CELEX: 51988PC0167
Language: en
Date: 1988-03-22
Title: REVISED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION ON A COMMUNITY PROGRAMME IN THE FIELD OF ROAD TRANSPORT INFORMATICS DRIVE ( DEDICATED ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE SAFETY IN EUROPE )

No C 146/18                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                     3. 6. 88
              Amended proposal for a Council Decision on a Community programme in the field of road
              transport informatics — DRIVE (Dedicated road infrastructure for vehicle safety in Europe) (*)
                                                       COM(88) 167 final
               (Submitted by the Commission pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty on
                                                         24 March 1988)
                                                         (88/C 146/10)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Whereas the Council in its resolution of 19 December
                                                                   1984 on road safety invited the Commission to submit
                                                                   proposals (5);
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community and in particular 130Q (2)
thereof,                                                           Whereas the Single European Act provides a new
                                                                  political and legal base for the development of a
                                                                   scientific and technological strategy with particular
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 importance being given to the goal of promoting
                                                                   industrial competitiveness;
In cooperation with the European Parliament,
                                                                  Whereas, by Decision 87/516/Euratom/EEC (6), the
                                                                   Council      adopted    a framework        programme        of
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                   Community activities in the field of research and techno-
Social Committee,                                                  logical development (1987 to 1991) providing for
                                                                  research to be undertaken in the field of the application
                                                                  of information technology, telecommunications and
Whereas the Community has as its task, by establishing a          broadcasting to meet common social needs and in
common market and progressively approximating the                 particular road transport;
economic policies of Member States, inter alia to
promote throughout the Community a hormonious
development of economic activity and closer relations             Whereas the Council has recognized the importance of
between the Member States belonging to it;                        standardization in the field of information technology
                                                                   and telecommunications ( 7 ); whereas cooperation in pre-
                                                                  normative and pre-competitive R & D towards the devel-
Whereas the Heads of State and Government                          opment of standards can make a major contribution,
emphasized the importance of road transport efficiency,           notably by facilitating the evolution towards future more
safety and environmental compatibility as a major factor          efficient and safer road transport at regional and local
for economic growth and social development within the             levels;
framework laid down in the Treaty of Rome,
                                                                  Whereas the Commission intends also to propose
Whereas the European Parliament, in its assessment of              Community programmes in the area of the application of
the situation and development of road transport, stressed         information technologies and telecommunications in
its role for the future political, social and economic            other transport sectors such as rail, sea and air transport;
development of the Community and made particular
reference to the need to develop electronic road safety
aids (2) and by its adoption (3) of the report (4) of its
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and                    Whereas the Economic and Social Committee made
Industrial Policy on the European Community Auto-                 particular reference to electronic traffic aids on major
                                                                  roads (8) and to the implementation of a Community
mobile Industry demonstrated the European dimension
                                                                  programme on road safety ( 9 );
of this industry;
(») OJ No C 355, 31. 12. 1987, p. 1.                              (*) OJ No C 341, 21. 12. 1984, p. 1.
(2) Resolution of the European Parliament on the adoption of a     (') OJ No L 302, 24. 10. 1987, p. 1.
    programme of Community measures to promote road safety,       O Council Decision of 22 December 1986, OJ No L 36,
    OJ No C 104, 27. 4. 1984, p. 38.                                   7. 2. 1987, p. 31.
(') Resolution of the European Parliament on 23 January 1987.      (8) Opinion of 27 and 28 April 1977, OJ No C 126, 28. 5. 1977,
(4) Document A 2-171/86 of 8 December 1986, rapporteur M.              p. 20.
    Peter Beazley.                                                 O Opinion of 24 May 1984, OJ No C 206, 6. 8. 1984, p. 60.
