CELEX: 51995PC0005
Language: sv
Date: 1995-01-13
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION AMENDING DECISION 94/3092/EC INTRODUCING A COMMUNITY SYSTEM OF INFORMATION ON HOME AND LEISURE ACCIDENTS

EUROPEISKA GEMENSKAPERNAS KOMMISSION
                                                  KOM(95) 5 slutliga
                                                  Bryssel, den 13.01.1995

                       FORSLAG TILL
                      RÅDETS BESLUT

                om ändring av beslut 94/3092/EG
      om införande av ett gemenskapssystem för information
               om olyckor i hemmet och på fritiden

                    (framlagt av kommissionen)
 ---pagebreak---  ---pagebreak---                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The aim of this proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 94/3092/EC
introducing a Community system of information on home and leisure accidents, is to
make the adjustments required by the accession of new Member States to the Community.

These adjustments are designed to ensure that, from 1995 onwards, the new Member
States have the appropriate instruments for conducting an accident prevention policy. This
will involve collecting and disseminating information on home and leisure accidents to
the relevant authorities and organisations at national and Community level.

The method of collecting data from hospital casualty departments has been chosen for the
new Member States, since it corresponds to the collection methods currently used by these
States.

The number of hospitals varies between 2 and 5 for existing Member States whose
population is less than or equal to 10 million. The number of hospitals for each new
Member State has been set in accordance with the size of its population and the
distribution thereof over its territory. Accordingly, 3 hospitals will be selected for the new
Member States with a population of approximately 5 million inhabitants, and 4 for those
with a population of between 5 and 10 million inhabitants.

These figures do not prejudge the content of the report and any amending proposals,
which the Commission will have to submit in 1995, in particular as regards the allocation
to the Member States of the hospitals which are to participate in the system from 1996
onwards, the aim being to ensure a homogeneous sample.
 ---pagebreak---                                   FÖRSLAG TILL
                                 RÅDETS BESLUT

                        om ändring av beslut 94/3092/EG
              om införande av ett gemenskapssystem för information
                       om olyckor i hemmet och på fritiden

EUROPEISKA UNIONENS RÅD

med beaktande av Fördraget om upprättandet av Europeiska gemenskapen,

med beaktande av Anslutningsfördraget för Österrike, Finland, Norge och Sverige,
särskilt artikel 169 i detta,

med beaktande av kommissionensförslag1,och

med beaktande av följande:

Genom Europaparlamentets och rådets beslut 94/3092/EG* infördes ett fyraårigt
gemenskapssystem för information om olyckor i hemmet och på fritiden.

Det beslutet bör anpassas för att ta hänsyn till anslutningen av tre nya medlemsstater
till gemenskapen.

HAR BESLUTAT FÖLJANDE

 EGTnrL331,21.12.1994, s. 1.
 ---pagebreak---                                         Artikel 1

Beslut 94/3092/EG ändras på följande sätt:

1.     Artikel 5 skall ersättas med följande:

       "Budgetmyndigheten skall fastställa de anslag som står till förfogande för
       varje räkenskapsår".

2.     I punkt 5 i bilaga 1 skall följande läggas till i tabellen:

       Medlemsstat                     Antal sjukhus

       Österrike                                4
       Finland                                  3
       Sverige                                  4

Det sammanlagda antalet "54" skall ersättas med "65".

                                        Artikel 2

Detta beslut skall tillämpas från och med dagen för ikraftträdandet av
Anslutningsfördraget för Österrike, Finland, Norge och Sverige.

                                        Artikel 3

Detta beslut riktar sig till medlemsstaterna.

Utfärdat i

                                                       På rådets vägnar

                                                       Ordförande
 ---pagebreak---                            FINANCIAL STATEMENT

1.    Title of operation
      Introduction of a Community information system on home and leisure accidents

2.    Budget heading involved
      B5-105

3.    Legal basis

      Article 129 A (2) of the Treaty establishing the European Community

4.    Description of operation

4.1   General objective
      In developing Community consumer protection policy, there is a need to establish
      a system for collecting data on "consumer" accidents, so as to identify the
      categories of products that give rise to hazards. This will help to provide
      guidelines based on the data gathered as to what specific measures are required.

