CELEX: 21985A0731(02)
Language: en
Date: 1985-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Community-COST Concertation Agreement on a concerted action project on the use of lignocellulose-containing by-products and other plant residues for animal feeding (COST Project 84 bis)

31 . 7 . 85                          Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 199/45
                              COMMUNITY-COST CONCERTATION AGREEMENT
                on a concerted action project on the use of lignocellulose-containing
                 by-products and other plant residues for animal feeding (COST Project 84 bis)
THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,                                 The States shall remain entirely responsible for the
                                                                 research carried out by their national institutions or
 hereinafter referred to as 'the Community',                     bodies .
                                                                                          Article 2
THE SIGNATORY STATES TO THIS AGREEMENT,
                                                                 Concertation between the Contracting Parties shall be
 hereinafter referred to as 'the participating non­              effected through a Community-COST Concertation
 member States',                                                 Committee, hereinafter referred to as 'the Committee'.
Whereas a research project on single-cell protein               The Committee shall draw up its rules of procedure.
production and utilization in animal feeding, imple­             Its Secretariat will be provided by the Commission of
mented by a memorandum of understanding signed                   the European Communities, hereinafter referred to as
                                                                'the Commission '.
on 27 March 1980 within the framework of European
Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical            The terms of reference and the composition of this
Research (COST) (COST Project 83/84), has yielded               Committee are defined in Annex B.
very encouraging results ;
                                                                                         Article 3
Whereas by its Decision of 2 April 1984 the Council
of the European Communities adopted a Community                 In order to ensure optimum efficiency in the execu­
concerted action project on the use of lignocellulose­          tion of this concerted action project, a project leader
containing by-products and other plant residues for             may be appointed by the Commission in agreement
animal feeding ;                                                with the delegates of the participating non-member
                                                                States on the Committee .
Whereas the Member States of the Community and
the participating non-member States, hereinafter                                         Article 4
referred to as 'the States', intend, subject to the rules
and procedures applicable to their national                     The maximum financial contribution by the Contrac­
programmes, to carry out the research described in              ting Parties to the coordination costs for the period
Annex A and are prepared to integrate such research             referred to in the first paragraph of Article 1 shall be :
into a process of concertation which they consider will         — 650 000 ECU from the Community,
be of mutual benefit ;
                                                                — 65 000 ECU from each participating non-member
                                                                     State .
Whereas the implementation of the research covered
by the concerted action project will require a financial        The ECU is that defined by the Financial Regulation
contribution of approximately 25 million ECU from               in force applicable to the general budget of the Euro­
the States,                                                     pean Communities and by the financial arrangements
                                                                adopted pursuant thereto.
                                                                The rules governing the financing of the Agreement
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS :                                        are set out in Annex C.
                                                                                         Article 5
                          Article 1
                                                                1 . Through the Committee, the States shall
The Community and the participating non-member                  exchange regularly all useful information resulting
States, hereinafter referred to as 'the Contracting             from the execution of the research covered by the
Parties', shall participate for a period extending until 1      concerted action project. They shall also endeavour to
April 1988 in a concerted action project on the use of          provide information on similar research planned or
lignocellulose-containing by-products and other plant           carried out by other bodies. An information shall be
residues for animal feeding.                                    treated as confidential if the State which provides it so
                                                                requests .
This project shall consist in concertation between the
Community concerted action programme and the                    2. After having consulted the Committee, the
corresponding programmes of the participating non­              Commission shall prepare annual progress reports on
member States. Research topics covered by this Agree­           the basis of the information supplied and shall forward
ment are listed in Annex A.                                     them to the States .
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3 . At the end of the concertation period, the                 For those Contracting Parties which transmit the noti­
Commission shall, after having consulted the                   fication after the entry into force of this Agreement, it
Committee, forward to the States, a general report on         shall come into force on the first day of the second
the execution and results of the project. This report         month following the month in which the notification
shall be published by the Commission not later than           was transmitted.
six months after it has been forwarded, unless a State
objects. In that case the report shall be treated as           Contracting Parties which have not transmitted this
confidential and shall be forwarded, on the request           notification when this Agreement comes into force
and with the agreement of the Committee, solely to            shall be able to take part in the work of the
the institutions and undertakings whose research or            Committee without voting rights until 31 December
                                                               1985 .
production activities justify access to knowledge result­
ing from the performance of the research covered by           4. The Secretary-General of the Council of the
the concerted action project.                                  European Communities shall inform each of the
                                                              Contracting Parties of the notifications provided for in
                        Article 6                             paragraph 2 and of the date of entry into force of this
                                                              Agreement.
1 . This Agreement shall be open for signature by
the Community and by the non-member States which                                       Article 7
took part in the Ministerial conference held in Brus­
sels on 22 and 23 November 1971 .
                                                              This Agreement shall apply, on the one hand, to the
2. As a condition precedent to its participation in           territories in which the Treaty establishing the Euro­
the concerted action project defined in Article 1 , each      pean Economic Community is applied and under the
of the Contracting Parties shall, after signing this          conditions laid down in that Treaty and, on the other
Agreement, have notified the Secretary-General of the         hand, to the territories of the participating non­
                                                              member States .
Council of the European Communities not later than
31 December 1985 of the completion of the proce­
dures necessary under its internal provisions for the                                  Article 8
implementation of this Agreement.
                                                              This Agreement, drawn up in a single original in the
3.    For the Contracting Parties which transmit the          Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek and
notification provided for in paragraph 2, this Agree­         Italian languages, each text being equally authentic,
ment shall come into force on the first day of the            shall be deposited in the archives of the General
month following that in which the Community and at            Secretariat of the Council of the European Communi­
least one of the participating non-member States              ties which shall transmit a certified copy to each of the
transmitted these notifications .                             Contracting Parties.
