ISSN 0378-3693 - liBRARY 0 Bulletin OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Commission No 2 1980 Volume 13 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, B-1 049 Brussels) and published eleven times a year (one issu~_covers July and August) in the official Community languages and Spanish. Reproduction is _authorized provided the source is acknowledged. The following reference 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.g. communications to the Council, programmes, reports and proposals). The Supplements do not appear in Spanish. Printed in Belgium BULLETIN OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES European Coal and Steel Community European Economic Community European Atomic Energy· Community Commission of the European Communities Secretariat-General Brussels No 2 1980 Sent to press in March 1980. Volume 13 contents SPECIAL PART ONE FEATURES 1 0 The Commission programme for 1980 - Address by Mr Roy Jenkins, President of the Commission, to Parliament on 12 February 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 20 EEC-Yugoslavia cooperation agreement 16 30 Reactivation of the association with Turkey 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 4o Agricultural prices for 198011981: Commission's proposals 22 So 1980 budget: new Commission proposal 29 ACTIVITIES PART TWO IN FEBRUARY 1980 1 0 Building the Community 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 - Economic and monetary policy 34 - Internal market and industrial affairs 35 - Customs union 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 - Competition 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 - Financial institutions and taxation 41 - Employment and social policy 44 - Regional policy 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 - Environment and consumers 46 - Agriculture 48 - Fisheries 53 - Transport 55 -Energy 55 - Research and development, science and education 57 - Scientific and technical information and information management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60 2. Enlargement and external relations . 61 - Enlargement and bilateral relations with applicant countries 61 - Commercial policy . 62 - Development . 65 - International organizations and conferences 69 - Industrialized countries 72 - Mediterranean countries 73 - Developing countries 74 - State-trading countries 77 - Diplomatic relations 77 - Political cooperation . 78 3. Institutional and political matters 79 - Institutional developments and European policy 79 - Institutions and organs of the Communities 80 • Parliament 80 • Council . 87 • Commission . 89 • Court of Justice 91 • Court of Auditors 95 • Economic and Social Committee 95 • European Investment Bank 97 - Financing Community activities 102 PART THREE DOCUMENTATION 1 . Units of account 106 2. Additional references in the Official Journal 109 5. Infringement procedures 111 Publications of the European Communities Supplements 1979 1/79 European Union - Annual reports for 1978 2/79 Accession of the Communities to the European Convention on Human Rights - Commission memorandum 3/79 Forestry policy in the European Community 4/79 Second Community programme for consumers 5/79 Air Transport: A Community approach - Memorandum of the Commission · 6/79 Employee participation in asset formation - Memorandum of the Commission 7/79 Shipbuilding- State of the industry and crisis measures 8/79 A transport network for Europe - Outline of a policy 9/79 European Union - Annual reports for 1979 ~b\~U ©~~ SPECIAL FEATURES Standardized abbreviations for the designation of certain monetary units In the different languages of the Community: BFR Belgische frank/Franc beige LFR Franc luxembourgeois DKR Dansk krone FF Franc franc;ais OM Deutsche Mark LIT Lira Italians HFL Nederlandse gulden (Hollandse florljn) UKL Pound sterling IRL Irish pound USD United States dollar 1. The Commission programme for 1980 Commi~sion programme for 1980 Address by Mr Roy Jenkins, Greece, and have begun the process of wel­ coming her into the Community. This acces­ President of the Commission, sion-and the other two which are likely to to Parliament on 12 Febr·uary follow-emphasizes the underlying vitality of the Community and the attraction which it 1.1.1. It is a considerable responsibility to holds for the reborn democracies of Europe. present the Commission's programme for the Third, we concluded, after many years of dif­ first time to this new Parliament, but it is a ficult and largely unglamorous negotiation, responsibility which my colleagues and I wel­ the Tokyo Round. This MTN achievement come at the beginning of this the fourth and offfers us the reasonable prospect for a last year of our mandate. The introduction of further development of the free-world trading the Commission's programme for 1980 fits sytem on mutually beneficial lines, despite the naturally into the proceedings of a well­ new and more difficult circumstances in the established and working Parliament. I look economic and employment fields which face forward to the debate which will follow on us. Fourth, we reached agreement at Lome on Thursday on ·the main lines of that prog­ a renewed convention enhancing and streng­ ramme. thening our relationship with the now 58 Today I intend to concentrate on what we see ACP countries. Fifth, at the Strasbourg Euro­ as the central issues confronting us. I do not pean Council last summer and subsequently intend to say something about everything or at the Economic Summit in Tokyo we led the attempt a complete Cook's tour of the hori­ way towards establishing a new apparatus of zons of the Community. You must therefore cooperation in the energy field. Above all, we forgive me if some things are left out. This saw this Parliament elected-in my view does not mean that we do not attach import­ perhaps the biggest harbinger of hope for the ance to it. It merely means, in my view, that a future-bringing a new and powerful demo­ speech is not a catalogue, and a catalogue is cratic dimension to our Community affairs. not a speech. I make these points to this House because the essential vitality of the Community can some­ 1979 and its achievements times be too obscured by the dust of pressing short-term problems and difficulties. Within 1.1.2. First it would be right to look back the framework of our common institutions briefly at what the Community achieved in there remains a deep reserve of invention, 1979. Although 1979 ended with its difficul­ imagination and sustained cohesion which ties it should in many ways be seen ·as a year can be brought to bear in the common inter­ of major Community advance. We saw sub­ ests of Europe. It is well to remember what stantial success on a number of major fronts. we have already achieved together when we First, we put in place the European Monetary contemplate the problems that we have to System after less than a year of discussion, resolve together in the future. and have seen it establish itself gradually and unspectacularly. We will need to do more to strengthen and support the EMS but its crea­ The crisis ahead tion is, in my view, an important landmark in our development. Second, we have concluded 1.1.3. Looking ahead, we face no less than the accord with a new European partner, the break-up of the established economic and Bull. EC 2-1980 7 Commission programme for 1980 Commission programme for 1980 social order on which post-war Europe was The essential question for 1980 and the years built. The warning bells have been sounding ahead is therefore how do we adapt our soci­ for a decade. Bit by bit we have seen the col­ ety to the new economic realities ? lapse of that long period of monetary stabil­ ity founded on the Bretton Woods agree­ ments; that process began even before the rise Energy in oil prices in 1973. Energy price increases may not have been the only cause of our pre­ sent misfortunes but they have been the main 1.1.4. I turn first to the question of energy, catalyst. We have built our industrial society which was a central issue for the meeting of on the consumption of fossil fuels, in particu­ the European Council in Strasbourg last sum­ lar oil, and it is now certain that if we do not mer, and subsequently for the Economic change our ways while there is still Summit in Tokyo. It was, let us recall, the time-and 1980 could be almost the last first time the Community had fixed and opportunity-our society will risk disloca­ defended a global target figure for our oil tion and eventual collapse. consumption and imports. Yet since then progress has faltered. You will be debating Most of the economic indicators are bad. this matter in many of its aspects tomorrow Whereas in 1979 growth of the European but I nevertheless believe it is right to economy amounted to about 3.3%, in 198Q emphasize the main points now. it could fall substantially below even the 2% which we were forecasting in a somewhat In the short term, energy conservation must dispirited fashion at the end of last year. be the cornerstone of our policy since it Unemployment rates, which in the early forms the quickest and the cheapest way of 1970s averaged under 3% for the Commun­ contributing to a restoration of the balance ity as a whole, rose to 5.6% in 1979 and are between supply and demand.