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Whereas the Commission in its proposal for a medium-             improvements of the transport and traffic management
term transport infrastructure programme (') made                 infrastructure developments in the Community;
specific reference to the importance of stimulating tech-
nological    developments     for   improving     transport
performance and likely to be of value to exports and to          Whereas the development of the road transport infra-
the enlargement of the internal market for new tech-             structure technology and services offers a wide range of
nologies for European industry which will offer the
                                                                 opportunities for small and medium-sized companies in
security of future increases in productivity and competi-
                                                                 the manufacture of equipment and in the provision of
tiveness;
                                                                 specialized services within the Community;
Whereas the Council Decision of 28 September 1987                Whereas it is appropriate for projects carried out in the
concerning the Framework Programme for Community                 context of Eureka and specific activities undertaken
activities in the field of R & T & D provides that a             within the Framework Programme to complement and
particular aim of Community research shall be to                 support each other when pre-competitive research which
strengthen the scientific and technological basis of             will strengthen European technology is involved;
European industry especially in strategic areas of high
technology and to encourage it to become more
competitive at international level and whereas the same          Whereas the Commission has declared at the second
Decision further provides that Community action is               Eureka Ministerial Meeting at London (June 1986) its
justified where research contributes inter alia to the           wish to support projects relating to road safety and navi-
strengthening of the economic and social cohesion of the         gation;
Community and the promotion of its overall harmonious
development, while being consistent with the pursuit of
scientific and technical quality; whereas it is intended
that the DRIVE programme should contribute to the                Whereas the constitution or consolidation of a specifi-
achievement of these objectives;                                 cally European industrial potential in the technologies
                                                                 concerned is an urgent necessity; whereas its bene-
                                                                 ficiaries must be industry,          network/broadcasting
                                                                 operators,     research    establishments,   undertakings,
Whereas with the emergence of mobile communication               including small and medium-sized enterprises and other
services and the progressive introduction of computing in        bodies established in the Community which are best
automobiles, the conditions for major improvements for           suited to attain these objectives;
traffic management, reduction of environmental impact
of road transport and road safety are emerging;
                                                                 Whereas exploratory investigations at Community level
                                                                 have confirmed the requests of participants of Eureka to
                                                                 take advantage of Community cooperation in this field;
Whereas developments in road transport efficiency and
safety will benefit the international competitiveness of
the European economies in general and of industries in
particular;                                                      Whereas the definition phase of Prometheus (Eureka)
                                                                 has established the reliance of those parties to that
                                                                 cooperation agreement on the Community for definition
                                                                 of pre-normative and pre-competitive work relating to
Whereas advances in road transport efficiency and safety         road infrastructure systems and further pre-competitive
will contribute to resolving the problem of intolerable          research by the Community in shared cost programmes;
social and other consequences of road accidents;
                                                                 Whereas it is necessary that enterprises in the
Whereas the concerted efforts in this domain will                Community not taking part in the DRrVE programme
contribute to the creation of the internal market and            or in related Eureka programmes shall be capable of
prevent the formation of new internal frontiers to road          benefitting from the results of DRIVE projects as will
safety;                                                          companies participating only in related Eureka projects;
                                                                 Whereas it is essential that any pre-competitive work in a
Whereas the development of common functional specifi-            project carried out in coordination with an Community
cations for equipment and services will strengthen               technology project for pre-competitive research shall
cohesion and permit the less developed regions to benefit        adhere to the principles for Community shared cost
fully from the efforts of Member States leading to the           projects, especially with regard to the cross-frontier
                                                                 cooperation and inclusion of small and medium-sized
(') COM(86) 340 final, June 1986.                                enterprises;
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Whereas it is in the Community's interest to consolidate             technology exploration and the investigation of the non-
 the scientific and financial basis of European research by          technological factors as required for the objective of
 means of the involvement to a greater extent of                     concerting European efforts in improving road transport
participants from European third countries in certain                efficiency, road safety and reduction of environmental
 Community programmes and particularly in programmes                 impact. The work includes the following parts:
 involving cooperation in research and development of
road transport technology;                                             I. RTI technologies,
                                                                      II. Evaluation of strategic options,
Whereas the DRIVE programme will benefit from the
                                                                     III. Specifications,    protocols    and     standardization
results of Esprit and RACE as well as the on-going
                                                                           proposals.
efforts in standardization;
                                                                    The programme summary and objectives are set out in
                                                                    more detail in Annex II.
Whereas the implementation of concerted actions in the
COST framework is an essential element to complement
industrially-oriented R & D projects;                                                          Article 3
                                                                     1. Projects relating to the programme shall be
                                                                    executed by means of shared cost contracts. Contractors
Whereas the Scientific and Technical Research                       shall be expected to bear a substantial proportion of the
Committee (CREST) has expressed its opinion,                        costs, which should normally be at least 50 % of the
                                                                    total expenditure.
                                                                    Alternatively, in respect of universities and research
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:                                          institutes carrying out projects or actions, the
                                                                    Community may bear up to 100 % of the additional
                                                                    expenditure involved.
