, subject to the rules                                Article 4
and procedures applicable to their national
programmes, to carry out the research described in             The maximum financial contribution by the Contrac­
Annex A ; whereas they are willing to have such                 ting Parties to the coordination costs for the period
research integrated into a process of concertation              referred to in the first paragraph of Article 1 shall be :
which they consider will be of mutual benefit ;                — 780 000 ECU from the Community,
                                                               — 78 000 ECU from each participating non-member
Whereas the implementation of the research covered                  State .
by the concerted action project will require a financial
contribution of approximately 20 million ECU from              The ECU is that defined by the Financial Regulation
the States,                                                    in force applicable to the general budget of the Euro­
                                                               pean Communities and by the financial arrangements
                                                               adopted pursuant thereto.
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                               The rules governing the financing of the Agreement
                                                               are set out in Annex C.
                          Article 1
The Community and the participating non-member                                           Article 5
States, hereinafter referred to as 'the Contracting
parties', shall participate for a period extending until 7     1 . Through the Committee, the States shall
June 1988 in a concerted action project on the effects         exchange regularly all useful information resulting
of processing and distribution on the quality and              from the execution of the research covered by the
nutritive value of food .                                      concerted action project. They shall also endeavour to
                                                               provide information on similar research planned or
This project shall consist in concertation between the         carried out by other bodies. Any information shall be
Community concerted action programme and the                   treated as confidential if the State which provides it so
corresponding programmes of the participating non­             requests .
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2. After having consulted the Committee, the                  month following that in which the Community and at
Commission shall prepare annual progress reports on           least one of the participating non-member States
the basis of the information supplied and shall forward       transmitted these notifications.
them to the States .
                                                              For those Contracting Parties which transmit the noti­
3 . At the end of the concertation period, the                fication after the entry into force of this Agreement, it
Commission shall, after having consulted the                  shall come into force on the first day of the second
Committee, forward to the States, a general report on         month following the month in which the notification
                                                              was transmitted .
the execution and results of the project. This report
shall be published by the Commission not later than           Contracting Parties which have not transmitted this
six months after it has been forwarded, unless a State        notification when this Agreement comes into force
objects . In that case the report shall be treated as         shall be able to take part in the work of the
confidential and shall be forwarded, on the request           Committee without voting rights until 31 December
and with the agreement of the Committee, solely to            1985 .
the institutions and undertakings whose research or
production activities justify access to knowledge resul­      4. The Secretary-General of the Council of the
ting from the performance of the research covered by          European Communities shall inform each of the
the concerted action project.                                 Contracting Parties of the notifications provided for in
                                                              paragraph 2 and of the date of entry into force of this
                                                              Agreement.
                        Article 6
                                                                                      Article 7
1 . This Agreement shall be open for signature by
the Community and by the non-member States which              This Agreement shall apply, on the one hand, to the
took part in the Ministerial conference held in Brus­         territories in which the Treaty establishing the Euro­
sels on 22 and 23 November 1971 .                             pean Economic Community is applied and under the
                                                              conditions laid down in that Treaty and, on the other
2. As a condition precedent to its participation in           hand, to the territories of the participating non­
the concerted action project defined in Article 1 , each      member States.
of the Contracting Parties shall, after signing this
Agreement, have notified the Secretary-General of the                                 Article 8
Council of the European Communities not later than
31 December 1985 of the completion of the proce­              This Agreement, drawn up in a single original in the
dures necessary under its internal provisions for the         Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek and
implementation of this Agreement.                             Italian languages, each text being equally authentic,
                                                              shall be deposited in the archives of the General
3. For the Contracting Parties which transmit the             Secretariat of the Council of the European Communi­
notification provided for in paragraph 2, this Agree­         ties which shall transmit a certified copy to each of the
ment shall come into force on the first day of the            Contracting Parties.
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                                                             ANNEX A
                                         Research topics covered by the agreement
             1 . HTST process (high-temperature, short-time processing) and other new thermal processing
                 systems.
            2. Qualitative and nutritive properties of foods obtained by biotechnology.
            3. Chilling and refrigerated storage.
                                                            ANNEX B
            TERMS OF REFERENCE AND COMPOSITION OF THE COMMUNITY-COST
            CONCERTATION COMMITTEE ON THE EFFECTS OF PROCESSING AND DISTRI­
                       BUTION ON THE QUALITY AND NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FOODS
            1.     The Committee shall :
            1.1 . contribute to the optimum execution of the project by giving its opinion on all aspects of its
                  progress ;
            1 .2. evaluate the results of the project and draw conclusions regarding their application ;
            1.3 . be reponsible for the exchange of information provided for in Article 5 ( 1 ) of the Agreement ;
            1 .4. suggest guidelines to the project leader ;
            1 .5. have the right to set up, in respect of each of the research topics defined in Annex A, a subcom­
                  mittee to ensure that the programme is properly implemented.
