CELEX: 31988D0418
Language: en
Date: 1988-06-29 00:00:00
Title: 88/418/EEC: Council Decision of 29 June 1988 adopting a research and development programme for the European Economic Community in the field of applied metrology and chemical analysis (1988 to 1992)

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                                                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 206 / 29
                                                                 COUNCIL DECISION
                                                                    of 29 June 1988
                               adopting a research and development programme for the European Economic Community
                                        in the held of applied metrology and chemical analysis ( 1988 to 1992)
                                                                     ( 88 / 418 / EEC )
       THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                                    Whereas, to maximize the effect of this work, the results
                                                                                    achieved should be widely disseminated and publicized in
                                                                                    the appropriate circles;
      Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
      Economic Community and, in particular Article 130Q (2)
      thereof,
                                                                                   Whereas work on metrology and chemical analysis in
                                                                                   progress in some EFTA States could usefully be
      Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ( J ),                     coordinated with Community work under the present
                                                                                   programme :
      In cooperation with the European Parliament (2),
                                                                                   Whereas the Scientific and Technical Research Committee
      Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social                      (Crest) has expressed its opinion ,
      Committee ( 3 ),
     Whereas the Community has assigned itself the objective of                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
     achieving the internal market by the end of 1992 for which
     it has undertaken the task of eliminating technical trade
     barriers mainly through the harmonization of standard and
     technical regulations;                                                                                    Article 1
     Whereas Article 13OK of the Treaty provides for the                          1 . A research and development programme for the
    implementation of the framework programme to be carried                       European Economic Community in the field of applied
    out by means of specific programmes developed within                          metrology and chemical analysis as defined in Annex I, is
    each activity ;                                                               hereby adopted for a period of five years with effect from
                                                                                  1 January 1988 .
    Whereas the framework programme for Community
    activities in the field of research and technological                        2 . Experimental work shall be carried out under contract.
    development adopted by the Council in its Decision                           The participants may be industrial organizations, research
    87/ 516 / Euratom , EEC (4) for the period 1987 to 1991                      institutes, laboratories and universities established in the
   includes support for the application of technical                             Community.
   standards ;
   Whereas the elimination of supplementary technical                                                        Article 2
   barriers requires that the laboratories of the Member States
   have the technical means necessary to ensure the uniform                      The funds estimated as necessary for the execution of the
   application of standards, technical regulations and                          programme amount to 59,2 million ECU , including
  directives ;                                                                  expenditure on a staff of 32 .
  Whereas, to achieve this aim, it is important that the
  Community supports collaborative activities having as their                                               Article 3
  objective the harmonization of the measurements and
  chemical analyses in the Member States so as to ensure
  concordance of the results of tests and controls;                             The Commission shall be responsible for the execution of
                                                                                the programme. It shall be assisted in its function of
                                                                               programme management by the Management and
                                                                               Coordination Advisory Committee (CGC) (Scientific
 i 1 ) OJ No C 304, 14.11.1987, p. 4 and OJ No C 66 ,                          <ind Technological Standards) set up by Decision
        11 . 3 . 1988 , p . 5 .                                                84 / 338 / Euratom , ECSC , EEC (*).
(2) OJ No C 13 , 18 . 1 . 1988 , p. 75 and OJ No C 187,
        18 . 7 . 1988 .
( 3 ) OJ No C 35 , 8 . 2 . 1988 , p. 3 .
( 4) OJ No L 302 , 24 . 10 . 1987, p. 1 .                                      (') OJ No L 177 , 4 . 7 . 1984 , p. 25 .
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                          Article 4                                At the end of the programme, the Commission shall send to
                                                                   Member States and the European Parliament a report on
1 . The Commission is authorized to negotiate , in                 the performance and results of the programme.
accordance with Article 130N of the Treaty , agreements
with non-member States and international organizations , in        The abovementioned reports will be carried out having
particular with those countries participating in European          regard to the evaluation criteria set out in Annex II to
cooperation in the field of scientific and technological           this decision and in accordance with the provisions of
research (COST ), and those having concluded framework             Article 2 ( 2 ) of the framework programme set out in
agreements in scientific and technological cooperation with        Decision 87 / 516 / Euratom , EEC .
the Community with a view to associating them wholly or
partly with the programme .
                                                                                             Article 6
2 . These agreements, which are founded on the criterion           This Decision shall apply with effect from 1 January
                                                                    1988 .
of mutual advantage, are concluded by the Council ,
deciding by qualified majority, in cooperation with the
European Parliament .                                                                        Article 7
                                                                    This Decision is addressed to the Member States .