4.2   Period covered and arrangements for renewal or extension

      1994-1997

5.    Type of expenditure or revenue

5.1   DO/DNO
      DNO

5.2   CD/CND
      CD

5.3   Type of revenue involved
      None
 ---pagebreak--- 6.     Type of expenditure or revenue

       Subsidy for joint financing with other sources in the public and/or private sector

              100% subsidy
              No. 80%

              Subsidy for joint financing with other sources in the public and/or private
              sector
              Yes

              Interest subsidy
              No

              Other
              No

              Should the operation prove an economic success, is there provision for all
              or part of the Community contribution to be reimbursed?
              No

              Will the proposed operation cause any change in the level of revenue? If
              so, what sort of change and what type of revenue is involved?
              Not relevant

7.     Financial Impact

7.1    Method of calculating total cost of operation (definition of unit costs)

Part B of the budget

1.     Work done bv the Commission: ECU 0.2 million

              methodology and data collection

              dissemination and exploitation at Community level of the national results
              and of specific analyses. Annual report (Art. 3,3).

2-     Finances allocated to the Member States for collecting, processing and exploiting
       the data: ECU 2.608 million (ECU 2.3 million, in 1994)

              support for the hospitals participating in data collection on the basis of 65
              hospitals (54 hospitals in 1994), with the breakdown shown in Annex 1 of
              the proposal for a decision (80% of costs, with a maximum of ECU 28
              000 per hospital for each year), as well as a contribution to Germany,
              Spain and Luxembourg using household surveys (80 % of the expenses as
              mentioned above with a ceiling as described in Annex II, point 2).
 ---pagebreak---                  support for the least developed national iiifirastoictures,                             by
                 strengthening appropriate data networks.

                 support for bilateral technical assistance provided to other Member Slates
                 by the Member States that have an operating daia collection system.

         Total of Part B: ECU 2.808 million ( ECU 2,5 million in Î994).

7.2.     Itemized breakdown of cost

                 Breakdown

          1. Work done by the Commission                              ECU                  200 000

         2. 65 hospitals x ECU 28 000                                 ECU                    i 820 000

             (54 hospitals = ECU 1 512 000, in 1994)

         household surveys
                                                                      ECU                  380 000
           Germany :                                                  ECU                  225 Ö0Q
           Spain:                                                     ECU                    95 000
           Lux:
       •+• support for the least developped countries
       + support for bilateral technical assistance                   ECU                    88 000

                                                                      ECU           2 808 0ÔÔ
                                                                             (ECU 2500 000 in 1994)

7.3.2     Indicative Schedule

                 period: 1994-1997

  Budget 1994          n+ 1                n+2                        n+3                         TOTAL
  2,5 Mill Ecu         2,808 Mill Ecu      2,808 Mill Ecu             2,808 Mill Ecu              10,924 Mill Ecu
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   The appropriations availible will be decided in the context of the annual budgetary procedure
   and in accordance with prospective financial strengh, depending on the results of the
   measures carried out taking into account the cost-effectiveness aspect and the method of
   payement described in 7.1.2.
 ---pagebreak--- 8.   What anti-fraud measures are planned in the proposal for the operation?

     Verification of the subsidies or of the acceptance of the preparatory, feasability or evaluation
     services or studies is carried out by the Commission prior to payment, taking into account
     the contractual obligations and the principles of economy and good financial and overall
     management. Anti-fraud measures (monitoring, submission of reports, etc.) are included in
     all the agreements or contracts concluded between the Commission and the benificiaries of
     the payments.

9.   ELEMENTS OF COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS

9.1 Specific and quantifiables objectives: target population

     The system of collecting data on home and leisure accidents should be a key indicator for
     determining consumer protection policy and specially prevention policies. This objective is
     difficult to quantify in that an in-depth study would be needed in order to determine the
     precise socio-economic costs - which are certainly very steep - of home and leisure
     accidents; moreover the costs in human terms of these accidents are heavy but not
     quantifiable.

