CELEX: 51982DC0580
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Date: 1982-08-31
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 30/82 (Compulsory expenditure to compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure) GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1982 SECTION III - COMMISSION - PARTS A AND B

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 ---pagebreak---          COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                   COM(82)580 final
                                                                   Brusse Is , 31st August 1982
3EIMERAL BUDGET POR 1982
SECTION III - COMMISSION - Ρ AR-TS A AND Β
                                  TRANSFER OP APPROPRIATIONS No 30/82
                             ( Compulsory expenditure to compulsory and
                                       non-compulsory expenditure )
                                                                                                           ECU
                                                                                Appropriations Appropriations
                                                                               for cozuaitments  for payments
                                                                                 454 . 000 . 000
 ffiCW CHAPTER. E/lOO - PROVISIONAL APPROPRIATIONS                                                454.000.000
 of which :   Itea 1000    - Refunds                                              90.000.000       90.000.000
              Item 1511    - Produo^éTan aid for tomato-based
                             products                    ' y.                     20.000.000       20.000.000
               Article 171 - Presiuss 92. tobacco        V>\                      30.000.000       30.000.000
               Item 2000   - Refums ort milk and · aditai
                             products                       . ,T I               110.000.000      110.000.000
                                           t,             , ■■■■ /
               Itea 2020   - Aid for skiæsed-æilk powder for
                             use as feed ifor calvesïV                            35.000.000       35.000.000
                                                                                  35.000.000       35.000.000
               Item 2033   - Other storage costs ^
                                                                                 134.000.000      134.000.000
                Itea 2040  – Cczisuæptiozi aioL for butter
  PROM CHAPTER B/?Q - MILK AND MILK PR0HJCTS
  ÍT.+-; a 9(Yi            – Refunds on ndlk arJ. milk
                                                                                  44.828.000       44.828.000
  Item 2000                - Refunds
                                                                                 498.S28.000      498.828.000
                              rrv-fMi, ¿ ppPOPRT VTIONS TRANSFERRED
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                                                                                           ECU
                                                                Appropriations Appropriations
                                                                'or commitments for payments
«ivi CHAPTER A/20 - INVESTMENTS IH IMMOVABLE PROPERTY , RENTAL
                    OP BUILDINGS AND ASSOCIATED COSTS
Article 206       - Accruisition of immovable property             18.000.000     18.000.000
Article 207       – Construction of buildings                        1.800.000     1.800.000
TO CHAPTER A /26 - EXPENDITURE ON STUDIES , SURVEYS AND
                    CONSULTATIONS
Article 269       - Monitoring application of certain steel
                    industry measures                                5 .OOO.OOO    5.000.000
TO CHAPTER B/52   - MEASURES UNDER THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM
                    TO REDUCE ECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN THE
                    COMMUNITY
 Article 52O      – Interest rate subsidies on Community loans
                    to the less prosperous Member States
                    participating in the European Monetary
                    System                                           9.809.7OO     9.8O9.7OO
 TO CHAPTER ΒA4 - OTHER REGIONAL POLICY MEASURES
 Article 541      - Measures to promote integrated operations
 Item 5411        – Community measures in the framework of
                    integrated operations                           12.000.000    12.000.000
 TO CHAPTER B /60 - EUROPEAN SOCIAL PUND - EXPENDITURE UNDER
                    ARTICLE 4 OP THE COUNCIL DECISION OP
                    1 FEBRUARY 1971
 Article 6OI      - Measures for youiy? people
 Item 6OIO        - Aid in the fields of vocational training
                    and geographical nobility                     110.000.000     64.5OO .OOO
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                                                                                                                                                                            ECU
                                                                                                                                  Appropriations          Appropriations
                                                                                                                                  for commitments          for payments
TO CHAPTER B /61 - E3JR0PEAÍT SOCIAL FUND - EXPENDITURE UJŒEB
                      ASTI CLE 5 OP THE COMCIL JECISION OF
                       1 FEBRUARY 1971
Articiô 610       - Msasiires to improve the sKployaeai
                      situation in certain regions , economic
                      agötors adapting to technical progress
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Item 6100        ~ Aid ta i arprov« the employment situation
                      in certain regions                                                                                            IO5.OOO.OOO                      -
TO CHAPTER E/73  - RESEASCH ASID INVESTMENT
Article 730      - Direct action - Joint Research Centre
                      1 JRCT– joint™programme
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                                                                                                                                                            26 . 541 .000
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Itea 730?        - Study and protection of the
                      emdronmnt – direct action                                                                                              645.00c              6 39 .000
I-tea 730.1           ^pcr-ifio rapport fer the CesæiEBion * 3
                      materai activities – direct action                                                                                     332.000              378.000
Article 73¿      - Jrsiirect asd concerted action – euality
                      of life
Ite» 7367        – îfe&ical research II – concerted Region                                                                               2 - Ç00 _ 000       1 «, 800 o 000
Article 737      – lalireot and concerted action –
                      technological development
lts» 7371         ™" Fo^i teeb»í©lo¿y I – concerts'.! actioxt                                                                                "i 50.000             150.000
τα.
