CELEX: 51980PC0058
Language: en
Date: 1980-02-18
Title: Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation on support for projects of Community interest in transport infrastructure

No C 89/4                         Official Journal of the European Communities                           10. 4. 80
                                                            II
                                                    (Preparatory Acts)
                                              COMMISSION
          Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation on support for projects of
                                Community interest in transport infrastructure (')
          (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article
                                     149 of the EEC Treaty on 4 March 1980)
          Recitals:                   — to be inserted between the first and second recitals:
                                            'whereas it should be possible to extend such measures in
                                            certain circumstances to projects which are located on the
                                            territory of non-member States and which have a
                                            considerable importance for the Community in particular
                                            with regard to traffic between Member States.'
                                      — the former second recital to be amended to read:
                                            "... are not financed by individual States acting alone.'
                                      — the former third recital to be amended to read:
                                            'Whereas it is essentially the responsibility of the States
                                            concerned to finance . . . '
          Article 1:                        unchanged
          Article 1 (a) (new):              'The Community, under the conditions laid down in the
                                            following Articles, may grant its financial support for the
                                            execution of transport infrastructure projects which are
                                            located on the territory of a non-member country and
                                            which have a considerable importance for the Community
                                            with regard to traffic between Member States.'
          Articles 2 and 3:                 unchanged
          Article 4, first                  'The request for financial support shall be forwarded to the
          paragraph:                        Commission by the State or States on whose territory the
                                            project is to be carried out.'
          Article 4, last                   'The Commission may ask the £tates concerned for any
          paragraph:                        additional information which it may consider necessary for
                                            assessing the project.'
          (') OJ No C 207, 2. 9. 1976, p.- 9.
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               Article 5:                     unchaged
               Article 6:                     the first sentence to be amended to read:
                                               'The party or parties responsible for carrying out a project
                                               receiving Community financial support in accordance with
                                              Article 1 of this Regulation shall forward . .
               Article 6:                      add a third paragraph:
                                               'In the circumstances defined in Article 1 (a) the provisions
                                               in the first and second paragraphs of this Article shall be
                                               incorporated in an Agreement between the Commission and
                                               the party or parties responsible for carrying out the project.'
               Articles 7 and 8:               unchanged.
                Amended proposal for a Council Directive amending for the seventh time Directive
                73/241/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to cocoa
                               and chocolate products intended for human consumption (')
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 March 1980)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas the Council may decide to transfer such
COMMUNITIES,                                                       substances to Annex I to Directive 73/241/EEC, i.e.
                                                                   to authorize their general use throughout the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       Community;
European Economic Community, and in particular
Article 100 thereof,                                               Whereas this option should be used in respect of
                                                                   ammonium phosphatides (ammonium salts of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 phosphatide acids); whereas use of such substances
                                                                   offers technological advantages since they do not
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                  alter the organoleptic properties of the cocoa and
                                                                   chocolate products to which they are added;
liament,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                   Whereas the authorization to use ammonium
Social Committee,                                                  phosphatides does not pose any danger to public
                                                                   health since, pursuant to the rule set out in
Whereas, pursuant to paragraph 2 (b) (iii) of Annex II             Annex I (6) concerning lecithins, this authorization is
to Council Directive 73/241/EEC ( 2 ), as last                     accompanied by the stipulation of a total phosphatide
amended by Directive 78/842/EEC ( 3 ), Member                      level which must not be exceeded in the finished
States can retain until 20 June 1979 any national                  product and which is fixed by taking into account the
provisions authorizing the use in cocoa and chocolate              natural phosphatide content of cocoa beans;
products of the emulsifiers listed in paragraph
2 (a) (iii) of that Annex;                                         Whereas the specific purity criteria relating to
                                                                   lecithins were defined in Council Directive
                                                                   78/664/EEC of 25 July 1978 laying down specific
                                                                   purity criteria for anti-oxidants which may be used in
                                                                   foodstuffs intended for human consumption (');
(•) OJ No C 121, 15. 5. 1979, p. 7.
(2) OJ No L 228, 16. 8. 1973, p. 23.
(5) OJ No L 291, 17. 10. 1978, p. 15.                              O OJ No L 223, 14. 8. 1978, p. 30.