                          Article 5
The Commission shall address a report to the Council and            Done at Luxembourg, 29 June 1988 .
to the European Parliament at the end of the third year on
the basis of an evaluation of the results so far achieved .                                             For the Council
This report shall be accompanied by suggestions for                                                      The President
changes which may be necessary in the light of these
results .                                                                                              H. RIESENHUBER
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                                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                     No L 206 / 31
                                                                    ANNEX I
                                                               Programme summary
               The objective of the programme is to improve the reliability of chemical analyses and physical measurements
               ( applied metrology) so as to achieve agreement of results in all Member States .
              The projects will be chosen from those fields which are of priority importance for the Community as judged
              from an economic, environmental or public health view point.
              The priority fields are the following:
              ( a) analyses for food and agriculture, in particular:
                    — analyses in livestock (foodstuffs, hormones, antibiotics, etc.) and of the quality of cereals, fruit and
                         vegetables ,
                    — analyses of the quality of processed food (nutritional properties, presence of dangerous substances,
                         bacterial contamination);
              (b) analyses related to the environment, in particular:
                         determination of traces of dangerous compounds (in various matrices),
                    — determination of air pollutants at the workplace,
                    — mutagenicity of chemical substances ;
             (c) biomedical analyses, with priority for:
                    — the determination of enzymes and hormones (in human serum),
                    — haematological tests (e.g. blood coagulation),
                    — analyses related to cardiovascular diseases ,
                    — analysis of tumour markers and drugs in the human body;
             (d) analyses of (essentially non-ferrous) metals and surface analysis of materials;
             (e) applied metrology. The emphasis will be placed on the measurement and calibration of the most important
                   parameters for test laboratories and industrial laboratories, in particular for quality control. The subjects
                   covered will include in particular:
                        dimensional and mechanical metrology (in particular, measurements that are becoming increasingly
                        necessary for the verification of automatic machines) and the charaterization of surface states,
                   — mechanical parameters , such as force and pressure ,
                   — study of the performance and accuracy of new temperature measuring devices,
                   — improvement of optical metrology in the visible, ultraviolet and infra-red ranges and in the field of fibre
                       optics and lasers ,
                   — measurements of electrical magnitudes, in particular at high frequency,
                   — acoustic measurements , in particular as regards sound-proofing,
                   — measurements relating to ultrasonics ,
                  — liquid and gas flow measurements ,
                       methods of measurement of physical and material properties,
                       etc.,                                                   .
                                                                                       such as thermal conductivity, viscosity,'
                  — methods of determination of the mechanical properties of metals (the work will cover only the methods
                      required for the accurate determination of these properties and not the characterization of the
                       materials ),
                  — improvement of technological measurements in industry.
            The activities include in particular:
            — execution of measurement programmes involving the cooperation of laboratories in several Member States
                  (inter-comparisons),
            — improvement of methods of analysis and measurement,
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              improvement of instruments necessary for high precision measurements,
              development of transfer standards ,
              preparation and certification of reference materials ,
              storage and distribution of reference materials ,
              support for the setting-up at Community level of inter-laboratory circuits for quality assurance ,
              research grants in subjects covered by the programme,
              exchange and training of scientists in subjects covered by the programme , taking into account the needs of
              the Member States that wish to improve their capabilities in these fields ,
              dissemination of the results of the projects ,
              well-targeted advertising of the reference materials and promotion of their sale .
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                                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                   No L 206 / 33
                                                                  ANNEX II
                                                              Evaluation criteria
             The programme will be evaluated in relation to the following criteria:
             1 . providing
                  the extent support
                              to whichfor:the programme contributes to the development of the internal market, especially77bv
                  — the setting up of directives or standards,
                  — the application of directives or standards,
                     removing difficulties in relation to the application of commercial specifications;
            2. the extent to which the participants benefit from their collaboration on projects (the acquisition of
                 know-how, the diffusion of information and improvement of methods, etc.). Any additional benefits, apart
                 trom the results obtained , will also be assessed;
            3. the extent to whiclrthe programme contributes to the development of collaboration between Member
                 states, especially in the areas of metrology and standardization (harmonization, coordination, collaboration
                 in the development of new methods, etc.);
            4" th£e fxten; to which the Programme contributes effectively to the improvement of concordance in the results
                 or clinical chemistry and leads to closer interlaboratory cooperation.