CELEX: 31973D0127
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 14 May 1973 adopting a research programme for the European Economic Community in the field of teledetection of earth resources

9 . 6 . 73                         Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 153 / 13
                                                COUNCIL DECISION
                                                   of 14 May 1973
               adopting a research programme for the European Economic Community in the field of
                                           teledetection of earth resources
                                                     (73/ 127/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                      resources, as set out in the Annex to this Decision,
                                                                is hereby adopted for a period of four years be­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­            ginning on 1 January 1973 . This Annex, forms an
pean Economic Community and in particular Ar­                  integral pant of this Decision .
ticles 41 and 235 thereof;
                                                                                        Article 2
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Having ' regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­         The upper (limit for expenditure commitments and for
ment;                                                          staff ( necessary for the implementation of this pro­
Having regard to the Council Resolution of 17
                                                               gramme shall be 1.05 million units of account and
December 1970 on the procedure for adopting                    10 staff, the unit of account being defined in the
 research and training programmes ;                            Financial Regulation on the establishment and im­
                                                               plementation of the budget of the European Com­
 Whereas Article 2 of the Treaty establishing the Euro­         munities and the responsibility of authorizing and
 pean Economic Community assigns to the Com­                   accounting officers.
 munity, inter alia the task of promoting throughout
 the Community a harmonious development of                                              Article 3
 economic activities, a continous and balanced ex­
 pansion and an accelerated raising of the standard
 of living ; whereas the objectives of the Community's         The Commission shall ensure that this programme is
activities for these purposes are set out in Article 3          carried out and, to this end, shall request the assist­
of the same Treaty ;                                            ance of the Joint Research Centre. It shall submit an
                                                                annual report to the Council on the subject.
Whereas the purpose of the projects which are the
subject of this Decision is , in the initial phase, to                                  Article 4
offer to the Community a means of drawing up
statistics and forecasts which may be used in various          The programme defined in the Annex shall be sub­
fields including agriculture ;                                 ject to review at the - beginning of the second year,
                                                               in accordance with the appropriate procedures , and
Whereas the problem of evaluating and using natural            in the 'light of the decisions of the Paris Summit
resources constitutes an important element of these            Conference .
objectives ;
Whereas the research projects which are the subject                                     Article S
 of this Decision seem necessary in order to achieve
certain Community objectives in the context of the             The information resulting from the implementation
functioning of the common market;                              of the parts of the programme defined in the Annex
                                                                shall be disseminated in accordance with the con­
Whereas the Treaty establishing the European Econ­              ditions and within the limits which are to be fixed
omic Community made no provision for the powers                at a later date.
required for these purposes ;
 HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :                                       Done at Brussels, 14 May 1973 .
                         Article 1                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                                     The President
A research programme for the European Economic
Community in the field of teledetection of earth                                                  R. VAN ELSLANDE
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                                                             ANNEX
                                                       DIRECT ACTION
                                                 NON-NUCLEAR PROJECTS
                                       TELEDETECTION OF EARTH RESOURCES
              Joint programme
              A maximum amount of 1.05 million units of account shall be allocated to this objective and the
              upper limit for staff shall be fixed at 10 staff (including 4 programme staff).
              The objective shall comprise direct support activity to the Directorates-General of the Com­
              mission for the purpose of establishing a technique for global analysis of the conditions of the
              soil and its constituents by aerial and spatial observation.
              These activities will be carried out by the Ispra Establishment in conjunction with the
              Directorates-General concerned.