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        un        -j ScicZwG Π ΙΤΤΓΪ tochjiolv^jT for ¿dvôlw^«iâul –
                      indirect action                               ,                                                           - Χ      3.000.000                800.000 -
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  «ï CHAPTER B /82   - FINANCIAL COMPENSATION TO MEMBER STATES
                       WHICH ARE MOT EFFECTIVELY AND FULLY
                       PARTICIPATING IN THE EUROPEAN MONETARY
                       SYSTEM
  Article 820        – Financial compensation to the United
                       Kingdom                                              2.827.100             2.827.100
  Article 821        - Financial compensation to Greece                        104.200               104.200
  TO CHAPTER B /93   - COOPERATION WITH NON-ASSOCIATED
                       DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
  Article 930        - Financial and technical cooperation with
                       non–associated developing countries                65.000.000            65.000.000
  TO CHAPTER B /94   - SPECIFIC MEASURES FOR COOPERATION WITH
                       DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
  Article 941        - Cqnpnrdty contribution towards schemes
                       concerning developing countries carried
                       out by non-£o veramente! organizations               8.000.000            8.000.000
  TO CHAPTER B /95   - EXCEPTIONAL MEASURES TO ASSIST
                       DEVELOPING AND OTHEK NON-MEMBER COUNTRIES
  Artide 950         - Aid to disaster victims in developing
                       and other non–member countries                    127.000.000           127.000.000
  TO CHAPTER B /100 - PROVISIONAL APPROPRIATIONS
                       Reserve                                                  -              153.700.000
                       TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS TRANSFERRED                  498.828.000           498.828 .OOO
  The Financial Controller approved this proposal on 6 August 1982 in accordance with
   Article 21(4 ) of the Financial Regulation and certified that the appropriations are
  available .
 ---pagebreak---                                          GROUBDS
Preliminary note
At its meeting on 28 July last the Council considered the preliminary
draft of Supplementary and Aiaending Badgat No 1 /1982 , which the
CoffiHission presented on 15 June 1982 .,        It finally decided not to
establish a draft budget on that basis®             It did s however ; state that
it would exandne with an open aizxl any proposals for transfers of
appropriations that the Commission might wish to present to the
budgetary authority in order to achieve the results it had sought in
its preliminary draft .
