CELEX: 51975PC0418
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-25
Title: DRAFT COUNCIL DECISION authorizing the Commission to negotiate the participation of the Community in the scientific and technical cooperation project relating to electric traffic aids on major roads (COST Project 30). (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                                                                                   COM(75)418           final
                                                                                                   Brussels , 25 July 1975
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                                                          COUNCIL DECISION
                       author ; Sing the Commission to negotiate the participation of the
                          Community in the scientific and. technical cooperation project
                                   relating to electric traffic aids on major roads
                                                      (COST Project 30 ) .
                                        (submitted to the Council "by the Commission)
       COM(75 ) 413 final
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                                                     Orig :      F
                           C Olflffll* IC ATI OH
                   FROM THE COMMISSION TO THB COUNCIL
Eleven European countries , including six Community Member States , are
 engaged in drawing up a scientific and technical cooperation project
 in respect of electronic traffic aides on major roads ( COST Project 30 ).
Uith regard to aims , the Project makes special provision for :
      -  development of a system for the real-tine management and control of
         road traffic , with a view to increasing road safety , making better
         use of the highway system and providing an improved service to
         drivers ;
     -   drawing-up of common rules and standards for a coherent system to
         be adopted by the participating countries .
As regards methods , special provision is made for :
     -   cooperation among the national laboratories in the participating
         countries in the field of research and development ;
     -   a joint programme of practical trials carried out in public with
         a view to testing the preparatory stage of the Project , verifying
         the criteria adopted during this stage and determining the data
         necessary for assessment and standardization purposes .
The total duration of the work will be about six years and the costs
incurred there in will be shared among the participating countries .
In its opinion of 16 and 17 April 1975 » CREST :
a ) rocognized the interest of thi3 Project to the Connrunity ;
b ) stressed the need to proceed with the task of formulating the draft
    agreement within the framework of COST and on the basis of an
    intergovernmental agreement ;
c ) stressed the need for the Community to keep in close touch with all
    stages of this Project , with special reference to the formulation of
    recornnondations on European standard for/ system of electronic road
    traffic aids ;
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d) expressed the desire that all Member States be party to such an
   agreement j .
A direct financial contribution by the Connunity to this Project
is not , envisaged .
- In the light of the foregoing, the Commission proposes that the
  Council take the following Decision authorizing it to negotiate
  the participation of the Community in the Agreement#
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                                                               Orig. P
             Draft Council Decision , authorizing the Commission
             to negociate the participation of the Community in
             the scientific and technical cooperation project
             relating to electrio traffic aids on major roads
              ( COST Project 30)»
THE COUNCIL OP THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economio Community;
    Having regard to the draft prepared by the Commission,
Whereas a Research-Development Project relating- .to road traffic control and
regulation is being elaborated within the framework of European cooperation
in the field of scientific and technical research ( COST ); whereas the aims
of this Project , known as COST 30, are to ensure better road safety and to
improve the conditions of use of road infrastructure ;
Whereas it is necessary to ensure coordination between the results achieved
in this project and the aims of the European policies in question , as defined
in the Guidelines decided on by the Council , on 23 September 1974 » with
regard to the effect to be given to scientific and technical cooperation
with non-member countries , and in the Communication from the Commission to
the Council , on 25 October 1973 , on the development of the Common transport
policy ;
Whereas , therefore , the Community should participate in the execution of the
COST 30 Project agreement ;
Whereas , in its opinion of 16 and 17 April 1975 » the Scientific and Technical
Research Committee (CREST) recognized the interest of the participation of
the Community in the agreement ;
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HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS t ^ - - ic eo V   " " ' .' "
             . .           .. Sole Article
                                          6
The Commission shall be authorized to negociate the participation of
the Community in the agreement on tho execution of COST Project 30 in
accordance with the instructions annexed hereto#
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                                                        AKREX
                          NEGOTIATUia  INSTRUCTIONS
1* The Community shall not "be required , by virtue of its participation ,
   to make any financial contribution from its own resources .
2. The Coronunity shall "be represented on the Management Committee by the
   Commissions