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                                                            ANNEX A
                               RESEARCH TOPICS COVERED BY THE AGREEMENT
            1 . Use of substrates .
            2. Use of products converted into animal feed.
                                                           ANNEX B
           TERMS OF REFERENCE AND COMPOSITION OF THE COMMUNITY-COST
           CONCERTATION COMMITTEE ON THE USE OF LIGNOCELLULOSE-CONTAINING
                  BY-PRODUCTS AND OTHER PLANT RESIDUES FOR ANIMAL FEEDING
           1.    The Committee shall :
           1.1 . contribute to the optimum execution of the project by giving its opinion on all aspects of its
                 progress ;
           1 .2. evaluate the results of the project and draw conclusions regarding their application ;
           1.3. be responsible for the exchange of information provided for in Article 5 ( 1 ) of the Agreement ;
           1 .4. suggest guidelines to the project leader ;
           1 .5. have the right to set up, in respect of each of the research topics defined in Annex A, a subcom­
                 mittee to ensure that the programme is properly implemented.
           2.    The Committee's reports and opinions shall be communicated to the States.
           3.    The Committee shall be composed of one delegate from the Commission, as coordinator of the
                 Community concerted action project, one delegate from each participating non-member State,
                 one delegate from each Member State representing its national programme and the project
                 leader. Each delegate may be accompanied by experts.
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                                                         ANNEX C
                                                 FINANCING RULES
                                                          Article 1
          These provisions lay down the financial rules referred to in Article 4 of the Community-COST
          Concertation Agreement on a concerted action project on the use of lignocellulose-containing
          by-products and other plant residues for animal feeding (COST Project 84 bis).
                                                          Article 2
          At the beginning of each financial year, the Commission shall send to each of the participating non­
          member States a call for funds corresponding to its share of the annual coordination costs under the
          Agreement, calculated in proportion to the maximum amounts laid down in Article 4 of the Agree­
          ment .
          This contribution shall be expressed both in ECU and the currency of the participating non-member
          State concerned, the value of the ECU being defined in the Financial Regulation applicable to the
          general budget of the European Communities and determined on the date of the call for funds.
          The total contributions shall cover the travel and subsistence costs of the delegates to the Committee,
          in addition to the coordination costs proper which include meetings, contracts to be concluded with
          persons or bodies in the participating States with a view to ensuring coordination and exchange of
          research workers between laboratories .
          Each participating non-member State shall pay its annual contribution to the coordination costs
          under the Agreement at the beginning of each year, and by 31 March at the latest. Any delay in the
          payment of the annual contribution shall give rise to the payment of interest by the participating
          non-member State concerned at a rate equal to the highest discount rate ruling in the States on the
          due date. The rate shall be increased by 0,25 of a percentage point of each month of delay. The
          increased rate shall be applied to the entire period of delay. However, such interest shall be char­
          geable only if payment is effected more than three months after the issue of a call for funds by the
          Commission .
                                                          Article 3
          The funds paid by participating non-member States shall be credited to the concerted action project
          as budget receipts allocated to a heading in the statement of the revenue of the Budget of the Euro­
          pean Communities (Commission section).
                                                          Article 4
          The provisional timetable for the coordination costs referred to in Article 4 of the Agreement is
          appended hereto.
                                                          Article 5
          The Financial Regulation in force applicable to the General Budget of the European Communities
          shall apply to the management of the appropriations.
                                                          Article 6
          At the end of each financial year, a statement of appropriations for the concerted action project shall
          be prepared and transmitted to the participating non-member States for information.
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ONCERTED ACTION PROJECT 'EFFECTS OF PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION ON THE QUALITY AND                                                                                                                      7      .
                                       NUTRITIVE VALUE OF FOOD (COST Project 84 bis)'                                                                                                                   85
                                                                                                                                                                                               (ECU)
                                                      1985                             1986                            1987                          1988                          Total
                              PA              CA                   PA         CA                   PA         CA                PA           CA               PA            CA               PA
                                             17 000               17 000     36 000               36 000     39 000            39 000       14 000           14 000     106 000            106 000
                             40 000         69 000               69 000      54 000               54 000     60 000            60 000       36 000          36 000      259 000            259 000
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Official
                             20 000         90 000               39 000      45 000               90 000     90 000            54 000                       82 000      285 000            285 000
                             60 000         176 000              125 000    135 000           180 000       189 000           153 000       50 000          132 000     650 000            650 000
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Journal
                                                                                                                                                                                                        of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                       European
                                             176 000              125 000     135 000         >   180 000     189 000                        50 000          132 000        650 000         650 000
                              60 000    I                    I
                                                                                                                              | 153 000                                 I
                            n60 000     ■ n 1 76 000         >n 1 25 000     n 135 000        > nl80 000     nl89 000         > nl53 000    n50 000          il32 000   > n650 000         n650 000
                               10              10                   10          10                  10          10                10          10               10             10                  0
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Communities
                            n60 000    nl76 000          nl 25 000          nl35 000      nl80 000          nl89 000      nl 53 000        n50 000      n 132 000       n650 000       n650 000
                              10              10                   10          10                  10          10               10           10               10            10               10
            es.
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                    ommission has requested for 1985 a support staff of one category C employee in addition to the resources allocated by the Decision of 2
                 , 16. 4. 1984, p. 29). During 1985, it will lay before the Council, for approval, a proposal for a new programme in the raw materials sector
                 staff complement allocated thereto by the budget authority.
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