Th® Commission is accordingly presenting this proposal for transfers
of appropriations based on the same grounds as were set out in the
&£pl£tH£i/vory &£j£Gra4jiuLi ^CGG!«p«u^r,iu^     y*'s.fc.iLimi draTt *
 ---pagebreak--- SECTION III /A
0 ) CTT .'.T" ?") - IHVSSTMFrHTS IN IMMOVABLE PROPERTY , RENTAL OP BUILDINGS AND
                      ASSOCIATED COSTS
Aogfi.3ltioa affld . cnnE^rEctien of ininysbla property ( Articles 206 sal 207 )
( a ) BraB8elB
The Commission is currently renting from the Belgian State a building at
120 , rue de la Loi , with a total area of 9*604 n£, adjacent to undeveloped
land suitable for the construction of a building contiguous to the existing
one . having an area of approximately 40.000 ■£ *
                                                                                 9
The Commission can acquire a building complex with a total area of 50*000 n
by carrying out the following operations :
- purchase of building at 120 , rue de la Loi ;
- construction of a new building:
- taking out a long lease to cover the whole of the site of the building
   complex*
The purchase price of the existing building is 5.2 million ECU ( Article A 206 :
Acquisition of immovable property)*
The total cost of construction of the new building is estimated at
36 ,6 million ECU*
To cover the cost of earthaoving aad the main structure , the Commission has
asked for 14,8 million ECU in the preliminary draft budget for 1983 *
In order to launch the project it is asking for 1 .8 million ECU to cover the
costs of invitations to tender and the acquisition of plans and studies
already carried out by the Belgian State ( Article A 207s       Construction of
buildings )*
The appropriations required for pursuing and completing the construction work ,
totalling 20 million ECU , will be requested later as the work progresses .
 (b ) Tokyo
The Commission asked in vain for 6 ©904*000 ECU to be entered in the 1980 "budget
for the purchase of building land (5*530.000 ECU) and for construction work to
begin ( 1*374*000 ECU - a third of the planned cost ) on a building for the Tokyo
 Delegation*
For 1981 it asked for 2,094 million ECU for the construction work, but it
received only 1,5 million ECU to buy a building*
The appropriation in the 1982 budget is again 1,5 million ECU , whereas the
 Commission had asked for 7»2 million ECU to buy land and a further
 1,3 million ECU to construct a building*
 Following the failure of the attempts to carry out the project , the Commission
 proposes that the operation be launched as follows :
 – the purchase of land will be negotiated and concluded in 1982 subject to the
     entry of 12.8 million ECU , plus the 1 ,5 million ECU which the Commission
     proposed to the budgetary authority, in May, to transfer rom ap er
     (Provisional appropriations ) to Article 206 (Acquisition of immovable property
 - construction of the building will begin in 1983 subject to an appropriation of
     1,38 million ECU , which the Commission has asked to be entered in tne
     1983 budget :
 ---pagebreak--- - the appropriations required for completing the construction work
    ( approximately 2,76 million ECU ) will "be requested later as the work
    progresses .
The appropriation requested ( 12,8 million ECU ) is entered in Article A 206
( Acquisition of immovable property),
( e ) The "budgetary arrangements for financing immovable property projects
are summarized in the table below :
                                    1982 budget Transfers           1983          Still to     Total
                                    ( transfer       requested      budget        be
              Projeot               of                                            financed
                                    appropri­
                                    ation)
  Purchase of building
  120 , rue de la Loi                                  5.200.000                         •     5.200.000
  Construction of extension to
  building , 120 , rue de la Loi            •          1.800.000   U. 800.000      20.000,000 3S .C- 00.000
  Purchase of land in Tokyo             1.500.000     12.800.000          -              m    14.300.000
  Construction of building in
  Tokyo                                      -             .         1,380.000      2.7ÍO.OOO  4.140.000
  Construction of building in
  Canberra                                   -             -            950.000     1.425.000  2. 375 . 000
  Total investments in
  immovable property                    1,500.000     19.800.000   17.130.000      24.185.000 62.615.000
 Other appropriations in
  Chapter 20                          66 . 91 A. 500       9       7 *. 304 . 000
  Chapter 20 – Total                                  19.800.000   91.434.000
( l ) Including 434«000 ECU in Chapter 100.
( 2 ) Article 269 – Monitoring application of certain steel industry measures –
                      measures appHoabie after 30 June 1982
This article , which the Commission proposes be allocated 5 million ECU , is to
finanoe the arrangements for monitoring the steel production quotas , which
will have to be maintained beyond 30 June 1982 .               It will give the Commission
the means to exercise its powers of investigation , referred to under
Article 47 of the ECSC Treaty , for implementing the measures designed to
enhance the competitiveness of the Community steel industry*
 ---pagebreak--- SECTION III/ B
(1 ) CHAPTER 52 - MEASURES UNDER THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM TO REDUCE
                       ECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN THE COMMUNITY
The inorease in expenditure arises from the release of appropriations
relating to EMS interest subsidies not used in 1981 .              Their entry in
the 1982 budget will enable the measures provided for "by the European
Council in its Resolution of 5 Deoember 1978 to be implemented in full .