9-2 Grounds for the operation

     The measure complements existing national mesures. The collection of the measure of data
     from hospital emergency services selected in the Member States or through household
     surveys should provide direct information on the most important accidents, on the basis of
     agreed methods in the different Member States. Moreover, the data will be collected on an
     ongoing basis. A good knowledge of data of domestic and leisure accidents is vital in order
     to allow actions and policies of prevention of these accidents. The objective of the measure
     is in line with the Directive on general product safety, for which the collection should
     provide indicators on safety problems.

     Thanks to these objective data the operational impact of this decision will be significantly
     enhanced.

     The safety of consumers in the Community must be ensured in the framework of the
     functionning of the internal market when more and more products will be circulating in the
     Community. As a result, the risks faced by consumers will increase, and it is desirable to
     have national monitoring systems which are sufficiently homogeneous to enable the
     conclusions drawn in one Member States to be used, where appropriate, in the other Member
     States and at Community level.

    Community involvement is required to enable the Member States to overcome the difficulties
    associated with the collection of data at national level. This is needed for methodological and
    budgetary reasons because if no Community assistance were forthcoming, in particular
    financial assistance, this would deal a blow to the collection of information on accidents in
    a number of Member States, specially in those with less developped administrative structures,
    a development which would seriously distort the monitoring of consumer safety in the
    Community.
 9.3 Monitoring and evaluation of the operation

      The Member States should provide the Commission with two types of information:
 ---pagebreak---        - specific data on specific products, in line with the needs for a developing consumer
         protection policy and prevention of accidents;

       - annual reports from the Member States on the implementation and results of the
         collection, on the basis of which the Commission will produce evaluation reports of the
         system at Community level (one report after two years and one at the end of the five year
         period).

       Moreover, the Commission will provide an annual synthesis report on the data collected and
       the conclusions to be drawn for the development of its consumer protection policy.

       Imponderables which may effect the specific results of the operation lie in its effective
       implementation and, above all, the functionality of the system in all the Member States,
       These depend on how well the two problems identified above are solved, in other words
       utilisation of the data and their faster availability, and in both these respects the
       Commission will do its utmost to ensure success.
                                                                 •»

9-4 Coherence with financial programming

       Is the operation incorporated in the financial programming of the DG for the years
       concerned?
       Yes.

    To which broader objective defined in the DG's financial programming does the objective
    correspond?
    Policy on general product safety.

10. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE (Part A of the budget)

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         Part A of the budget
 ---pagebreak---      1.     Personnel and management costs: ECU 0.23 million.

            - Secretariat of meetings of national experts responsible for collecting and transmitting the
              data on home and leisure accidents (three per year).

            - A 1178 Logistic, methodological and financial coordination.

              Assistance from an external organisation in defining methodology concerning
              determination of product codes, presentation and methods of analysis.
              Estimated costs: ECU 30 000

            These credits are subject to the allocation of the resources which are to be decided by the
            Commission.

          - Personnel: 1 A official (100%) + 1 B official (100%) + 1 C auxiliaire (50%).

            1 A official (100%) titre A8/A4                                     ECU 90 000 per year
            1 B official (100%) titre B4/B1                                     ECU 90 000 per year
            Al 110 1 C auxiliaire (50%)                                         ECU 17 750 per year

          The personnel and management costs will be necessary from March 1994 for the C official and from
          September 1994 for the A and B official.
          The proposed operation is set up for a period of four years.

2.        Art A/260 Studies : ECU 0.205 million

          Complementary studies necessary for specific analysis of national and Community data are required.
          These credits are subject to the allocation of the resources which are to be decided by the
          Commission.

3.        Art A/250 Costs of meetings : ECU 0.045 million

          - Meetings of the national experts at the initiative of the Commission, with two or three experts,
            from every Member State: three meetings per year.

          Total of Part A: ECU 0.50 million.

          Personnal and management costs                                       ECU 0.23 million
          Studies                                                              ECU 0.205 million
          Costs of meeting                                                     ECU 0.045 million

          Total of post A                                                      ECU 0.48 million
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