CELEX: 51985PC0399
Language: en
Date: 1985-07-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION ADOPTING A MULTIANNUAL RESEARCH ACTION PROGRAMME ON MATERIALS (RAW MATERIALS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS) (1986-1989)

30. 8. 85                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No C 220/3
                                                               II
                                                      (Preparatory Acts)
                                                COMMISSION
            Proposal for a Commission Decision amending Decision 73/287/ECSC of 15 July 1973
            concerning coal and coke for the iron and steel industry in the Community (coking coal system)
                                                     COM(85) 419 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 2 August 1985)
                                                       (85/C 220/04)
                                                           Article 1
            Decision N o 73/287/ECSC is amended as follows:
            Paragraph 1 of Article 7 is replaced by the following:
                The Community financing arrangements shall cover an annual quantity of coal amounting
                to no more than 8 million tonnes and an amount of no more than 36 million ECU for the
                year 1986.
                                                           Article 2
           This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the
            European Communities.
           It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1986.
           This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
           Proposal for a Council Decision adopting a multiannual research action programme on
                            materials (raw materials and advanced materials) (1986 to 19S9)
                                                     COM(85) 399 final
                            (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 12 August 1985)
                                                       (85/C 220/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           the Community a harmonious development of economic
                                                                   activities, a continuous and balanced expansion and an
                                                                   accelerated raising of the standard of living;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 235
thereof,                                                           Whereas in its resolution of 14 January 1974 on an
                                                                   initial outline programme of the European Communities
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 in the field of science and technology (x), the Council
                                                                   stated that the whole range of available ways and means
                                                                   should be used as appropriate;
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
liament,
                                                                   Whereas in its resolution of 25 July 1983 the Council
                                                                   adopted a first framework programme (1984 to 1987) for
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                   Community research, development and demonstration
Social Committee;                                                  activities (2), two of the principal objectives of which are
Whereas Article 2 of the Treaty assigns to the                     0) OJ No C 7, 29. 1. 1974, p. 6.
Community the task, inter alia, of promoting throughout            O OJ No C 208, 4. 8. 1983, p. 1.
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met by the proposed research action programme on                                               Article 2
materials (raw materials and advanced materials), namely
industrial    competitiveness      and     improvement       of      1.    The funds estimated as necessary for the execution
management of raw materials;                                         of the programme amount to 110 million ECU,
                                                                     including expenditure for a staff of 24.
Whereas the economic availability of raw materials and               2.    In the light of the experience gained in the course
processed materials is indispensable to maintaining the              of implementing the programme and after receiving the
industrial competitiveness of the Community;                         opinion of the Committee referred to in Article 3, the
                                                                     Commission shall be authorized to transfer funds from
                                                                     one subprogramme to another, provided that the final
Whereas the programme on recycling of urban and                      appropriation for any subprogramme does not differ by
industrial waste adopted by Council Decision 79/968/                 more than 15 % from the original appropriation as set
EEC ('), and subsequently amended by Decisions                       out in the Annex.
82/402/EEC O         and     83/634/EEC (3),        and     the
programme in the field of raw materials which includes                                         Article 3
subprogrammes on metals and mineral substances, wood
as a renewable raw material, recycling of non-ferrous                The Commission shall be responsible for the execution
metals and substitution and materials technology,                    of the programme. It shall be assisted in its task by the
adopted by Decision 82/402/EEC have produced                         Management and Coordination Advisory Committee
encouraging results and opened up promising prospects,               (CGC) Raw Materials and Other Materials.
relative to the objectives sought;
                                                                     The terms of reference and composition of this
                                                                     Committee shall be in accordance with Council Decision
Whereas by Decision 84/197/EEC (4) the Council has                   84/338/Euratom, ECSC EEC of 29 June 1984 dealing
adopted a concerted action within the Community on                   with structures and procedures for the management and
the use of lignocellulose-containing by-products and                 coordination of Community research, development and
other plant residues for animal feeding;                             demonstration activities (6).
                                                                                               Article 4
Whereas the European Parliament adopted on 9 March
1982 a resolution concerning Community supplies of                   The programme shall be reviewed at the beginning of the
primary minerals and organic raw materials (5);                      third year. In the light of this review the Commission
                                                                     may, through the appropriate procedures, present to the
                                                                     Council a proposal for a new four-year programme
Whereas the Treaty has not provided the necessary                    which would supersede the current programme at the
powers;                                                              end of the third year.
                                                                                               Article 5
Whereas the Scientific and              Technical Research
Committee (Crest) has given            its opinion on the            1. 'With regard to the concerted action, and in
Commission's proposal;                                               accordance with- a procedure to be laid down by the
                                                                     Commission, after having consulted the Committee
                                                                     referred to in Article 3, the participating Member States
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:                                              and the Community shall regularly exchange all useful
                                                                     information concerning the execution of the research
                                                                     covered by such activities.