                           Article 1                                2. The proposals for projects shall, as a rule, be
1. A Community programme in the field of road                       submitted in reply to an open invitation to tender and
transport informatics, called DRIVE, is adopted for an              involve the participation of at least two independent
initial period of 30 months commencing 1 June 1988.                 partners not all established in the same Member State. At
                                                                    least one of the partners shall be an industrial under-
                                                                    taking. The invitation to tender shall be published in the
                                                                     Official Journal of the European Communities.
2. The programme is designed, in concertation with
public and private actions in the field of road transport           3. In exceptional cases concerning projects indis-
informatics undertaken at national and international                pensable for implementing key requirements of the
level, to promote the competitiveness of the                        workplan:
Community's industries, operators and service providers
in order to make available to the final users, at minimum           — where a proposal would involve
cost and with minimum delay, the improvements in road
transport efficiency and safety as well as minimizing the                  (i) unreasonable burden on the participants,
environmental impact of road transport, thereby contri-                        particularly small and medium-sized enterprises
buting to social as well as economic objectives.                               and research establishments;
                                                                          (ii) only one independent partner;
                                                                         (iii) only independent partners established in the
3. The programme includes Community activity                                   same Member State,
relevant to the Eureka actions (') in this field with
respect to standardization and common functional speci-                  or
fications relating to the development of advanced infra-
structure systems.                                                  — where an open tendering procedure would be unjus-
                                                                         tified on grounds of cost or efficiency,
                                                                         or
                           Article 2
                                                                    — where the amount of Community's contribution to
The programme, as set out in more detail in Annex I,                     the cost does not exceed 1 million ECU,
shall consist of the development of a common conceptual
framework for cooperation, pre-normative work and                   it may be decided, in accordance with the procedures
                                                                    laid down in Article 8, to depart from the general
(') In particular Prometheus, Europolis and Carminat.               provisions set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article.
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4.    The contracts for all parts of the action programme          — the evaluation of work undertaken in the execution
shall be concluded with network operators, research                    of the programme by appropriate organizations,
establishments, universities, undertakings, including small            groups and other bodies,
and medium-sized enterprises, and other bodies estab-
lished in the Community.                                           — the assessment of the proposed projects for the
                                                                       implementation and the estimated amount of the
                                                                       Community financial contribution for a project when
                           Article 4                                   this contribution is in excess of 2,5 million ECU,
Where Framework Agreements for scientific and
technical      cooperation      between     non-Community          — the participation in any project by European organiz-
European countries and the European Community have                     ations and enterprises not established in the
been concluded, organizations and enterprises estab-                   Community as provided for in Article 4.
lished in these countries may, in accordance with the
procedures laid down in Article 8, become partners to a            5.    The Commission may consult the Committee
project undertaken within this programme.                          referred to in Article 7 on any matter falling within the
                                                                   scope of this Decision.
                           Article 5
                                                                                             Article 7
 1.    The funds estimated as necessary for the
Community contribution to the execution of the                     The Commission shall be assisted in the performance of
programme amount to payment of 60 million ECU over                 its tasks by a committee, hereinafter referred to as 'the
the period adopted for the Framework Programme,                    Committee'. The Committee, consisting of two represen-
including expenditure on staff (11 A, 3 B, 8 C temporary           tatives of each Member State, shall be set up by the
officials).                                                        Commission on the basis of nominations by the Member
                                                                   States.
The total amount of appropriations shall be calculated
definitively on the basis of the appropriations allocated          Members of the Committee may be assisted by experts or
annually by the Budgetary Authority in the light of                advisors depending on the nature of the issues under
actual requirements.                                               consideration.
2.     The indicative allocation of these funds is set out in      The Committee shall be chaired by a Commission
Annex I.                                                           representative.
                                                                   The proceedings of the Committee shall be confidential.
                           Article 6                               The Committee shall adopt its own rules of procedure.
                                                                   The secretarial services shall be provided by the
 1.    The Commission shall ensure that the programme              Commission.
 is properly performed and establish the appropriate
 implementation measures.
                                                                                             Article 8
 2.    The Commission shall ensure that procedures are              1.    Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to
 set up to allow for appropriate cooperation with COST             be followed, the chairman shall refer the matter to the
 activities related to the areas of research covered by the         Committee, either on his own initiative or at the request
 programme, by ensuring regular exchanges of infor-                 of one of its members.
 mation between the Committee referred to in Article 7
 and the relevant COST Management Committees.
