Bulletin of the European Communities. No 9 1979 Volume 12

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Bulletin
OF THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES
Commission
No 9 1979
Volume 12 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
August) in the official Community languages and Spanish.
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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
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Printed in Belgium BULLETIN
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COMMUNITIES
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European Atomic Energyy
Commission of the European Communities
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No 9
1979
Volume 12 Sent to press in October 1979. contents
SPECIAL
PART ONE FEATURES
1. Renewal of the Lomé Convention: A new contract for ACP-EEC
cooperation 7
2. The shipbuilding crisis — Commission report and communica­
tions 13
3. Proposals for the reform of the Commission — Report by the
Independent Review Body6
AKI VVU IN SEPTEMBER 1979
1. Building the Community 2
— Economic and monetary policy6
— Internal market and industrial affairs9
— Customs union 32
— Competition
— Financial institutions and taxation
— Employment and social policy6
— Regional policy8
— Environment and consumer protection 39
— Agriculture 41
— Fisheries5
— Transport7
— Energy
— Research and development, science and education .... 50 2. Enlargement and external relations 53
—t and bilateral relations with applicant countries 5
— Commercial policy4
— Development 56
— International organizations 60
— Relations with certain countries and regions
— Political cooperation7
3. Institutional and political matters 7
—l developments — European policy 7
— Institutions and organs of the Communities2
• Parliament
• Council 7
• Commission 80
• Court of Justice2
•t of Auditors6
• Economic and Social Committee
• ECSC Consultativee8
• European Investment Bank 9
— Financing Community activities
PART THREE DOCUMENTATION
1. Units of account 102
2. Additional references in the Official Journal 105
3. Infringement procedures7
4. The Community at the United Nations
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 PART ONE
SPECIAL FEATURES Standardized abbreviations for the designation of certain monetary units in the different languages of
the Community:
BFR = Belgische frank/Franc belge
LFR = Franc luxembourgeois
DKR = Dansk krone
FF = Franc français
DM = Deutsche Mark
LIT = Lira italiana
HFL = Nederlandse gulden (Hollandse florijn)
UKL = Pound sterling
IRL = Irish pound
USD = United States dollar 1. Renewal
of the Lomé
Convention
ACP-EEC
number of fields. Continuity is thus linked A new contract for ACP-EEC
with progress.
cooperation
The basic principles
1.1.1. On 15 September, following negotia­ of the Lomé policy
tions that had been officially opened at
ministerial level on 24 July 1978' and had 1.1.3. The policy embodied in the first
often proved difficult, the ACP gave their ACP-EEC Convention4 signed in 1975 rep­
agreement to the text of a new ACP-EEC resented an original model for a new type of
Convention, subject to a few points to be relations between Europe and the developing
settled between the ACP and EEC Presidents countries with four basic tenets:
(these have now been settled). This will take
(i) Security of cooperation relations, based over from the Lomé Convention, which since
on a de jure system resulting from a contract 1976 has governed relations between the
freely negotiated between equal partners. Community and some fifty African, Carib­
bean and Pacific States. (ii) The establishment between two regional
groups of a single contract, excluding any
The main issues had been settled at a minis­
manipulation or discrimination that might be
terial conference held in Brussels from 25 to
caused by unilateral assessments of the part­
27 June,2 but the agreement reached still had
ners' sovereign choices of economic systems,
to be submitted for consideration by all the
policies or modes of development. This
governments involved; indeed, even after the
means placing cooperation in the context of
texts were finalized by the two Secretariats
non-alignment and respect for national and
(EEC and ACP), the ACP countries still had
cultural individuality.
certain reservations. By recording their agree­
(iii) An overall approach defining and ment to the draft Convention in mid-
bringing together all the instruments of coop­September, following the elucidation of cer­
eration so that, through their diversity, a tain points and subject to the few points men­
balanced response can be made to needs tioned above the ACP States—now number­
which vary according to the different ing 57 compared with the 46 that signed the
economic structures and levels of develop­Lomé Convention in February 19753—gave
ment and are defined on the basis of the green light for the signing of this new
priorities set by the ACP countries them­contract for North-South cooperation, which
selves. is scheduled to take place in Lomé on 31
October. 'Lomé II' will cover a period of five
(iv) Cooperation based on a permanent
years expiring in March 1985.
dialogue made possible by the institutional
structure—which is much the same as under
Consolidation of a policy
1 Bull. EC 7/8-1978, points 1.3.1 to 1.3.5. 1.1.2. The agreement reached on the con­
2. EC 6-1979, point 2.2.45.
tent of the new Convention consolidates the
1 Bull. EC 1-1975, points 1101 to 1105 and 2-1975,
'Lomé policy' by maintaining what has been
point 2324.
achieved and by introducing innovations in a 4 OJ L 25 of 30.1.1976.
Bull. EC 9-1979 ACP-EEC ACP-EEC
the Lomé Convention—but has now been social activity: launching of a genuine policy
given greater scope in that consultations will of cooperation in the mining sector, establish­
become more intensive. ment of machinery for industrial consulta­
tions, operations planned in the fields of
energy cooperation, fisheries and labour Improving on past achievements
(problem of migrant workers).
1.1.4. The basic principles that gave the
Lomé policy its originality therefore remain
and the new Convention fits into this estab­ The content of the new Convention
lished framework. Over and above the
adjustments, progress and innovations 1.1.5. With the strengthening of certain
brought by the new provisions, the essential provisions in the present Convention and the
point is the confirmation of a political choice improvements or innovations now intro­
and of a type of inter-regional relationship in duced, the broad outlines of the new ACP-
the North-South context. EEC Convention are as follows.
Maintaining what exists involves pursuing a
policy of opening up the Community market
Trade cooperation
to our partners' products and providing
financing which increases in real terms while
1.1.6. The provisions of Lomé II confirm
remaining within Europe's present
the opening up of the Community market.
capabilities. It means enlarging the scope and
Since 99.5 % of ACP exports were already
effectiveness of the Stabex system, making
guaranteed free access the possible improve­
the methods and instruments better suited to
ments could only be marginal.
the requirements of agricultural or industrial
development, improving the administration New concessions have been made for some
of financial cooperation and so on. agricultural products, which are exported in
limited quantities but are of particular
The innovations introduced in the new Con­
importance to certain ACP countries: this
vention involve an extension of the scope of
applies, for example, to tomatoes from
cooperation. The policies already initiated
Senegal and onions from Cape Verde. Special
under the first Convention will be taken still
attention has been paid to two products
further: this applies, for example, to Stabex,
which are tradi