                           Article 1
                                                                     The participating Member States shall provide the
 1.    A research action programme in the materials                  Commission with all relevant information for coordi-
sector (raw materials and advanced materials) for the                nation purposes.
European Economic Community as described in the
Annex is hereby adopted for a period of four years from              2.    The Commission shall prepare annual progress
 1 January 1986.                                                     reports on the basis of the information supplied, and
                                                                     shall forward them to the Member States and the
                                                                     European Parliament.
2.     The work shall be carried out as shared-cost
contract research, coordination and training activities,             3.    At the end of the coordination period the
and one concerted action, as described in the Annex.                 Commission, after having consulted the Committee
                                                                     referred to in Article 3, shall forward to the Member
(') OJ No L 293, 20. 11. 1979, p. 19.                                States and the European Parliament a comprehensive
(2) OJ No L 174, 21. 6. 1982, p. 23.                                 report on the execution and results of the coordination
O   OJ No L 357, 21. 12. 1983, p. 33.                                activities.
(4) OJ No L 103, 16. 4. 1984, p. 23.
(») EP 77.602.                                                       (') OJ No L 177, 4. 7. 1984, p. 25.
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                              Article 6                                  2.    The Commission is hereby authorized to negotiate
                                                                         the agreements referred to in paragraph 1.
                                                                         Agreements with third States participating in COST shall
                                                                         be
1.    In accordance with Article 228 of the Treaty, the                      negotiated in accordance with the conclusions of the
Council may conclude agreements with third States, in                    Council of 18 July 1978 concerning European
particular those involved in European cooperation in the                 cooperation in the field of science and technology
field of scientific and technical research (COST), with a                {\AJai; (,;.
view to associating them wholly or partly with these
programmes.                                                              (') OJ No C 100, 21. 4. 1979, p. 1.
                                                                ANNEX I
               I. PRIMARY RAW MATERIALS (MINERALS)
                   The expenditure estimated as necessary for this subprogramme is 30 million ECU.
                   It covers the following research areas:
                   1. Exploration
                       1.1. Economic geology;
                       1.2. Methods of geochemical prospecting;
                       1.3. Methods of geophysical prospecting;
                       1.4. Remote sensing.
                   2. Mining technology
                       2.1. Rock fracturing;
                       2.2. Rock mechanics and stability in underground and open-cast mines;
                       2.3. Application of robotics in mines;
                       2.4. Problems associated with depth;
                       2.5. Modelling of mining operations.
                   3. Mineral processing
                       3.1. Development of processing routes for treating indigenous and non-indigenous resources:
                            complex and low-grade ores;
                       3.2. Metallurgical processes (pyro and hydro);
                       3.3. Modelling and control in mineral processing;
                       3.4. Industrial minerals.
               II. SECONDARY RAW MATERIALS
                   The expenditure estimated as necessary for this subprogramme is 22 million ECU. This amount
                   includes a sum of 250 000 ECU for the extension from April 1988 to December 1989 of the concerted
                   action (COST 84 (a)) under item 2.4 below.
                   1. Recycling of non-ferrous metals
                       It covers the following research areas:
                       1.1. Physico-chemical characterization of metals and alloys in scraps and residues;
                       1.2. Improvement of physical separation processes;
                       1.3. Development of advanced technologies and improved metallurgical processes, both pyro- and
                            hydro-metallurgical;
                       1.4. Development of improved refining techniques for secondary metals and alloys;
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                     1.5. Upgrading the characteristics of secondary alloys to the level of primary alloys;
                     1.6. Manufacturing semi-product alloys from waste materials containing titanium, tungsten,
                          molybdenum, aluminium, etc.
                 2. Recycling and utilization of waste
                     It covers the following research areas:
                     2.1. Modelling of waste arisings, sampling and analysis (coordination activities);
                     2.2. Recycling technologies:
                          — recovery and separation processes;
                          — upgrading and use of reclaimed products;
                     2.3. Integrated technologies for the utilization of wastes:
                          — anaerobic digestion, composting and other aerobic treatments (coordination activities),
                          — production of chemicals — thermal treatment of waste (mostly coordination, with shared-
                              cost contracts for special projects);
                     2.4. Use of lignocellulose-containing by-products and other plant residues for animal feeding
                          (concerted action COST 84 (a)).
