CELEX: 51981DC0316
Language: en
Date: 1981-06-11
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 16/81 (Non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (81) 316
Vol. 1981/0102
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 ---pagebreak---       COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITI
GENERAL BUDGET - FINANCIAL YEAR 1981              COM(81 ) 316 final
SECTION III - COMMISSION
                                                  Brussels - 11th June 1981
                        TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 16/ 81
                           (Non-compulsory expenditure )
    C0M(81 ) 316 final
 ---pagebreak--- GENERAL BUEGET  -  FINANCIAL YEAR 1 931
SECTION III ' - COMMISSION    .
                       TRANSFER OP APPROPRIATIONS N o 1 6/ 81
                          ( non-compulsory expenditure )
FRCK CHAPTER 100  -   PROVISI ONAL APPROPRI ATIONS
TO CHAPTER 37     -   EXPENDITURE IN TEE INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORT
                      SECTORS
Article 374       -   Technical rules in respect of industrial
                      products
Item 3740         -   Safety of car occupants
                                             660 000 ECU
The Financial .Controller approved this proposal on 25 Kay 1981 in
accordance with Article 21(4) of - the Financial Regulation and certified
that appropriations are available .
 ---pagebreak--- The aim of the Community programme , launched in 1978 t is to establish basic
scientific criteria and data in biomechanics ( i.e. the study of the
resistance of the human "body to the stresses transmitted by vehicle
structures as a result of road accidents ), which 'will be used to evolve
technical specifications to be incorporated into future Community provisions
under EEC type-approval of motor vehicles . One of the requirements for the
new approval will be comprehensive tests of frontal and lateral impact using
a test dummy in order to evaluate the degree of protection afforded by new
cars . The new rules vri.ll thus increase the passive safety of motor vehicles , .
and this should diminish the risks of death or serious injury for the occupant
and for pedestrians and other road users . It will also make the Community
industry" more competitive on those market where such regulations will be
in force (l)SA, Japan and Canada).
                             • -          .       \
In t"he opinion of the group of experts assigned to assist the Commission
in' the scientific assessment of the work done by the contracting parties •
concerned j the studies made during, the first three stages of the research
programme proper ( which will be completed at the end of 1981 ) have produced
very satisfactory results and meet the objectives indicated in the various
contracts . The conclusion - of the programme can 'therefore be envisaged . This
is constituted by the fourth and last " stage , which should be completed for
the end of 1982 . The purpose is first to test the dummies developed by
means of a programme of trials for comparing the performance of different
prototypes and then to make a synopsis and overall critical appraisal of all
the work done during three stages of operational research prior to the
dummy-comparison programme . .
The laboratories with which it is planned to conclude contracts for stage
four have already been engaged in the research during the previous stages .
                                      «·
For the dummy-comparison programme they are :
- Kederlandse Organisatie .van Toegepast natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek
     ( IW-TNO), Delft , Nethêrlands ;
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_ Bundesanstalt fur Strassenv/escn ( 3A£T ) , Cologne , Qermany ;
- Organisme National de la Sécurité routière ( OHSER), Arcueil , France ;
- Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) , Nuneaton, United Kingdom ;
- Groupement d' Intérêt Economique de Recherche et d' Etudes PSA-REÎiAULT
    ( CIE RE . PSA-RENAULT) , La Garenne-Colombes , France .
Two contracts will be concluded for the synopsis and overall critical
appraisal , one with Mr Aldman of the Chalmers University of Technology
and the other with ONSER .
For stage four ( 1981 ), the appropriations should be divided as follows :
(l)    Comparisons of dummies to be used in lateral-
       impact         .       -                              495 000 1 ECU
(2)    Synopsis and critical appraisal of all the
       work under the programme                              165 000   ECU
                                         .    Total          660 000   ECU
The Community contribution to the total cost of the studies is roughly 40>.
The technical coordination of the dummy-comparison trials and the synopsis
of the work will be financed entirely by the Community .