Finanoial compensation is paid to the United Kingdom and Greece , member
countries which , since they do not participate fully and effectively in
the European Monetary System , do not have to share the cost of its
implementation.
(2)     Item 5411 – Community measures in the fraaework of integrated
                      operations
On 23 November 1981 the Commission sent the Council a proposal for a
Regulation instituting a specific action on behalf of housing in
Northern Ireland ( C0M(81)707 final of 18 November 1981 ).
Consideration of this proposal is at an advanced stage and it is
reasonable to assume that the regulation in question will be adopted in
the near future .
The appropriation earmarked for 1982 in the financial statement attached
to the proposal was 28 million ECU. In the end an appropriation of
 16 million ECU was entered in the 1982 budget under Item 5411 .
 The Commission is proposing that the appropriation in Item 5411 be
 increased to 28 million ECU as originally intended .
 It accordingly proposes that the appropriation of 16 million ECU
 entered in Item 5411 be inoreased by 12 million ECU.
 ( 3 ) EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND (Chapters 60 to 62 )
 There are two reasons for the request for additional appropriations for
 the Social Fund :
 - the disastrous employment situation, with young people now accounting
     for 37,2^6 of total unemployed and the gaps between the richest and
     poorest regions of the Community growing wider ;
 - the intolerable gap between applications for aid made to the Social
     Fund and available budgetary resources : during 1982 applications
     totalling over 3.087 million ECU are expected , exceeding the available
     resources of 1.34-5 million ECU "by 129»5%*
 To enable the Fund to pursue its prime objectives, namely the fight ^inst
  structural unemployment , mainly among young people and in              e
 region.,
  110 Billion tt.ECUinconiiitllient
                  Ftod-. budgetary Illation     for for
                                    •PPropriationB  1982 Itwii
                                                          -Mt 6010inc(ESP _– Jsr^Aid in ^
  fields of vocational training and geographical mobility) and ty 105J*^on ECU
  I iu ffliiiioa     XXI uvuiuij.                          . , . .  v   j   w in * mi 11 *i nn ECU
  in commitment appropriations for Item 6100 (Aid to improve the «^°^meni8
  situation in certain regions ). According to curren es ma                              while
  in payment appropriations , 64,5 million ECU is
  the remaining 150,5 million ECU will serve as a reserve in Chapter 100.
 ---pagebreak--- (4)     CHAPTER 73 - RESEARCH AND INVESTMENT EXPENDITURE
Appropriai; ions requested :    34 i 287 million ECU in commitment appropriai; ione
                                and 31 . 087 million ECU in payment appropriatane .
                                                                                   ECU
                                                   Commitment              Payment
                                                 appropriât ions   appropriations
   Item 7300     Nuclear safety                    26.519.OOO           26.541*000
   Item 73OI     New sources of energy-                790,000                779.000
   Item 7302     Study and protection of
                 the environment                       646.OOO                639.000
   Item 7304     Specifio support for the
                 Commission ^ sectoral
                 activities                            382.000                378.000
   Sub-total – Direct action –
                 Joint Research Centre –
                 joint programme                   28.337.000           28.337.000
   Item 7367     Medical research                   2.800.000             1.800.000
   Item 7371     Pood technology                       I5O.OOO                I5O.OOO
   Item 7374     Science and technology
                 for development                    3.000.000                 800.000
   TOTAL                                           34.287.OOO           3I.O87.OOO
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A.    The purpose of these transfers xs :
1.    to restore to Item 7300 the 7 million ECU in commitment and payment
      appropriations transferred provisionally at the beginning of 1982
      ( transfer 1 /82 ) to Article 269 for monitoring application of the
      steel measures .     These appropriations are essential for the
      implementation of the JRC 's 1982 research programme .
