Commission of the European Communities Spring 1994 Directorate-General for Industry (DGIII) and Directorate-General for Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research (DGXIII). INTERNAL MARKET Council agrees on 4th R&D Framework Programme Opening the European Market for mobile and personal communications The Council of Ministers of the European Union has adopted the 4th Framework Programme for research and development (1994-1998) after conciliation procedures On April 1994 the Commission adopted As well as accounting for greater than with the European Parliament. The a Green Paper on a common approach 45% of the total user base, cellular also to mobile and personal communications accounts for around 90% of the value of agreed budget is 12.3 billion ecus, with an additional 700 million ecus in the European Union, following a the total European market for mobile being kept as a reserve to be proposal from Martin Bangemann and services and 75% of that fore released on 30 June 1996 at the Karel Van Miert, EC Commissioners. equipment. latest. Mobile communications are currently Personal communications will the fastest growing area within the ultimately allow person-to-person The increase of 300 million ecus, following on from discussions with telecommunications sector.