CELEX: 51991PC0513
Language: en
Date: 1991-12-11
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION amending Decision No 90/233/EEC of 7 May 1990 establishing a trans­European mobility scheme for university studies ( TEMPUS )

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                            C0M(91) 513 final
                                            Brussels, 11 December 1991
                            Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL PEC IS ION
                  amending Decision No 90/233/EEC
                      of 7 May 1990 establishing
                      a trans-European mobility
               scheme for university studies (TEMPUS)
                    (presented by the Commission)
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 ---pagebreak---                             EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
   On 7 May 1990, the Council adopted, as part of the PHARE Programme of
   assistance to Central and Eastern European countries,. Decision No 90/233/EEC
   establishing the trans- European mobility scheme for university studies (TEMPUS).
   This scheme was established for an initial pilot phase of three years beginning on 1
   July 1990.
   So far, the implementation of the TEMPUS Programme has already permitted the
   financing of activities covering academic years 1990/1991 and 1991/1992.
   Procedures realting to the third academic year are in progress.
   Article 11 of the decision relating to TEMPUS provides that:
    "The Commission, in accordance with the procedure set out in Article 5 (3), shall
   establish arrangements for the monitoring and evaluation of the experience acquired
   in the implementation of TEMPUS, taking into account in particular the objectives
   set out in Article 4.
    It shall submit an interim report, including the results of the evaluation, before 31
    December 1992, as well as a proposal for the continuation or adaptation of
    TEMPUS as a whole, beyond the initial pilot phase.
    A final report shall be presented by the Commission by 31 December 1995".
3.  The Commission will use the conclusions of the evaluation as part of its input for
    preparing its proposal. For this purpose, it has made the necessary arrangements to
    entrust the implementation of the evaluation of the TEMPUS Programme to an
    outside body. The results of this evaluation will not be available before April 1992.
    The Commission will communicate the results of the evaluation at the same time as
    its proposals regarding the continuation of TEMPUS in June 1990, in order to give
    the Community bodies sufficient time to prepare the Council decision and to permit
    its adoption before the end of the year.
    However, even if this timetable is respected, it will not be possible to ensure the
    proper continuation of the implementation of TEMPUS in 1993, i.e. for academic
    year 1993/1994.
    More specifically, the new applicants' guide setting out the arrangements and
    priorities applicable to projects for academic year 1993/94 should be made ready
    before July 1992, to be followed by a call for applications for 1993/94. To ensure
    that selection results are known before the academic vacation, the final date for
    submission of requests must be set at 15 January 1993 at the latest, or earlier.
 ---pagebreak--- The objective of the present Commission proposal is therefore to extend the initial
pilot phase by one academic year, whilst respecting the obligations arising out of
Article 11 above, in order to ensure the continuity of the implementation of TEMPUS
in 1993, i.e. for academic year 1993/94.
This would enable the Council and Parliament to examine, without being subject to
unrealistic time pressure, the new Commission proposal to adopt the second phase
of TEMPUS beginning in academic year 1994/95.
For this reason the agreement of the Council and of Parliament is sought in order to
extend the application of the current TEMPUS decision by one academic year, the
Commission undertaking to deliver, by 30 June 1992, the results of the evaluation of
the TEMPUS Programme, as well as its proposals for the extension or adaptation of
TEMPUS.
 ---pagebreak---                              Proposal for a Council Decision
                            amending Decision No 90/233/EEC
                                of 7 May 1990 establishing
                                a trans-European mobility
                         scheme for university studies (TEMPUS)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
particular Article 235 thereof,
having regard to the proposal from the Commission,      .• . * . - . . : * •
having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee.
Whereas Council Decision No 90/233/EEC of 7 May 1990 established the TEMPUS trans-
European mobility scheme for university studies.
Whereas Article 11 of the decision relating to TEMPUS provides that the Commission
shall submit to the Council, before 31 December 1992, an interim evaluation of the results
of the TEMPUS Programme as well as a proposal for the continuation or adaptation of
TEMPUS beyond the initial pilot phase;
Whereas the first "TEMPUS" annual activity report (1.5.1990- 31.7.1991) which the
Commission has just made public enables members of the Council, the European
Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee to be informed of all the activities
undertaken by the Commission to implement the TEMPUS Programme;
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas the evaluation report on the TEMPUS Programme will be available as from April
1992, and that it is appropriate that the Commission should be able to avail itself of the
results of this evaluation study in order to prepare the proposal pursuant to on Article 11 ;
Whereas only a decision to extend the pilot phase for a further academic year will give
the Council, the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee sufficient
time to examine, based on the results of the outside evaluation, the new Council Proposal
and, as a result, to make their decision with a fuW knowledge of the facts;
Whereas it is essential to ensure Ihe continuity of the TEMPOS Programme and that the
programme framework for academic year 1993/1994 fee defined as soon as possible in
tS§2.
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS
Article number one of Decision: 90/233/EEC »s replaced by ftoe foîtow«% :
                                           "Article 1
The trans-European mobility scheme for university studies (hereinafter referred to as
"TEMPUS*) is hereby adopted, for an initial pilot phase *>f. four years beginning on 1 July
 1990, and subject to the monitoring and evaluation arrangements set out in Article 1V,
 ---pagebreak---                                   nflANCIAL APPENDIX
Re: The TEMPUS Scheme - Proposal for a Council Decision to alter Decision
      90/233/EEC of 7 May 1990 establishing a trans-European mobility scheme for
      higher education.
TEMPUS has no, spécifie budget line but is funded from the overall PHARE programme
budget (budget line B7-600).
76 MECU from the PHARE budget were allocated to TEMPUS in 1991; the 1992
provisional budget figure is approximately 110 MECU* it is not possible to determine the
1993 figure at present; that figure will be negotiated with the Central and Eastern
European authorities at the same time as the 1993 indicative oropramming of the PHARE
credits to be allocated to each country is discussed.
However, it is estimated that the amount to be allocated to TEMPUS for the academic
year 1993/94 • subject to the negotiations mentioned above •• may continue to account for
the same proportion of the total PHARE Budget as has been the case between 1990 and
1992 (i.e. ±.10%).
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