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Bulletln of the EUROPEAN COMMUNIT!ES rssN 0378.3693 Bulletln OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNIT!ES Commission \ No 3 1983 Volu rn,e 1 6 The Bulletin of the European Communities reports on the activities of the Commission and the other Community institutions. lt is edited by the Secretariat-General of the Commission (rue de la Loi 200, 8-1049 Brussels) and published eleven times a year (one issue covers July and August) in the official Community languages and Spanish. Reproduction is.authorized provided the source is acknowledged. The following relerence system is used: the first digit indicates the part number, the second digit the chapter number and the subsequent digit or digits the point number. Citations should therefore read as follows: Bull. EC 1-1979, point 1.1.3 or 2.2.36. Supplements to the Bulletin are published in a separate series at irregular intervals. They contain official Commission material (e.9. communications to the Council, programmes, reports and proposals). The Supplements do not appear in Spanish. Pdnted in Belgium Bulletin OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ECSC_EEC_EAEC Commission of the European Communities Secretariat-General Brussels No3 Sent to press in May 1988 1983 Volume'l 6 co nte nts PART ONE PEifIfl!' 1. Development policy: Commission guidelines 7 2. The currency realignment of 21 March 't2 3. lntegratsd Mediterranean programmes 13 4. Commission response to Greek memorandum 15 5. European Council in Brussels 18 PART TWO II.'J'IITi",'' 1. Building the Community 24 24 - Economic and monetary PolicY lnternal market and industrial atfairs 25 - 29 - lndustrial lnnovation and the information market Customs union 31 - 32 - Competition Financial institutions and taxation 35 - policy 37 - Employment, education and social Regional policY 39 - 41 - Environment and consumers Agriculture 49 - 50 - Fisheries - Transport 51 Energy 53 - 55 - Research and develoPment 2. Enlargement and external relations 60 - Enlargement and bilateral relations with applicant countries 60 - Commercial policy 61 - Relations with industrialized countries 62 - Relations with other countries and regions 6i, r Mediterranean cpuntries 63 r Countries of the Gulf and the Arabian peninsula 65 o Asian countries 65 r Latin-Americancountries 66 r State-trading countries 67 - Development 67 - lnternational organizations and conferences 71 - Diplomatic relations 73 3. Financing Community activities 74 4. lnstitutional and polilical matters 76 - European political cooperation 76 - European policy and relations between the institutions 76 - lnstitutions and organs of the Gommunilies 77 o Parliament 77 . Council 82 r Commission u e Court of Justice 85 o Economic and Social Gommittee 92 o ECSC Consultative Committee 93 o European lnvestment Bank 94 PART THREE DOCUMENTATION 1. ECU 98 2. Additional references in the Official Journal 99 3. lnfringement procedures 99 4. General features of the integrated Mediterranean programmes 100 Publications of the European Communilies Supplements 1982 1182 A new Community action programme on the promotion of equal opportunities for women, 1982-85 2182 Dratt of a convention on bankruptcy, winding-up, arrangements' compositions and similar proceedings gl82 The institutional system of the community-Restoring the balance 4t82 A CommunitY PolicY on tourism 5/8Z Memorandum on the Communities'development policy '6182 Stronger Community action in the cultural sec'tor 7BZ European Union-Annual reports for 1982 8182 Problems of enlargement-Taking stock and proposals 'lnpreparalion. \ PART @NE SPECIAL FEATURES \ of Standardized abbreviations tor tho designation ot certain rnonotary units in the ditlerent languages the cornmunity: ECU = European currancy unit BFB = B'elgische frank / Franc belge DKR = Dansk krono DM = Deutsche Mark DR : Greek drachma FF = Franc frangais HFL = Nededandse guldon (Hollandse floriin) IRL = lrish pound / punt LFR = Franc luxembourg€ois LIT = Lira italiana UKL = Pound sterling USD = Unitod Statos dollar 1. Development policy: Commission guidelines 1.1.1. The Commission sent two important means of underlining both the importance of communications policy on development to the political gesture and the fiith of all the Council on 24 and 29-Marchi the'first concerned in the durabiliry of the existing proposes guidelines for the negotiations- cooperation system. This basic ponvention, scheduled open to in Septemberlon a new which would lay down the ultimate aims, convention berween the EEC and 53 African, objectives and principles of cooperation in Caribbean (ACp) and Pacific counrries olus the fields of trade (iccess to t6e market), Angola and Mozambique (which have'de- finance and commodities, would have clared they are ready-to take part);l the implementation protocols which would be second establishes new guidelineJ for Com- renegotiable every five years. muniry food aid to facilitate its incorporation in an overall policy and^ adapt if to the present economic situation.z The Commission's proposals These communications are directly in line 1.1.4; The idea behind