Fourteenth general report on the activities of the European Communities in 1980

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Activities of the institutions and bodies

Sujets

• Annual report
• European integration
• Single market
• Bilateralism
• Customs union
• European Union law

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• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Commission of the European Communities
Fourteenth General Report
on the Activities of
the European Communities
in 1980
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• ■■•■«■■I This publication contains the General Report on the Activities of
the European Communities. The President's 1981 address and
annexed memorandum are being published separately. Commission of the European Communities
Fourteenth General Report
on the Activities of
the European Communities
in 1980
Brussels - Luxembourg This publication is also available in the following languages:
DA ISBN 92-825-21940C
DE ISBN 92-825-2195-8
GR ISBN 92-825-2196-6
FR ISBN 92-825-2198-2
IT ISBN 92-825-2199-0
NL ISBN 92-825-2200-8
Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1981
ISBN 92­825­2197­4
Catalogue number: CB-31-80-102-EN-C
© ECSC - EEC - EAEC, Brussels ■ Luxembourg, 1981
Printed in Belgium The President and the Members of the Commission of the European Communities
to the President of the European Parliament
Madam,
We have the honour to present the General Report on the Activities of the
Communities, which the Commission is required to publish by Article 18 of the
Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European .
This report, for 1980, is the fourteenth since the merger of the executives.
In accordance with the procedure described in the Declaration on the System for
Fixing Community Farm Prices contained in the Accession Documents of 22
January 1972, the Commission has already sent Parliament the 1980 Report on the
Agricultural Situation in The Community.
Under Article 122 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
the Commission is also preparing a Report on Social Developments in the
Community in 1980.
And, in accordance with an undertaking given to Parliament on 7 June 1971, the
Commission is preparing its tenth annual Report on Competition Policy.
Please accept, Madam President, the expression of our highest consideration.
Brussels, 11 February 1981
Gaston THORN
President
François-Xavier ORTOLI
Wilhelm HAFERKAMP
Poul DALSAGER
Lorenzo NATALI
Claude CHEYSSON
Antonio GIOLITTI
Etienne DAVIGNON
Christopher Samuel TUGENDHAT
Georges CONTOGEORGIS
Karl-Heinz NARJES
Frans ANDRIESSEN
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Ivor RICHARD
Michael O'KENNEDY Contents
CHAPTER I : THE COMMUNITY IN 1980 17
Section 1 : Introduction17
General economic situationintheCommunity17
Community achievements at home18
Enlargement of the Community21
The Community and world events 21
Section 2: Institutionsandotherbodies26
Institutional developments26
Parliament 26
Council28
Commission29
CourtofJustice32
CourtofAuditors33
EconomicandSocialCommittee34
ECSCConsultative35
Information for the general public and specific audiences 35
— Information operations35
• General information 35
• Member States35
• Non-membercountries36
• Press,radioandtelevision37
■ LanguageService37
— Office forOfficialPublicationsof the European Communities38
— StatisticalOfficeoftheEuropean Communities38
— Data processing38
— EuropeanCommunitiesInformation and Documentary Research Centre(CIRCE)39
— Records40
— The Commission'srelationswith workers' and employers' organizationsandwith
the European Youth Forum40
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Section 3 : Financing Community activities 42
Main developments 4
Budgets3
— 1980 financial year
• General budget
• Drawing up of the definitive budget for 1980 and completion of the budgetary
procedure
— 1981 financial year7
• Comprehensive review of the budgetary problems of the Community 4
• General budget
• Preliminary draft budget 4
• Political presentation of the preliminary draft budget 48
• Expenditure
• Revenue9
• Structural and budgeting Innovations
• Budgetary procedure and drawing up of the definitive budget for 1981 50
• ECSC budget 53
— Implementation of the 1979 and 1980 budgets
— Budget projections—1981-82-836
Own resources
— 1980 financial year
— 1981l year7
The future of budgetary financing 59
Convergence and budgetary matters
Changes to financial rules and regulations 61
Budgetary powers 6
European unit of account2
Internal financial control3
Borrowing and lending operations4
— New Community instrument (NCI) 6
— Interest rate subsidies on certain loans granted under the EMS 65
— Entering borrowing and lending operations in the general budget6
Financing of ECSC activities
— Investment in the coal and steel industries7
— Borrowings and loans
Euratom financing 68
— Borrowing and lending operations
European Investment Bank9
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CHAPTER II : BUILDING THE COMMUNITY 73
Section 1 : Economic and monetary policy
Main developments
The economic situation
Coordination of economic and monetary policies4
European Monetary System5
The Community and the international monetary system 77
Initiatives and measures taken by the Community
• Coordination of economic policies
• New Community borrowing and lending instrument8
• Aid for the reconstruction of the earthquake disaster areas in Italy 79
• Changes to the system of Community loans
• Energy and economic policy 80
• Fifth medium-term economic policy programme1
Section 2: Internal market and Industrial affairs3
Main developments
Free movement of goods4
— Measures having an effect equivalent to quantitative restrictions 85
— Removal of technical barriers to trade 86
— Euronorms 89
Business law 90
— Companies
— Intellectual property1
— Civil, commercial and economic law2
— Public contracts3
Free movement of persons and freedom to provide services 94
— Removal of restrictions
— Mutual recognition of diplomas — Access to economic activities
— Special rights of citizens and passport union 9
Distributive trades 95
Small business and Business Cooperation Centre
Industry6
— Steel
— Shipbuilding8
— Textiles9
— Data processing
— New information technologies 100
— Telecommunications
— Aerospace1
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— Other industries 101
Section 3: Customs union4
Main developments
Harmonization of customs rules applied to trade with non-member countries 10
— Common Customs Tariff5
— Economic tariff matters
— Valuation for customs purposes 1°6
— Customs procedures with economic impact 107
— Origin 10
— General legislation8
Simplification of customs checks and formalities In intra-Community trade 109
Section 4 : Competition 110
Main de velopments
General rules applying to undertakings
The rules of competition applied to undertakings1
The rules of applied to forms of State intervention 113
— General aids 11
— Regional aids5
— Industry aids
— State monopolies of a commercial character 116
— Public undertakings7
Section 5: Financial Institutions and taxation8
Main developments
Financial institutions
— Insurance
— Banks 120
— Stock exchanges and other institutions in the securities field 12
Taxation2
— Indirect taxation
• Turnover tax -,
• Tax-free allowances for travellers- 12
• Excise duties3
— Direct taxation4
• Mergers, divisions and contributions of assets occurring between companies
of different Member States
• Company taxation
— Tax evasion and avoidance
— Supervision of the application of Community provisions 125
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