                                                                    2.    Under this procedure, the representative of the
                                                                    Commission, who acts as chairman, refers the draft of
 3.    The Commission shall establish for each year and             the measures to be adopted to the Committee. The
 update as required a draft workplan defining the detailed          Committee delivers an opinion within a time limit which
 objectives, the type of projects and actions to be                 shall normally be one month and shall in no case exceed
 undertaken and the corresponding financial plans. The              two months. The opinion is delivered by the majority
 Commission shall keep the European Parliament                      specified in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty for decisions
 informed of the progress of the annual workplans.                  which the Council is required to adopt on a proposal
                                                                    from the Commission, the votes of the representatives of
 4.    The procedure laid down in Article 8 shall apply             the Member States being weighted as indicated in that
 to:                                                                Article. The chairman does not vote.
 — the establishment and updating of the annual                     3.    The Commission shall adopt measures which shall
     workplan referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article,           apply immediately. However, if these measures are not in
                                                                    accordance with the opinion of the Committee, they
 — any departure from the general conditions laid down              shall be communicated by the Commission to the
     in Article 3 (1) and (2),                                      Council forthwith. In that event:
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— the Commission may defer application of the                      this Decision and in conformity with the provisions of
     measures which it has decided for a period of not             Article 2 paragraph 2 of the Framework Programme.
     more than one month from the date of such
    communication,                                                                         Article 10
— the Council, acting by a qualified majority, may take            1.    With regard to the concertation activities provided
    a different decision within the time limit referred to         for in Article 1 (2), the Member States and the
    in the previous paragraph.                                     Commission shall exchange all appropriate information
                                                                   to which they have access and which they are free to
                          Article 9                                disclose concerning activities in the areas covered by this
                                                                   Decision, whether or not planned or carried out under
 1.    The result of the programme shall be reviewed by            their authority.
the Commission after 18 months. The Commission shall
report to the Council and the European Parliament on               2.    Information shall be exchanged according to a
the results of this review, (together with any proposals           procedure to be defined by the Commission after
for modification or prolongation of the programme                  consulting the Committee, and shall be treated as
which the Commission deems appropriate).                           confidential at the supplier's request.
2.     After the completion of the programme, the
                                                                                           Article 11
Commission shall send to Council and European
Parliament a report on the performance and results of             This Decision shall apply from 1 June 1988.
the programme.
                                                                                           Article 12
3.     The abovementioned reports will be carried out in
relation to the precise objectives set out in Annex II to         This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
                              Proposal for a Council Decision concerning budgetary discipline
                                                      COM(88) 257 final
                                      (Submitted by the Commission on 27 April 1988)
                                                        (88/C 146/11)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas rules on budgetary discipline as regards non-
                                                                  compulsory expenditure will be laid down in a joint
                                                                  declaration by Parliament, the Council and the
Having regard to the Treaties establishing the European
                                                                  Commission;
Communities, and in particular Articles 43 and 235
thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the European Council on 11, 12 and 13
                                                                  February agreed the principles of a guideline for the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                control of agricultural expenditure;
                                                                  Whereas the rate of progression of EAGGF Guarantee
Having regard      to   the   opinion   of   the   European
                                                                  Section expenditure must not exceed 74 % of the rate of
Parliament,
                                                                  increase in Community GNP, this rate corresponding to
                                                                  that of 80 % of maximum EAGGF financing of set-aside
Whereas the European Council has agreed that the                  is taken into consideration;
Community must submit the use of its own resources to
effective and legally binding discipline parallel to the          Whereas the European Council has also agreed to mech-
efforts being made by the Member States in connection             anisms for the systematic depreciation of existing and
with their own budgets;                                           future agricultural stocks so that the stock situation can
                                                                  be normalized by 1992;
Whereas the arrangements for budgetary discipline
                                                                  Whereas the stabilization mechanisms provided for in the
decided upon by the European Council at Fontainebleau
                                                                  provisions governing the common organization of
must be strengthened in the light of experience;
                                                                  markets should play a part in ensuring compliance with
                                                                  the agricultural guideline;
Whereas budgetary discipline must be applied to all the
Community's expenditure; whereas it must cover both               Whereas the European Council has also agreed that the
payment and commitment appropriations;                            level of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure may be