the Commission's with the guidelines adopted by the'Commis- proposals is to keep what has been attained in sion in its memorandum last Septembed and the previous Yaound6 and Lom6 Conventions represent their practical applicition in rwo while at the same time improving cooperation essential areas of Europiin development instruments and practice where neceisary to policy. suit the presenr situation of the ACP couniries and their international environment. As Mr Edgard Pisani pointed our, the main idea behind this reshiping of cooperation The Commission paper outlines the present policy is to give peasani faimers the central situation and suggests the objectives and role in ensuring the nutritional balance of ultimate aims on which agreemenr should be each country and each region. Mr Pisani also sought with the ACP Statei and which should referred to the need for-Europe to adopt a be included in the basic convenrion: to find generous- approach under the new policy, in ways of improving people's living conditions spite of the present recession. and making development more autonomous and self-sustained; to give priority to agricul- EEC-ACP cooperafion: tural developmenr and food self-sufficiency; the lmportance of to give mo.i support to regional cooperation the forthcomlng negotlailons and regional integration efforts made by the ACP countries; and to take more account of 1.1.2. The second Lom6 Convention, which the long-term consrraints and possibilities of came into force on 1 January 1981, is due to development (fight against desertification expire on 28 February 1983. For fEC-nCp and large-scale endemic diseases, scientific cooperation to continue beyond that date, research, etc.). negotiations for a new convention have to be In line with the guidelines set out in the opened in the second half of 1983. memorandum, the document then proposes On 29 March the Commission sent a the renewals, adjustments or improue-ents- communication to the Council containing which are needed in the main areas and guidelines to enable the Community to worf instrume,nts of cooperation: trade regulations out its approach ro rhe negotiations in good and trade promotion; principles, procedures tlme. 1.1.3. Instead of a convention that would I have_to be negotiated afresh every five years, The ACP countries include 22 of rhe 3l leasr- the Commission is proposing .onr.ntion of zdeveloped countries. indefinite " coM(83)14l final. duration, a genuine treaty between r EC_9-1982, points -Bull. 1.1.1 to l.l.1l; Supplement the Community and the RCp Stites, a 5182 as - Bull. EC. Bull. EC 3-1983 Development policy and instruments of financial cooPeration; 1.1.7. The negotiations will not be €asy' commodity measures; and cooPeration because it will te difficult, in the depths of institutions. recession, to think ahead into the distant future, to come to terms with the fact that for the countries of the Third'World development A political approach does not mean copying the industrialized countries and that food aid is not primarily a policy set out in 1.1.5. When presenting the way of disposing of surpluses; to get it across the Commission document' Mr Pisani said thal a million fuel-efficient stoves are worth that the Commission would like to see more than one monster dam; to explain to given a new dimen- EEC-ACP cooperation certain governments that the fault lies in their more than an sion, so that ii would be iust methodl or the priorities they have adopted; adaptation of the Present Lom6 Convention. it will be difficult to turn the welfare cases He urged that the first phase of negotiation into productive economies and foster their reach broad consensus should endeavour to growth step by step. on the objectives, ultimate aims and means of achieving cooperation. 1.1.8. However, the CommunitY must accept this challenge. In September 1981 it already started in developing The discussions oublished a plan to combat world hunger; a countries (OAU's Lagos Plan) and in the later ift. Commission presented its mem- ,."r Community (based on the Commission iMemorandum on the Community's develop- policy)1 indicate orandum Ln development ment policy', and it has adopted a communi- an agreement do that the elements of such cation- to the Council on 'Food aid for exist. development'. These three papers outline or extent the ideas to be 1.1.6. The negotiations will oPen in amplify to some enshrined in the convention. September in circumstances less encouraging than those of five years ago' The facts of international life have changed and East-West confrontation has come to replace North- Food aid for development South dialogue as the issue of central concern. The Second Development Decade has shown Chronological summary us, in retrospect, that aid has been inadeqlate 1979: or'inappropiiate, and that many Third World October .o.,.rtriis hive been unable to derive any real The European Parliament holds its first maior benefit from what they did get. The Poorest debate on world hunger.2 countries' debts are eating their substance aw^y and stand in the way of fresh Nouember 1981: inveitment.
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