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2 . to allocate 21.337 million ECU in commitment and payment
    appropriations to Article 730 ( Direct action - joint programme )
    with a Tie* to :
    ( a) boosting Item 7300 Tdqt 17,5 million ECU in commitment and
         payment appropriations as part of the adjustment of the
         1980-83 JHC programme and in particular the reassessment of
         the Reactor Safety Programme - notably the Supei^-Sara project ;
    (b) building up the infrastructure of the JRC Establishments ,
         especially the lepra Establishment , irrespective of the
         scientific content of the programme and purely as a measure of
         sound management ( completion of the administrative building and
         construction of an entrance building );   financing the
         construction of a bunker for the storage of fissile materials
         on the Ispra site ( approx. 3,8 million ECU in commitment and
         payment appropriations ).
3.  to launch three new programmes which are shortly to be approved ,
    namely J
    . the Medical Research III programme, 1 982-86
    • the Pood Technology programme ( COST 90a), 1 982-85
    • the Science and Technology for Development programme , 1 982-85 .
    The appropriations earmarked in 1982 for the launching of these
    three programmes total 5,95 million ECU in commitment appropriations
    and 2,75 million ECU in payment appropriations .
 ---pagebreak--- ( s ) CHAPTER 82 - FINANCIAL COMPENSATION TO MEMBER STATES WHICH ARB
                          K0T ggspgcTjv^Y MB FULLY PARTICIPATING IS THK
                          ItJHOPEiH MOH?PABY SYSTEM
      Article 820 - Finsaeial easapensEtion to the Ifeit^_KiKgdora
      jbrfciele 821 –
                  *' '■ »   QMCUfcMl J'Ji.TtfC ,T t■{ «*KT SF32W,iroi "** l "»' 1
These gross represent the additional financial compensation to the
United Kingdom &&&. Greece in respect of EK3 interest subsidies net used
 in 1981 ( se® tide 520 )* Financial compensation is paid tetany
Keaber Stat® not effectively aed fully participating in the EMos it is
 proportional to the shares of the United Kingdom and. Greece in the cost
 of interest subsidies gs-svrrfesd under the SMS and of the resulting
 compensatiorie
 ---pagebreak--- ( 6 ) CHAPTER 93 - COOPERATION WITH BOB-ASSOCIATED IEVELOPIBG COUBTRIES
       CHAPTER 94 - SPECIFIC MEASURES FOR COOPERATION WITH IEVELOPINO
                     COUNTRIES
       CHAPTER 95 - EXCEPTIONAL MEASURES TO ASSIST IEVELOPINO AND OTHER
                     NOK-MEMBER COUNTRIES
       SPECIAL PROGRAMME TO COMBAT HUNGER IN THE WORLD
A.    General outline of the proposed action
The Commission took up the subject of hunger in the world in a
communication to the Council of 2 October 1981 entitled "Towards a plan
of aotion to oombat world hunger" ( COM( 81)560 final ).    The proposals
involved four types of operation :
( a)   a special food aid operation to mitigate the consequences of the
       shortages in the least developed countries ( LLDCs ) and to make
       available to the International Emergency Food Reserve the
       resouroes it lacks ;
( b)   action to support the national agricultural development policies
       of developing countries as part of coordinated food strategies ;
(c)    aotion on specific fronts to help countries struggling against
       worsening natural conditions for production and to develop their
       potential resources ;
(d ) measures to give developing countries more secure food supplies
       from external sources .
The various ideas set out in the communication were discussed in detail
within the Council        Parliament . On 3 November 1981 the Council
 ( Development ) confirmed in its conclusions that various schemes of
action should be started !     it allocated an additional single sum of
40 million ECU for food aid to the least developed countries in 1981
and approved the implementation of food strategies involving food aid
and technical and financial assistance from the Community and the
Member States . The Counoil also asked the Commission to submit
 specific proposals for aotion to safeguard and develop the agricultural
potential of the developing countries .
