CELEX: 31975D0515
Language: en
Date: 1975-08-25 00:00:00
Title: Council Decision of 25 August 1975 amending Decisions No 73/125/EEC and No 73/175/EEC adopting research programmes for the European Economic Community in the field of standards and reference substances (certified reference substances)

2 . 9 . 75                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 231 /21
                                                    COUNCIL DECISION
                                                       of 25 August 1975
               amending Decisions No 73/125/EEC and No 73/175 /EEC adopting research programmes
              for the European Economic Community in the field of standards and reference substances
                                                (certified reference substances)
                                                          (75/515/EEC)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                           replaced by the Annex to this Decision. The Annex
                                                                     shall form an integral part of this Decision.
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                                          Article 2
 pean Economic Community, and in particular Article
 235 thereof;                                                        Article 2 of Decisions No 73/ 125/EEC and No 73 /
                                                                     175/EEC shall be replaced by the following, with
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                  effect from 1 April 1975 :
                                                                         'The upper limit for expenditure commitments
 Having regard to the Opinion of the European                            and for staff necessary for carrying out this
 Parliament (*);                                                         programme shall be 6-200 million units of
                                                                          account, and 71 staff.
 Whereas Decisions No 73/ 125/EEC (2) and No 73/
 175/EEC (3) adopting research programmes for the                        The unit of account is defined in Article 10 of the
 European Economic Community in the field of stan­                       Financial Regulation of 25 April 1973 (4) appli­
 dards and reference substances (certified reference                     cable to the general budget of the European
 substances) were adopted by the Council on 14 May                        Communities.'
 and 18 June 1973 respectively in accordance with
 Article 235 of the Treaty;                                                                  Article 3
 Whereas Article 4 of the abovementioned Decisions
                                                                     Article 4 of Decisions No 73 / 125/EEC and No 73 /
 provides for a review of the said programmes ;                      175/EEC shall be replaced by the following, with
                                                                     effect from 1 April 1975 :
 Whereas it therefore seems appropriate to review                        'The programme defined in the Annex shall be
 these programmes,                                                       subject to review at the beginning of 1976 in
                                                                         accordance with the appropriate procedures.'
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                    Done at Brussels, 25 August 1975.
                           Article 1                                                                       For the Council
 The Annexes to Decisions No 73/125/EEC and No                                                              The President
73/175 /EEC shall, with effect from 1 April 1975, be                                                         M. RUMOR
( 1 ) OJ No C 95 , 28 . 4. 1975 , p. 7.
(2) OJ No L 153 , 9. 6. 1973 , p. 9r
(3) OJ No L 189, 11 . 7/ 1973, p. 32.                               (4) OJ No L 116, 1 . 5 . 1973 , p. 1 .
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                                                          ANNEX
                                                    DIRECT ACTIONS
                                              NON-NUCLEAR PROJECTS
                                    STANDARDS AND REFERENCE SUBSTANCES
                                        ( CERTIFIED REFERENCE SUBSTANCES)
            Joint programme
            A maximum of 6-200 million units of account shall be allocated to this objective, the
            number of staff being fixed at 71 (including a programme staff of 39).
            The objective shall include :
            — technical assistance to the project secretariat: inquiry into the needs of and situation in
                the Community in this field, dissemination of information and processing of data,
            — experimental work (chemical analysis, physical and technological properties of reference
                substances) in laboratories participating in the project,
            — technical assistance to the Commission (elimination of technical obstacles, Common
                Customs Tariff, qtc.),
            — technical assistance for Community projects connected with the elimination of technical
                barriers and the administration of the Common Customs Tariff,
            — experimental work on reference substances and methods (physical and technological
                properties).
            The corresponding experimental work will be carried out, for the time being, by the Ispra
            Establishment.