The, Commission accordingly requests the budgetary authority to authorize
the transfer to Article 374 of the 1981 budget of part of the sum entered
for this heading in Chapter 100 ( point 20 of the remarks ).
 ---pagebreak---                                    C-ROUÏTDS
The aim of the Community programme , launched in 197° >         establish "basic
scientific criteria and data in 'biomechanics ( i.e. the study of the
resistance of the human "body to the stresses transmitted "by vehicle
structures as a result of road accidents ), which 'will "be used to evolve
technical specifications to "be incorporated into future Community provisions
under SEC type-approval of not or vehicles . One of the requirements for the
new approval will "be comprehensive tests of frontal and lateral impact using
a test dummy in order to evaluate the decree of protection afforded by new
cars . The new rules will thus increase the passive safety of .motor vehicles , .
and this should diminish the risks of death or serious injury for the occupant
                    >
and for pedestrians and other road users . It will also make the Community
industry more competitive on those markets^ where - such regulations will be
in force (l)SA, Japan and Canada).
                              • -            .  \
In "the opinion of the group of experts assigned to assist the Commission
in' the scientific assessment of the work, done by the contracting parties-
concerned ^ the studies made during the first three stages of the research
programme proper ( which will be completed at the end of 19S1 ) have produced
very satisfactory results and meet the objectives indicated in the various
contracts . The conclusion of the programme can. therefore be envisaged . This
is constituted by the fourth and last, stage , which- should be completed for
the end of T982 . The purpose is first to test the dummies developed by
means of a programme of trials for comparing the performance of different
prototypes and then to make a synopsis and overall critical appraisal of all
                                                              0
the work done during three stages of operational research prior to the
dummy-comparison programme . .
The laboratories with which it is planned to conclude contracts for stage
four have already "been engaged in the research during the previous stages .
For the dummy-comparison programme they are :
– Nederlandse Organisatie .van Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek
     ( IW-TNO) , Delft . Uetherlands ;
 ---pagebreak---                                          - 2 -
- Bundesanstalt für Strassemvcccn ( 3A£T ) , Cologne , Oennany ;
- Organisme National de la Sécurité routière ( OÏTSER ), Arcueil , France ;
-, Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA), ÏTuneaton, United Kingdcir.;
- Groupement, d * Intérêt Economique de Recherche et d' Etudes PSA-RE17AULT
     ( CIE RE . PSA-REÏTAULT ) , La Garenne-Col ombe s , France .
Two contracts will "be concluded for the synopsis and overall critical
appraisal , one with Mr Aldraan of the Chalmers University of Technology
and the other with ONSER .
For ctage four ( 1981 ), the appropriations should be divided as folloi-js :
                                                 ♦
 (l)    Comparisons of dummies to he used in lateral-
        impact                                                    495 000 v ECU
 (2)    Synopsis and critical appraisal of all the
        work under the programme                                  1o5 000   ECU
                                                   Total          660 000   ECU
The Community contribution to the total cost of the studies is roughly 4-07"
'The technical coordination of the dummy-comparison trials and the synopsis
of the work will be financed entirely by the Community . '
The Commission accordingly requests the budgetary authority to authorize
the transfer to Article 374 of the 1981 budget of part of the sum entered
for this heading in Chapter 100 ( point 20 of the remarks ).
 ---pagebreak---                   APPROPRIATIONS IN CHAPTER' 100 AT 21 MAY 1981
                                     Total appropriations     Total appropriations j
                                       for commitments            for payments     j
  1 . Total appropri .it ions         407 079 000    '        ■ 369 019 000        :
                                                                                   I
  2.  Appropriations   transferred      6 ,686 . 000              6 636 000        !
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. 3.  Appropriations being                                                         i
                                                                                    i
      transferred                      12 320 000                 7 260 000         I
                                                                                    j
  4-  Appropriations remaining
      in Chapter 100                  388' 073 000              355 073 000     ■ j!