 ---pagebreak--- For its part , Parliament has on several occasions since the Ferrero
report stressed the need to get conservation schemes under way
immediately and to initiate more fundamental action to develop
agriculture and food production .
These ideas and measures were also discussed outside the Conanunity
framework at the meeting in Rome (6 to 21 April 1982 ) on the fight
against hunger in the world.
Bo    Specific action planned for 1982
     «wWffrtmaMàww n it*.»1–n 1
The specific measures planned under the special programme proposed for
1982 are described in detail in four Commission communi cat ions to the
Council vizi
– the eoaaunication on emergency aid for refugees „ displaced persons
   and persons affected         the events in South~Eaet Asia, Afghanistan,
   Central M«rica and Angola ( Boo . CCM(82)354 final )?
– the communication on Cossarariity aid for I2STRWA ( Boo® COM( 82)227 final );
™ th® comunication on the situation in Central iserica ( COM( 82)257 )
   which is in response to the concern espreas&d by the European Council
   at the steadily rising tension in this area due principally to grave
   economic probless and social inequality .       The European Council at
   the time agreed that aid from the Community and the Member States for
   Central America and the Caribbean should be coordinated and stepped
   up as much as possible ;
– the ooaanunication concerning a special programme to combat hunger in
   the world ( C0M(82)320 final ).
The special programme comprises three types of action :
– emergency aid ;
– action to support food policies ;
– initial action in speoific areas linked to the problem of hunger in
   the world .
The plan is thus an overall approach comprising Community aid for
immediate relief measures and development schemes attacking the causes
and worst symptoms of poverty and underdevelopment in terms of food
production.
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Article 930 – Financial and, technical cooperation with developing
               countries
               Conmitment appropriations + 65 million ECU
               Paymerrt appropriations     + 65 million ECU
The Central American countries faced with the most serious financial
problems need help in securing their food supplies and improving
conditions for the implementation of agricultural reform policies ( see
C0M( 82)257 final )*   It is therefore proposed that differentiated
appropriations enabling the Commission to grant these countries the aid
envisaged ty the Counoil be oharged to this heading .
Article 941 – Community contribution towards schemes concerning
               developing countries carried out by nongovernmental
               organizations
               Conmitment appropriations + 8 million ECU
               Payment appropriations      + 8 million ECU
As the Commission pointed out in its communication to the Council
( C0M(82)320 final ) of 3 June 1982 NOOs oan carry out the following
measures on a 00–financing basis with the Community f
– measures to support food policies :                     4»5 million ECU
– measures on a specific theme * comprising :
   • firewood                            5^0*000 ECU
   • village water supply              2.200.000 ECU
   • training                            800.000 ECU
The same amount is requested in commitment appropriations and in payment
appropriat ions •
 ---pagebreak---                                  - 11
CHAPTER 95 - EXCEPTIONAL MEASURES TO ASSIST DEVELOPING AND
              N0N-MEM3ER COUNTRIES
Artiole 950 - Aid for diaaater victims in developing and non-member
                countries                           127 million ECU
This is a special programme of an urgent and exceptional nature ,
which has to be implemented relatively quickly *
1.  Emergency measures to assist refugees            35 million ECU
    These measures are designed to help refugees , displaced persona
    and persona affected by various upheavals in different parts of
    the worlds Urgent calls have been made to the Commission by the
    Secretary-General of the United Nations f the United Nations High
    Cosuaissioiaer for Refugees , the International Coamittee of the
    Bed Cross and a number of non-governasntal organizations .
    The following table shows the regions where action is planned
    said the asounts proposed :
                        Number of     Needs to be       Amount of       Pood aid
     Regions
                        refugees/     covered in      aid proposed      approved
                        displaced        1982                          or planned
                        persons      (million ECU )    (million ECU ) (million ECU )
 South–east Asia          343.000          43               10             1,8
 Vietnamese , Lao
 and Κampuchean
 refugees
 Pakistan               2.200.000          65               10            21,4
 Afghan refugees
 Central America          500.000          41               10             2,6
                          500.000          13                5             2,9
 Naaibian refugees
 Total                  3.543.000         164               35            28,7
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The Commission thus considers that emergency aid worth 35 million ECU
should be granted to the various groups concerned , in addition to the
food aid already approved or planned , which is worth 29 million ECU .
