CELEX: 51989PC0542
Language: en
Date: 1989-09-22
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION. AMENDING OF COUNCIL DECISION NO 85/338/EEC IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE COMMISSION WORK PROGRAMME CONCERNING AN EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT FOR GATHERING, COORDINATING AND ENSURING THE CONSISTENCY OF INFORMATION ON THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE COMMUNITY

21. 10. 89                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              No C 269/7
                                                             II
                                                     (Preparatory Acts)
                                                COMMISSION
             Proposal for a Council Decision amending Council Decision 85/338/EEC in order to provide
             for the continuation of the Commission work programme concerning an experimental project
             for gathering, coordinating and ensuring the consistency of information on the state of the
                                  environment and natural resources in the Community
                                                    COM(89) 542 final
                                  (Submitted by the Commission on 27 September 1989)
                                                       (89/C 269/06)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Agency and a European Environment Monitoring and
                                                                 Information Network (3), and whereas Article 4 of the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                 said proposal provides that the said Agency shall be
Economic Community and, in particular, Article 130s
                                                                 entrusted with and be responsible for continuing, as
thereof,
                                                                 appropriate, the work undertaken by the Commission
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               pursuant to Council Decision 85/338/EEC;
Having regard      to   the  opinion   of   the   European       Whereas, however, it is necessary and expedient to make
Parliament,                                                      provision that the work programme undertaken pursuant
                                                                 to Council Decision 85/338/EEC should be continued
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                 for a transitional period of two years pending the
Social Committee,                                                envisaged integration of Corine and the proposed
Whereas by Decison 85/338/EEC (') the Council                    European Environment Agency, and to amend
adopted the Commission work programme concerning                 accordingly by the estimate amount necessary for the
an experimental project for gathering, coordinating and          implementation of the Programme;
ensuring the consistency of information on the state of          Whereas the financing of the programme of environ-
the environment and natural resources in the Community           mental statistics laid down in the 'Statistical Programme
(hereinafter referred to as 'Corine');                           of the European Communities 1989-1992' (Council
Whereas the period of time provided for Corine in                Resolution 89/C 161/01 of June 1989, OJ No C 161,
                                                                 28. 6. 1989), which is complementary to Corine, will be
Article 1 of the said Decision was four years with effect
                                                                 covered by a separate Council Decision,
from 1 January 1985 and the amount of funds estimated
to be necessary for its implementation, indicated in
Article 2 of the said Decision was ECU 4 million;                HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Whereas in accordance with Article 3 of the said                                           Article 1
Decision, the Commission has furnished a communi-
                                                                 Council Decision 85/338/EEC is hereby amended in the
cation to the Council and the European Parliament indi-
                                                                 following respects:
cating the intermediate results and future guidelines as at
the halfway stage of the said programme ( 2 ); whereas the       (a) the reference to 'four years' in the first paragraph of
said report indicated the importance and usefulness of               Article 1 is replaced by 'six years';
the data generated and of the overall Corine                     (b) the reference to 'ECU 4 million' in Article 2 is
programme;                                                            replaced by the words 'ECU 11,5 million'.
Whereas the Commission has proposed a Council Regu-                                        Article 2
lation for the establishment of a European Environment
                                                                 This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
(') OJ No 176 of 6. 7. 1985.
O COM(88) 420 final, dated 21 July 1988.                         O COM(89) 303 final, dated 12 July 1989.