CELEX: 51983PC0658
Language: en
Date: 1983-11-18
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION AMENDING COUNCIL DECISION 79/783/EEC IN RESPECT OF GENERALE MEASURES IN THE FIELD OF DATA PROCESSING

10.12. 83                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            N o C 334/11
                                                            II
                                                     (Preparatory Acts)
                                               COMMISSION
             Proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 79/783/EEC in respect of general
                                         measures in the field of data processing
                                                    COM(83) 658 final
                          (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 23 November 1983)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      in the operation of the common market, in particular
COMMUNITIES,                                                     the aim of establishing an overall strategy for the
                                                                 information technologies; whereas it therefore seems
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     necessary to extend the programme for an additional
European Economic Community, and in particular                   three years and to modify the content of the general
Article 235 thereof,                                             measures;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               Whereas the Commission is responsible for carrying
                                                                 out the programme and is assisted in this task by the
Having regard to the opinion of the European                     Advisory Committee for the Management and
Parliament,                                                      Coordination of Data-Processing Programmes;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
                                                                 Whereas it has become necessary to ensure a
Social Committee,
                                                                 concerted action between the Community's research
Whereas, in its resolution of 15 July 1974 on a                  and development activities and the corresponding
Community policy on data processing (*), the Council             programmes in third countries participating in
considered it desirable to prepare, in the medium                European cooperation in the area of scientific and
term, a systematic Community programme to                        technical research (COST);
promote research, industrial development and
applications of data processing;                                 Whereas the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                 Economic Community has not provided the necessary
Considering      the     communication        from     the       powers for this purpose,
Commission to the European Council in Dublin on
29 November 1979 entitled 'European society faced                HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
with the challenge of new information technologies: a
Community response';
                                                                                           Article 1
Considering the Council resolution of 25 July 1983
(2)   approving     the     principles   of     framework        Decision 79/783/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
programmes and the scientific and technical
objectives for 1984 to 1987, especially the content of            1. Article 1 is replaced by the following:
the objective 'promoting industrial competitiveness —
new technologies', and in particular the importance                   Article 1
given to the information technologies;
                                                                     A multiannual programme is hereby adopted for
                                                                     the field of data processing. Its objects are as
Whereas the programme in Council Decision
                                                                     follows:
79/783/EEC of 11 September 1979 adopting a multi-
annual programme (1979 to 1983) in the field of data                 — general measures: standardization, public
processing (J) came to an end on 11 September 1983;                      procurement, knowledge of the sector,
                                                                          training, protection for data and persons,
Whereas continuation of the programme appears                             collaboration in research and development,
necessary in order to achieve certain Community aims
                                                                     — promotion        measures: measures        covering
                                                                          software and applications.
O OJ No C 86, 20. 7. 1974, p. 1.
O OJ No C 208, 4. 8. 1983, p. 1.                                     The programme is defined in the Annex.
(J) OJ No L 231, 13. 9. 1979, p. 23.                                 Commencing on 11 September 1983 the duration