CELEX: 51987PC0443
Language: en
Date: 1987-10-05
Title: PROPOSED COUNCIL REGULATION ADOPTING A PLAN TO STIMULATE THE INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND INTERCHANGE NEEDED BY EUROPEAN RESEARCH SCIENTISTS 1988-1992 ( SCIENCE )

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               Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) adopting a plan to stimulate the international
                 cooperation and interchange needed by European research scientists 1988 to 1992 (Science)
                                                      COM(87)443fmal/2
                                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 6 October 1987)
                                                          (88/C 14/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            natural sciences). However, in choosing activities to be
                                                                    supported, particular attention shall be given to the areas
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               set out in the Annex in view of their special interest.
Economic Community, and in particular Article 130Q
(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                                              Article 3
In cooperation with the European Parliament,                        The funds estimated to be necessary for the execution of
                                                                    the stimulation plan amount to 167 million ECU,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                    including expenditure on a staff of 18.
Social Committee,
Whereas Article 130K of the Treaty provides that
implementation of the Framework Programme be carried
out by means of specific programmes developed within                                          Article 4
each activity; whereas the Council by its Decision of . . .         The Commission shall undertake the implementation of
adopting the multiannual Framework Programme 1987                   the stimulation plan by means of bursaries, research
to 1991 approved the activity aimed at bringing about a             allocations, grants for high-level courses, contracts
researchers' Europe;                                                encouraging the twinning of laboratories and operations
                                                                    contracts. It shall be assisted by the Committee for the
Whereas the Scientific and Technical                Research        European Development of Science and Technology
Committee (CREST) has been consulted on the                         (Codest), set up pursuant to Commission Decision
following measures,                                                 82/835/EEC (»), and by consultants.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                           Article 1                                                          Article 5
A plan to stimulate the international cooperation and               The Commission shall negotiate and conclude the
interchange needed by European research scientists,                 contracts needed to implement the selected projects. To
hereinafter referred to as the 'stimulation plan', as set           this end it shall draw up contracts showing the rights and
out in the Annex, is hereby adopted for a five-year                 obligations of each party, particularly the methods of
period commencing on 1 January 1988.                                disseminating, protecting and exploiting the research
                                                                    results.and of making any reimbursement that may be
                                                                    necessary of the funding given.
                           Article 2
The stimulation plan consists of a range of activities
which have as their aim the establishment of a network
of scientific and technical cooperation and interchange at
European level, which will gradually be extended. It
covers all fields of science and technology (the exact and          (') OJ No L 350, 10, 12. 1982, p. 45.
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                               Article 6                                                              Article 7
In implementing the stimulation plan, the Commission is                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
hereby     authorized        to    negotiate   agreements       for        following its publication in the Official Journal of the
cooperation with third countries, in particular those                      European Communities.
involved in European cooperation in the field of
scientific and technical research (COST), and with inter-
national organizations with a view to associating them                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
wholly or partly with the plan.                                            directly applicable in all Member States.
                                                                  ANNEX     I
              Plan to stimulate the international scientific cooperation and interchange needed by European research
                                                          scientists (1988 to 1992)
              1. The stimulation plan takes the form of a range of measures to aid the training and mobility of
                  researchers, communication among scientists and the development of cooperation in the field of
                  research and development in the Community. These are therefore support measures for research
                  scientists, teams or research and development organizations to ensure the harmonious scientific and
                  technical development of the Community by facilitating:
                  — training through research and the recruitment of young research scientists in Community labora-
                       tories,
                  —r transfers of researchers (whether novice or experienced) from one Community country to another,
                  — the bringing together, on joint projects, of expertise which is geographically scattered in the
                       Community, in order to make it possible to undertake scientific and technical work for which it is
                       necessary to bring together complementary resources which exist in various Member States,
                  — the strengthening of communication and exchanges of information within the European scientific
                       and technical system.
              2. Measures to stimulate interchange and cooperation apply to all fields relevant to the exact and natural
                  sciences; the following will be given special attention:
                  — mathematics,
                  — physics,
                  — chemistry,
                  — life sciences,
                  — earth sciences and ocean sciences,
                  — scientific instrumentation,
                  — engineering sciences.
               3. In the fields in which support will be granted, multinational projects to benefit from the Community
                  support measures will be chosen on the basis of their quality, the extent to which they are multi-
                   disciplinary in content, their innovative aspects and their value in terms of breaking down barriers
                  between different forms of research and development.
               4. The stimulation plan will be implemented by making use of:
                  — multisectoral incentive measures: bursaries, research          grants, subsidies, laboratory twinnings,
                       operations contracts,
                  — sectoral incentive measures; bursaries research grants and subsidies financed in the framework of
                       each of the community research and development programmes following the agreement of the ap-
                       proriate Management and Coordination Committee (CGC).
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        5. The choice of stimulation incentive measures and the teams concerned will be made by the Commission
           which, with the help of the Committee for the European Development of Science and Technology
            (Codest), will make use of a peer review system. The Commission will see to it that there is consistency
           between the stimulation activity and programmed Community R & D activities.
        6. The Commission will at the same time undertake a series of consultations, surveys and seminars with the
            cooperation of Community scientific and technical circles in order to analyse and evaluate scientific and
            technical needs and opportunities, with the aim of providing more detail to the content of the stimu-
            lation plan.
           The Commission will cooperate closely with the national authorities to ensure consistency between these
            activities and national policies on research stimulation.
