Bulletin of the European Communities. No 1 1984 Volume 17

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Bulletin
OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
Commission
No 1 1984
Volume 17 The Bulletin of the European Communities reports on the activities of
the Commission and the other Community institutions. It is edited by the
Secretariat-General of the Commission (rue de la Loi 200, B-1049
Brussels) and published eleven times a year (one issue covers July and
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OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
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No1
1984
Volume 17 Sent to press in March 1984 contents
SPECIAL
PART ONE FEATURES
1. Agricultural prices and related measures for 1984/85: Com­
7 mission proposals
2. Community policy to combat the steel crisis 11
3. Technological change and social adjustment 13
ACTIVITIES
PART TWO IN JANUARY 1984
Building the Community 16
16 — Economic and monetary policy
— Internal market and industrial affairs 16
19 — Industrial innovation and the information market
— Customs union 21
21 — Competition
23 — Financial institutions and taxation
— Employment, education and social policy 24
26 — Regional policy
27 — Environment and consumers
— Agriculture 29
36 — Fisheries
— Transport 40
— Energy 41
— Nuclear safety 41
— Research and development 41
WBUUMRSBIBQHnenQH 2. Enlargement and external relations 44
—t and bilateral relations with applicant
countries 4
— Commercial policy5
— Relations with industrialized countries7
—s with other countries and regions 48
• Mediterraneans
• Latin America9
— Development 50
— International organizations and conferences 53
— Diplomatic relations4
3. Financing Community activities
4. Institutional and political matters5
— European political cooperation
— European policy and relations between the institutions 5
— Institutions and organs of the Communities 57
• Parliament
• Council 6
• Commission
• Court of Justice6
•t of Auditors 77
• Economic and Social Committee 7
• ECSC Consultativee9
• European Investment Bank
ARI THREE DOCUMENTATION
1. ECU 88
2. Additional references in the Official Journal 89
3. Infringement procedures
4. Statement on the programme of the French Presidency 91
5. List of abbreviations commonly used in the Bulletin 100
Publications of the European Communities ΗΒΗ
Supplements 1984
*1 /84 Unfair terms in contracts concluded with consumers
In preparation. PART ONE
SPECIALFEATURES Standardized abbreviations for the designation of certain monetary units in the different languages of
the Community:
ECU = European currency unit
BFR = Belgische frank / Franc beige
DKR = Dansk krone
DM = Deutsche Mark
DR = Greek drachma
FF = Franc français
HFL = Nederlandse gulden (Hollandse florijn)
IRL = Irish pound / punt
LFR = Franc luxembourgeois
LIT = Lira italiana
UKL = Pound sterling
USD = United States dollar 1. Agricultural prices and related measures
for 1984/85: Commission proposals
1.1.1 On 17 January then sent proposed in July 1983 they offer a coherent plan
for its rationalization. to the Council its proposals on prices and
certain related measures for 1984/85.! So they are not a catalogue of economy measures
from which to pick and choose: they are a policy
The Commission's intention was to place package designed to take more account of the
movement of supply and demand, to mesh Com­before the Council, at the earliest possible
munity agriculture more into the whole chain of
date, a coherent package of measures and
economy activity up-line and down-line from it,
price proposals for the coming marketing
and to make for more coherence between the
year and to round off the overall plan for the functioning of the CAP on the inside and the
rationalization of the common agricultural Community's trade in farm products on the out­
side.' policy which it outlined in the communica­
tion of 28 July 19832 and followed up with a When Mr Dalsager presented the proposals
number of specific proposals for legislation. to the press he stressed the need—as had
Mr Thorn at the Council meeting—for the
When presenting its price proposals to the whole package to be adopted rapidly:
Council, the Commission emphasized that 'The European Community is passing through a
they were essentially and indissolubly lin­ period when choices have to be made. They have
ked to the proposals presented earlier in been delayed too long. If they are put off beyond
March this year, I and my colleagues in the Com­implementation of its July 1983 report. The
mission cannot answer for the results which may Commission considers not only that the
follow. That is why we call on the Council to Council should take an overall decision on
decide not later than 31 March.
the full range of proposals presented in this
We in the Commission have made our choice: it
context but also that it would be unthinka­
is for a sound and strong agriculture, based on
ble for such a decision to omit certain essen­ an improved CAP, with a rational method for
tial measures for the reform of the CAP supporting markets and incomes.'
which are already before the Council. In
1.1.3. In drawing up its price proposals
that event the Commission, acting in the
for 1984/85, the Commission followed very
interest of the Community as a whole,
closely the guidelines laid down in its com­
would have to withdraw its price proposals
munication of July 1983, as regards both
and replace them by others which would be
price levels and the price 'hierarchy' be­
even more rigorous.
tween the various products. It also had to
take account of the fact that, since that date,
1.1.2. In transmitting the Commission the trends on agricultural markets both in­
proposals to the Council, Mr Thorn and side and outside the Community had led to
Mr Dalsager made the point that they were a deterioration rather than an improvement
part of the Commission's general plan to in the situation. It could even be said that
make European agriculture more competi­ never in the history of the common agricul­
tive: tural policy had the management had to
face such serious difficulties, these being
'The Commission put forward proposals for re­
attributable to three main factors acting in form in 1980, which were futher spelt out in 1981
concert: and restated in July 1983 after the Stuttgart Euro­
pean Council session: thus for more than three
(i) firstly, technical progress and the sup­
years the Commission has been urging the need
port provided by the common agricultural for this reform to enable European agriculture to
policy have enabled agricultural production continue to enjoy the security the CAP affords it,
which has so far to a great extent shielded it from to continue to expand rapidly in several
the effects of the world recession.
The price proposals the Commission has sent the 1 COM(84) 20 final.
Council are in no way a substitute for reform of the 2 Supplement 4/83 — Bull. EC; Bull. CE 7/8-1983, points
CAP: together with the measures the Commission I.I.I ro 1.1.12.
Bull. EC 1-1984 Farm price proposals
positive and negative, should be substanti­sectors, including those with the largest sur­
ally dismantled, with a view to restoring a pluses;
single market as soon as possible.
(ii) secondly, internal consumption of sev­
eral agricultural products is showing little
or no increase; The Commission's proposals
for individual products1 (iii) thirdly, the present situation and the
medium-term outlook on the world market
Í.Í.5. For cereals, with the exception of
are not encouraging, since the capacity to
durum wheat, the Commission takes the
pay for agricultural products falls far short
view that a cautious policy on prices must
of the export requirements of the main pro­
now give way to a restrictive one, in view of
ducer countries. This has led to keener com­
the growing imbalance between production
petition on external markets.
and outlets, both on the internal and on the
world markets, and the consequent build­A further difficulty arises from the particu­
up of stocks. At the same time, the Commis­larly delicate budget situation, which must
sion is still endeavouring to narrow down not be aggravate