            III. W O O D AS A RENEWABLE RAW MATERIAL
                 The expenditure estimated as necessary for this subprogramme is 20 million ECU. It covers the
                 following research areas:
                 1. Wood production
                     1.1. Forest tree breeding and gene resource conservation;
                     1.2. Protection against damage from biotic and abiotic agents;
                     1.3. Better use of land resources (coordination action only);
                     1.4. Forest inventory (coordination action only).
                 2. Wood harvest, storage and transport
                    2.1. Organization of harvesting operations and development of harvesting machinery;
                    2.2. Harvesting, treatment, storage and transport.
                 3. Wood as a material
                    3.1. Properties, protection and improvement of wood and wood-based panels;
                     3.2. Development of testing and grading procedures.
                 4. Mechanical wood processing and use of finished wood products
                     4.1. Mechanical conversion and manufacturing processes;
                     4.2. Drying processes;
                     4.3. Constructional use of wood and wood-based materials;
                     4.4. Other uses of finished products made of wood.
                 5. Pulp and paper manufacturing and processing and wood chemicals
                     5.1. The physical and organic chemistry of wood defibring;
                     5.2. Chemi-mechanical pulping (high-yield pulping);
                    5.3. Pulping processes with low-grade wood;
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                5.4. Substitutes for wood fibres and material additives;
               5.5. Fibre recycling;
                5.6. The process of manufacture of paper and board;
                5.7. Products derived from wood as a source of chemicals.
        IV. ADVANCED MATERIALS (EURAM)
            The expenditure estimated as necessary for this subprogramme is 38 million ECU. It covers the
            following research areas:
            1. Metallic materials
                1.1. Light aluminium-, magnesium- and titanium-based alloys;
                1.2. Electrical -contact materials;
                1.3. High-performance magnetic materials;
                1.4. Materials for surface coatings and machine, tool and cutting equipment;
                1.5. Thin-walled castings.
            2. Engineering ceramics
               2.1. Optimization of engineering ceramics;
               2.2. Study of metal/ceramic interface cermets;
               2.3. Ceramic composites with fibres and whiskers;
               2.4. High temperature behaviour of engineering ceramics.
            3. Composite Materials
               3.1. Organic-matrix composites;
               3.2. Metallic-matrix composites;
               3.3. Ceramic-matrix composites;
               3.4. Other specific advanced materials.
                                                                   ANNEX       II
                                                             Selected publications
        — 'Mineralium deposita' , special edition of the Journal presenting selected papers arising from the EEC
            Primary Raw Materials Programme,
            Springer-Verlag, Vol. 12, Number 2B (Supplement) 1983. Also report EUR 8617.
        — 'Proceedings of the workshop on minerals leaching', Brussels, 17 November 1983, ed. M. Donato,
            Report EUR 9606.
        — Special edition of the 'Uranium' journal on EC funded projects on uranium exploration,
            Elsevier Applied Science Publ., in press.
        — 'Special publication of the Society for Geology applied to mineral deposits on metals and mineral sub-
            stances results in the areas of economic geology and geochemical prospecting', eds. J. Boissonnas,
            H. J. Schneider,
            Springer-Verlag, about 450 pages, in press.
        — 'Remote sensing in mineral exploration' by D. W. Coller et al.,
            Report EUR in press.
        — 'Assessment of results of the R & D programme on recycling of paper and board' by I. Hendry and
            R. Bernard,
            Seminar, Brussels 8, 9 and 10 February 1982.
        — 'Biological control of bark beetles', Proceedings of a seminar, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 3 and 4
            October 1984,
            Doc. EEC X I I / B O S / 7 / 8 5 , eds. J-C. Gregoire, J. M. Pasteels.
        — 'Anaerobic digestion and carbohydrate hydrolysis of waste', Proceeding of a symposium                in
            Luxembourg, 8-10 May 1984, eds.: G. L. Ferrero, M. P. Ferranti, H. Naveau,
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              Elsevier Applied Science Publ., 1984, EUR 9347.
            — 'Sorting of household waste and thermal treatment of waste', Proceedings of a symposium in
              Luxembourg, 25-27 September 1984, eds.: M. P. Ferranti, G. L. Ferrero,
              Elsevier Applied Science Publ. in press.
            — 'Utilization in agriculture of anaerobically digested effluents' by M. Demuynck,
              Doc. EEC, X I I / E N V / 0 0 , March 1984.
            — 'A review of waste sorting and refuse derived fuel (RDF) production in Europe' by J. R. Barton et al.,
              Elsevier Applied Science Publ. in press.
            — 'Composting agricultural and other wastes', Proceedings of a seminar in Oxford, 19-22 March 1984,
              ed. J. K. R. Gasser,
              Elsevier Applied Science Publ., 1985, EUR 9419.
            — 'Nd-Fe permanent magnets, Their present and future applications', Proceedings of a workshop,
              Brussels, 25 October 1984, ed. I. V. Mitchell, EUR Report N o 9229,
              Elsevier Applied Science Publ., in press.