CELEX: 51994PC0192
Language: en
Date: 1994-05-11
Title: Amended proposal for a EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL DECISION introducing a Community system of information on home and leisure accidents

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                         Explanatory memorandum
This amended proposal for a European Parliament and Council Decision
introducing  a Community   system of   information  on  home  and  leisure
accidents reflects the opinion delivered by the European Parliament at
its first reading during the plenary session of 5 May 1994.
The European Parliament delivered a favourable opinion on the proposal
and adopted two amendments concerning Annex II, points 1 and 2 of the
initial proposal, aiming to keep Community       financial  support  at a
constant level.
To ensure that the proposal was adopted, the Commission accepted these
two amendments, as given in this amended proposal, although the initial
proposal provided for degressiveness in Community financial support.
              The Commission considers that when the the Council and the
Parliament adopt the proposal they should take account of the need to
involve the Member States in financing the system on a level reflecting
the principle of subsidiarity in this area.
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    Amended Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Decision
       introducing a Community eyatem of information on home and
                             leisure accidents
       (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 189 a (2)
                             of the EC-Treaty)
                            Annex II - point 1
       Text by the Commission                        Amendment
Community financial support for the     Community financial support for
hospitals   participating     in   the  the hospitals participating in
collection    of   data    would    be  the collection of data would be
allocated   at   a    standard    rate  allocated  at a standard      rate
representing 80% of the actual costs    representing   80% of the real
in 1994, 70% in 1995, 60% in 1996       costs for the four years until
and 50% in 1997 up to a ceiling of      1997, up to a ceiling of ECU
ECU 28.000 per hospital for the         28.000 per hospital per year.
first year and with an adjustment of
the ceiling corresponding to the
abovementioned percentages for each
of the following years.
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                           Annex II - point 2
       Text by the Commission                      Amendment
Community financial support for the    Community financial support for
household surveys in Germany, Spain    the household surveys in Germany,
and Luxembourg will be allocated at    Spain and Luxembourg will be
a standard rate of 80% in 1994, 70%    allocated at 80% of the real
in 1995, 60% in 1996 and 50% in 1997   costs for the four years until
of the actual costs incurred up to a   1997, up to a ceiling of
ceiling of :
  ECU 380.000 for Germany              - ECU 380.000 for Germany
  ECU 225.000 for Spain                - ECU 225.000 for Spain
  ECU 95.000 for Luxembourg,           - ECU 95.000 for Luxembourg,
the   first   year   and   with   an   per year,
adjustement  corresponding   to  the
abovementioned percentages for each
of the following years.
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                           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
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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 by 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).
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 2.  Finances allocated to the Member States for collecting, processing
     and exploiting the data; ECU 2.3 million.
         support for the hospitals participating in data collection on
         the basis of 54 hospitals 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 ) .
         support   for the   least   developed  national     infrastructures,
         notably by strengthening appropriate data networks.
     -    support for bilateral   technical  assistance provided     to other
         Member States by the Member States that have an operating data
         collection system.
     Total of Part B: ECU 2.5 million.
 7.2.Itemized breakdown of cost
     Breakdown
     1.  Work done by the Commission               ECU     200 000
     2.  54 hospitals x ECU 28 000                 ECU  1 512 000
         household surveys
         Germany :                                ECU     380 000
         Spain:                                   ECU     225 000
         Lux:                                     ECU       95 000
+ support for the least developped countries
+ support for bilateral technical assistance      ECU       88 000
                                                  ECU  2 500 000
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7.3.2    Schedule    for   the  preliminary     draft    budget    for   multiannual
         operations whose basic
         instrument contains an "amount deemed necessary"
             period: 1994-1997
      Budget        n + 1          n + 2          n + 3          TOTAL
      1994
      2,5 Mio Ecu 2,5    Mio Ecu 2,5 Mio Ecu 2,5 Mio Ecu 10           Mio Ecu
    From 1995 on the annual provision of appropriations for this line
    will be decided in the context of the annual budgetary procedure,
    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.
8.  What   ant i- 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.
    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.
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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
    Directive,    which    will    enter     into   force    in    1994,    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.
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9.3 Monitoring and evaluation of the operation
    The Member States should provide the Commission with two types of
    information:
         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.
 ---pagebreak--- 10. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE (Part A of the budget)
10.1     Will the proposad operation involve an increase in the number
         of Commission staff ?
         No, the necessary     staff could be made       available by    internal
         reattribution of the functions
10.2     Indicate  the   amount   of  staff   and   administrative    expenditure
         involved  in   the   proposed   operation.    Explain   the   method  of
        calculation.
Part A of the budget
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
        A1110 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.
 ---pagebreak--- 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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