CELEX: 51980DC0572
Language: en
Date: 1980-10-01
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 9/80 (Non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (80) 572
Vol. 1980/0184
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GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1980                           COM(80)572 final
SECTION III - COMMISSION
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SECTION III   -  COMMISSION
                 TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 9/80
                    (Non-compulsory expenditure )
From Chapter 100    -    PROVISIONAL APPROPRIATIONS
To Chapter 36       -    EXPENDITURE ON SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL
                       y INFORMATION AND ON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Artide 361          -    Di ss eminati on . circulation and utilization of
                         scientific and technical knowledge
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Item 3611           -    Assessment and utilization of research results
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    ■ '   -             'N \        ■             •                      ■        ,
                                                                           200 000 EUA
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The Financial Controller endorsed this proposal on 17 September 19°0 »
certifying that the appropriations are available .
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 ---pagebreak---                                            REASONS
 Acting under its Decision of 14 January 1977 and. its programme for I98O ,-
 set out in the memorandum annexed to the President 's address to Parliament
 of 12 February , the Commission is currently running a. number of activities
 for the progressive introduction of joint industrial innovation projects .
 In the interests of the Community the Commission has been working over the
past few years towards effective exploitation of the inventions resulting
from direct '
                      and indirect research • programmes within the Community .
The ad hoc Group set up by the Heads of Industrial Affairs Departments in                  *
the Member States in February 1978 has approved a series of experiments or
pilot projects with the aim of drafting proposals for Council decisions .
In order to continue the efforts in the fields of ( a) assessment and
utilization of Community research results and (b ) industrial innovation
and to achieve the aim of submitting a draft resolution to the Council
in 1980 , the following experiments and pilot projects must be concluded
this year : 1
    (i ) Since 1978 the Standing Technological Conference of European Local
                Authorities ( STCELk) has been running a number of projects on the
                Community-wide consolidation of local . authorities 1 demand for new
                technologies . The Commission will bear some of the running costs
          ,     for these projects and " will also provide an additional 60 000 EUA
                towards a number of market research analyses and technological
      ...       studies .                        -                                     1
  ( ii ) A series of studies and investigations covering economic indicators ,
                national measures aimed at promoting innovation and certain privileged
                sectors are awaiting completion in the Member States and some of its
                non-member ' competitors*.   Approximately 40 000 SUA are required in I98O
                so that these projects can be resumed .
(iii )          The Commission has concluded an agreement with a number of venture-capital
                companies under which they will look into practicable ways of achieving
                cooperation throughout the Community with the aim of providing means
                of financing innovation by Small and medium-sized firms in particular .
                Approximately 70 000 EUA will be required for these experiments in 1980 .
  ( iv )        If the inventions emerging from research programmes in the Community -
              , are to be properly exploited , the market must be surveyed with a view
                to ascertaining the bekt possible licensing policy . At least 30 000 EUA
                is required for completion of this research in. I98O .
It will not be possible to meet the deadlines set in the memorandum annexed
to the programme address for submission to the Council , following consultations
with the Head.s of Industrial Affairs Departments , of a draft resolution on the
exploitation of inventions unless the 200 000 EUA entered in Chapter 100 are
released immediately .                                           -
The Commission is therefore requesting the budgetary authority to authorize
the transfer of the said amount from Chapter 100 to Article 3611 of the I98O budget
 ---pagebreak---       APPROPRIATIONS IN CHAPTER 100 AT 12 SEPTEMBER 1980
                                                                     EUA
,   ·                    -
                                       Appropri at ions  Appropriations
                                       for commitment     for payment
  1·   Total appropriations             75 093 900        51 693 9OO
  2.   Appropriations in process
       of being transferred              ι 309 000         1 309 000
  3.   Appropriations still
       entered in Chapter 100           73 784 900 .      50 384 900
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