        7. In order to evaluate the scientific and/or technical quality of requests for support, as well as to analyse
            scientific and technical opportunities and needs or to assess projects which have been financed or the
            activity itself, the Commission may call upon expertise from outside its own staff.
                                                            ANNEX     II
                     Programme for stimulation of European cooperation and exchanges in economic science
        The objective is to help the Community's potential in the economic sciences to be fully exploited, and in
        particular attain the highest level of international competitivity. While the Community's human resources in
        economic science are very considerable, there is no doubt that presently the United States occupies a
        dominating position with several centres of excellence of international standing. Moreover, many leading
        economists in Western Europe see in these centres of excellence in North America the principal inter-
        national dimension to their professional activity, with intra-European links occupying a lesser role despite
        advantages of closer proximity, etc.
        The economics profession has recently been taking steps to establish first elements of professional organi-
        zation at European level, for example: foundation in the last few years of the European Economics
        Association, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Centre for European Policy Studies, and
        establishment between centres of excellence in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom of joint
        programmes for doctorates in economics. However, these initiatives are still at an early stage of
        development and in most cases even quite insecure financially. Some recent initiatives of the European
        Communities will or could also help widen the possibilities for helping the economic sciences, notably the
        Erasmus programme which aims at facilitating the mobility of students and teachers in higher education.
        These recent initiatives show that a programme to strengthen the economic sciences at the European level
        is likely to find an extremely positive response on the part of the profession. What is needed now is a
        critical mass of European-level activity in the economic sciences at the highest level of professional
        standing to persuade the younger and forthcoming generations of European economists to turn their
        interests more towards intra-European cooperation and research efforts; and for some of Europe's best
        young economists, now established in North American centres of excellence, to be persuaded to return.
        Some elements of the programme should have these people in mind.
        The programme would consist of the following actions:
        1. bourses for European doctorates, requiring part of the doctoral studies to be undertaken in a second
            country;
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                 2. bourses for post-doctoral research fellowships, to be offered to Community nationals from a different
                    country to that of the institution, or to Community nationals returning from non-European institutions;
                 3. grants for research projects or networks of European interest;
                 4. financial support for information networks, including data-banks and documentation.
                 The criteria that requests for bourses and research grants should meet would be the following:
                 (a) scientific excellence;
                 (b) the substance of the research should be of European-level interest;
                 (c) there should be a multi-national European aspect to the organization of the project (multi-national
                      participation, or activity outside country of nationality).
                 The economic sciences, like the natural sceinces, can profit greatly from the establishment of research
                 networks. Research institutions specializing in the building of multiple networks have demonstrated their
                 value in the economic as well as natural sciences,, exploiting economies of scale in communication between
                 scientists. Such organizations should be eligible for support, but by no means exclusively.
                 The strength of some of the northern European countries outside the Community is very considerable in
                 the economic sciences. The programme should be open to requests by such countries to participate, on the
                 basis of financing schemes for which there are already precedents (through association agreements with the
                 individual countries) in the Community's framework programmes for research.
                 The programme would cost about six million ECU in total for the four years 1989 to 1992, starting at a
                 level of about one million ECU, rising to two million ECU. Preliminary activities in 1988 would be
                 financed under line 7302 of the budget. Definition of the programme and selection of projects would
                 benefit from the advice of a consultative committee of eminent economists.
                 Proposal for a Council Regulation ( E E C ) amending Regulation ( E E C ) N o 8 2 3 / 8 7 laying down
                                    special provisions relating to quality wines produced in specified regions
                                                                     COM(87)         642 final
                                      (Submitted   by the Commission            to the Council     on 17 December     1987)
                                                                         ( 8 8 / C 14/06)
T H E COUNCIL OF T H E EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                           emphasize the horizontal nature of the said Regulation,
                                                                                       which applies to all categories of quality wine produced
                                                                                       in specified regions of the C o m m u n i t y , hereinafter called
H a v i n g regard to the T r e a t y establishing the E u r o p e a n                 'quality wines psr', but also, for the sake of a m o r e
E c o n o m i c C o m m u n i t y , and in particular Article 43                       methodical presentation of C o m m u n i t y wine legislation,
•thereof,                                                                              to remove from the Regulation the detailed technical
                                                                                       provisions which would be more appropriately included
                                                                                       in the special regulations dealing with these matters
H a v i n g regard to the proposal from the Commission,                                which already exist or which have yet to be a d o p t e d ;
                                                                                       whereas in this connection it should be stressed that the
                                                                                       provisions of that Regulation apply to all quality wines
H a v i n g regard to the opinion of the E u r o p e a n                 Par-          psr, including sparkling, semi-sparkling and liqueur
liament,                                                                               wines; whereas the detailed provisions, which apply only
                                                                                       to quality sparkling wines produced in specified regions,
                                                                                       should be transferred to Council Regulation (EEC) N o
H a v i n g regard to the opinion of the E c o n o m i c                 and           3 5 8 / 7 9 of 5 February 1979 on sparkling wines produced
Social C o m m i t t e e ,                                                             in the C o m m u n i t y as defined in point 15 of Annex I to
                                                                                       Regulation ( E E C ) N o 8 2 2 / 8 7 ( 2 ), as last amended by
                                                                                       Regulation ( E E C ) N o         / . .;
W h e r e a s experience gained from applying Council R e g u -
lation ( E E C ) N o 8 2 3 / 8 7 (') has shown the need to
(') OJ No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 59.                                                    (-') OJ No I. 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 13C.