Through this aid the Community will be helping to guarantee the
survival of at least 3*200.000 people in 19^2 , which is the number
of people benefiting from aid programmes already transmitted by
humanitarian organizations . The budgetary decision will have to be
taken with the minimum of delay , since otherwise the lives of some of
these people will be in immediate danger .
The appropri at i ons requested will be used to finance the usual forms
of eoergenoy aid in accordance with the remarks accompanying Article 950
of the budget . It is proposed that they should be entered under that
Artiole .
2.   Special action to combat hunger in the world               76 million ECU
( a) Specific measures to support food policies
     The specifio measures to support food policies are short–term
     projects to make available to producers in developing countries
     ( crop and livestock farmers and fishermen) the equipment and
     material they need for production^ or marketing purposes . They
     involve the supply of :
     - inputs such as fertilizers , seeds , pesticides ;
     - small agricultural machinery ( for manual use or animal traction),
        fishing boat equipment , spare parts , etc .;
     - equipment necessary for installing or maintaining storage
        buildings for rural communities , and equipment for bagging,
        weighing, milling and ginning ;
     - means of disseminating information on simple techniques for
        preventing losses after harvesting .
      Recipient countries
      The recipient countries will be :
      - countries receiving Community support under the food aid
         policies ;
         ^+>1 OT» T T "HPa facinct very grfive finsnci&l problems ) whose
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         additional aid is given .
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The objective is to provide agricultural equipment and material
before it is too late and to begin longer-term development schemes
of th© type described below under the third heading of the special
pregrasae ( action on specific themes ).. The Commission therefore
proposes to sell the material obtained under this special aid
prograaae on the spot and to allocate the funds raised by the sale
to long-term measures .
Some of these measures will be cofinanced by non-governmental
organisations where they can be easily integrated into schemes
being ran by those organizations . The planned Community contribution
is some 2.5 nillion ECU ( see Article 941 ).
3.    Operations on specific themes
The thematic approach sketched out in the Commission 's communication
of October 1981 on the fight against hunger in the world is designed
to preserve the natural heritage of the developing countries and
improve the conditions for production .
Although these thematic operations belong inherently to long-term
strategics , the Commission considers it essential to begin a number
of such schemes on a trial basis , selecting projects which can be
put into operation within a relatively short time .
The theses of the proposed operations are :
- rational use of firewood , which is the main source of energy .
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   particularly in Africa, for domestic use , and consumption of which
   by far outstrips the reg»nerative capacity of the wooded areas ;
- desertification control and reforestation ?   it is planned to
   develop the vegetation po^ntied (nurseries ) , to set up a system
   for remote sensing of the vegetation cover on the periphery of the
   Sahara zone and to initiate study and research schemes ;
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- village and rural water supplies :   this will involve providing
   material for creating water points ( drilling equipment ), carrying
   out drilling, supplying pumping equipment (manual or solar pumps ),
   granting financial support to specialist regional bodies such as
   the CILSS , encouraging research into pumping techniques and training
   management staff ;
– control of endeaio diseases in cattle :   cattle plague , trypanosomiasis ,
   Afrioan swine fever and brucellosis .
All these operations neoessarily involve both research and training of
staff *
3 . Financial contribution to PITRWA'B eduoation programmo 16 million ECU
Under the multiannual agreement ( 1981-83 ) between the Community and the
United lations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UURWA),
this body receives food aid in kind and financial aid in cash to cover
various expenses connected with food, aid and the purchase of local food
products *
 For 1982, UNRWA has asked for a reduction in the quantity of food aid
 it receives and for additional aid in cash to help finance the education
 programme it is running in the Middle East. The contribution requested
 is 16 Billion ECU *
 The Commission has just proposed this readjustment of Community aia %o
 UHRWA in a communication to the Council dated 13 May (COM(82)227 final;.
 The 16 million ECU in norwiifferentiated appropriations should come
  from Article 950 *