CELEX: 51979DC0230
Language: en
Date: 1979-04-24
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS BETWEEN CHAPTERS N° 6/78 (non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (79) 230
Vol. 1979/0095
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 ---pagebreak---    COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1979                              COM(79)230 final
SECTION III - COMMISSION                            Brussels . 24th April 1979
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                 TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS BETWEEN CHAPTERS N° 6 / 78
                           ( non-compulsory expenditure )
  COM ( 79 ) 230 final
 ---pagebreak--- GENERAL BUDGET - FINANCIAL YEAR 1979
SECTION III - COMMISSION
                 TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS NO 6/79
                    (Non–compulsory expenditure )
From Chapter 100 – Provisional appropriations
To Chapter 37     – Expenditure in the industrial and transport
                    sectors
   Article 374    – Technical rules in respect of industrial
                    products
    Item 3740     – Safety of persons carried in private cars
                                                  750 000 EUA
The Financial Controller has approved this proposal , attesting
that the appropriations are available at 30 March 1979 *
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The aim of the studies ana experiments carried out under a
multi-annual Community programme drawn up in 1978 is to establish
biomechanical criteria and "basic data for technical regulations to
be incorporated in future Community legislation on motor vehicles .
The purpose of this legislation is to increase the passive safety
of motor vehicles , thus mitigating the effects of accidents on
the occupants and on other road users , i.e. reducing the
seriousness of injuries or saving human lives , and to make the
Community motor vehicle industry more competitive on markets
where such legislation exists .                   .
In 1978 the initial studies and experiments concentrated on the
following four areas :
1.    human tolerances and injury criteria in respect of occupants
      of vehicles involved in head-on collisions ;
2.    human tolerances and injury criteria in respect of occupants
      of vehicles involved in lateral collisions ;
3.    information about the mechanics of injuries sustained by
      pedestrians . hit by vehicles head–on;
4.    improvement of the type–approval dummy .
A further set of studies and experiments in these four areas and
in the following .two new areas will be carried out this year in
accordance with the Community programme 's original schedule :
5.    mathematical forecasting models for injuries ;
6.    changes in the behaviour of vehicle occupants in a collision
      established from injury criteria data .
The following laboratories signed contracts with the Commission in
1978 :
( a ) The Bundesanstalt fur Strassenwesen (BAST ), Cologne , Federal
      Republic of Germany ;
(b ) The Groupement d' Intérêts Economiques , de Recherche et d'Etudes /
      Peugeot–Renault ( GIEPR), La Garenne-Colombes , France ;
( c ) The Organisme National de Sécurité Routière (ONSER ), Arcueil , France
(d ) The Nederlandse Organisatie van Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk
      Onderzoek (TNO ), Delft , Netherlands ;
( e ) The Transport Research Delegation, Stockholm , Sweden ;.
(f ) The University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmingham , United Kingdom ;
( g) The Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA), Nuneaton ,
      United Kingdom ;
( h) The Joint Biomechanical Research Project (KOB), Cologne , Federal
      Republic of Germany .
 ---pagebreak--- The group of experts set up to assist the Commission in checking that
the reports submitted "by the scientific laboratories comply with the
objectives of the contracts met on 5 March to finalize their work on
the first set of studies under contracts concluded in 1978 - Their
initial findings , which were presented at the meeting, show that
work has generally kept pace with the timetable laid down in the
contracts , thus enabling appropriations to be allocated as follows
to the different areas this year :
Area 1 :  100 000 EUA
Area 2 :  160 000 EUA ..
Area 3 ï   55 000 EUA
Area 4 :  160 000 EUA
Area 5 :   55 000 EUA
Area 6 :  160 000 EUA
Total :   690 000 EUA
These amounts represent the Commission 's contributions towards the
expenditure incurred by the bodies and experts commissioned under
contract "by the Commission to carry out the relevant studies and
experiments this year . These bodies will probably be the same as
those with which the Commission concluded contracts for the first
stage of the programme .  An Italian laboratory which will be concerned
with area 6 must also be added to this list .
The amount of the Community f s contribution will vary depending on
whether the studies are carried out by State (up to 5®f°) or private
 (approximately 30$) bodies .
OKSER , a body specialized in this field , will be responsible for the
permanent scientific coordination of the work of the contractors and
for preparing a periodic summary report on the results of this work .
An appropriation of 60 000 EUA has been set aside for this purpose .
The findings of these experiments will also be forwarded to the
parties concerned .
A total of 750 000 EUA is required to finance the continuation of
this programme this year . The Commission hence requests the Budgetary
Authority to authorize the transfer of this-amount which has been
entered in Chapter 100 under this heading ( see Point 19 of the
remarks column) to Article 374 of the 1979 Budget .
 ---pagebreak---        Breakdown of appropriations in Chapter 100
               at 28 March 1979
                                    TOTAL            TOTAL
                               APPROPRIATIONS   APPROPRIATIONS
                                     FOR              FOR
                                COMMITMEKTS        PAYMEETS
Total appropriations            193 833 000     106 401 200
Appropriations already
  transferred                       none             none
Appropriations m process
of being transferred              5 272 000       2 552 200
Appropriations still
entered under Chapter 100       188 561 000     103 849 000