            2.     The Committee's reports and opinions shall be communicated to the States.
            3.     The Committee shall be composed of one delegate from the Commission, as coordinator of the
                  Community concerted action project, one delegate from each participating non-member State,
                  one delegate from each Member State representing its national programme and the project
                  leader. Each delegate may be accompanied by experts.
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                                                           ANNEX C
                                                   FINANCING RULES
                                                            Article 1
            These provisions lay down the financial rules referred to in Article 4 of the Community-COST
            Concertation Agreement on a concerted action project on the effects of processing and distribution
            on the quality and nutritive value of food (COST Project 91 bis).
                                                            A rticle 2
            At the beginning of each financial year, the Commission shall send to each of the participating non­
            member States a call for funds corresponding to its share of the annual coordination costs under the
            Agreement, calculated in proportion to the maximum amounts laid down in Article 4 of the Agree­
            ment .
            This contribution shall be expressed both in ECU and the currency of the participating non-member
            State concerned, the value of the ECU being defined in the Financial Regulation applicable to the
            general budget of the European Communities and determined on the date of the call for funds.
            The total contributions shall cover the travel and subsistence costs of the delegates to the Committee,
            in addition to the coordination costs proper which include meetings, contracts to be concluded with
            persons or bodies in the participating States with a view to ensuring coordination and exchange of
            research workers between laboratories .
            Each participating non-member State shall pay its annual contribution to the coordination costs
            under the Agreement at the beginning of each year, and by 31 March at the latest. Any delay in the
            payment of the annual contribution shall give rise to the payment of interest by the participating
            non-member State concerned at a rate equal to the highest discount rate ruling in the States on the
            due date. The rate shall be increased by 0,25 of a percentage point of each month of delay. The
            increased rate shall be applied to the entire period of delay. However, such interest shall be
            chargeable only if payment is effected more than three months after the issue of a call for funds by
            the Commission .
                                                            Article 3
            The funds paid by participating non-member States shall be credited to the concerted action project
            as budget receipts allocated to a heading in the statement of the revenue of the Budget of the Euro­
            pean Communities (Commission section).
                                                            Article 4
            The provisional timetable for the coordination costs referred to in Article 4 of the Agreement is
            appended hereto .
                                                            Article 5
            The Financial Regulation in force applicable to the General Budget of the European Communities
            shall apply to the management of the appropriations.
                                                            Article 6
            At the end of each financial year, a statement of appropriations for the concerted action project shall
            be prepared and transmitted to the participating non-member States for information .
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ONCERTED ACTION PROJECT EFFECTS OF PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION ON THE QUALITY AND                                                                                                                                85
                                     NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FOOD (COST Project 91 bis)'
                                                                                                                                                                                                      (ECU)
                                                   1985                                1986                            1987                        1988                              Total
                             PA            CA                   PA             CA               PA            CA                PA         CA                  PA             CA                 PA
                                          17 000               17 000         36 650           36 650       39 100             39 100     20 000              20 000      112 750            112 750
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Official
                            40 000        71 000              71 000          75 000           75 000       77 000             77 000     50 000              50 000      313 000            313 000
                            20 000    102 000                 37 000          90 000          115 000       95 000            115 000     22 250              67 250      354 250            354 250
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Journal
                            60 000    190 000                 125 000     201 650             226 650      211 100            231 100     92 250          1 37 250        780 000            780 000
                                                                                                                                                                                                                of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                              European
                                          190 000              125 000    .   201 650                        211 100           231 100     92 250              1 37 250       780 000            780 000
                            60 000    I                   I
                                                                                               226 650 j
                                                                                                                                                          I               I                  I
                           n60 000    • nl90 000              nl 25 000   > n201 650          n226 650      n21 1 100         n231 100    n92 250         > nl37 250      , n780 000         • n780 000        Communities
                              10            10                   10             10               10             10               10          10                  10             10                 10
                           n60 000   nl90 000         nl25 000            n201 650        n226 650         n21 1 100      n23l 100       n92 250      nl37 250            n780 000       n780 000
                             10            10                   10             10               10            10                10         10                  10             10                 10
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