CELEX: 31973D0125
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 standards and reference substances (certified reference substances)

9 . 6 . 73                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 153 /9
                                                COUNCIL DECISION
                                                    of 14 May 1973
              adopting a research programme for the European Economic Community in the field of
                          standards and reference substances (certified reference substances)
                                                     (73 / 125/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                                Article 2
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­               The upper limit for expenditure commitments and for
pean Economic Community, in particular Article 235               staff necessary for the implementation of this pro­
thereof ;                                                        gramme shall be 5.40 million units of account, and
                                                                 62 staff, the unit of account being defined in the
Having regard to the proposal (from the Commission ;             Financial Regulation on the establishment and im­
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Par­                plementation of the budget of the European Com­
liament ;                                                        munities and the responsibility of authorizing and
                                                                 accounting 'officers .
Having regard to the Council Resolution of 17
December 1970 on the procedure for adopting                                              Article 3
research and training programmes ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 ( a) and (h) of the               The Commission shall ensure that this programme is
Treaty establishing the European Economic Com­                   carried out and, to this end, shall request the as­
munity, ( the activities of the Community shall include          sistance of the Joint Research Centre. It shall submit
the elimination, between the Member States, of                    an annual report to the Council on the subject.
quantitative restrictions on the import ' and export
 of goods and of all other measures having equivalant                                    Article 4
effect, together with the approximation of the (laws
of the Member States to the extent required for the
proper ' functioning of the common market ;                      The programme defined m the Annex shall be sub­
                                                                 ject to review at the beginning of the second year, in
Whereas the research projects which are the subject              accordance with the appropriate procedures, and in
of this Decision therefore appear necessary in order             the light of the decisions of the Paris Summit Confer­
 to achieve certain Community objectives in the                  ence .
 context of the functioning of the common market ;
Whereas the Treaty establishing the European                                             Article S
Economic Community made (no provision for the
powers required for these purposes ;                             The information resulting from the implementation
                                                                 of the parts of the programme defined in the Annex
                                                                 will be disseminated in accordance with the con­
 HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                 ditions and within the limits which will be fixed at a
                                                                 later date .
                          Article 1
A research programme for the European Economic                   Done at Brussels , 14 May 1973 .
 Community in respect of standards and reference
 substances ( certified reference substances ) as set out                                            For the Council
 in the Annex to this Decision is hereby adopted for
                                                                                                      The President
 a period of four years beginning on 1 January 1973 .
 This Annex forms an integral part of this Decision .                                              R. VAN ELSLANDE
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                                                             ANNEX
                                                        DIRECT ACTION
                                                 NON-NUCLEAR PROJECTS
                                              Standards and reference substances
                                                 (certified reference substances)
              Joint programme
              A maximum of 5.4 million units of account shall be allocated to this objective , the number of
              staff being fixed at 62 (including a programme staff of 34).
              The objective shall include :
              — technical assistance tasks for the secretariat of the project : inquiry on the needs of and the
                  situation in the Community in this field, dissemination of information and processing of
                  data ;
              — experimental work (chemical analysis, physical and technological properties of reference
                  substances) in laboratories participating in the project ;
              — technical assistance to the Commission (elimination of technical obstacles, Common Cus­
                  toms Tariff, etc).
              The experimental work will be carried out, for the time being, by the Ispra establishment.