Weekly OJ Listing

Week ending 4th December 1997

1. Partner searches:

2. Publications received:

3. Useful Internet addresses:

4. A Strategy and Action Plan for the promotion of renewable energy resources.

5. European Commission proposes amendment to the Directive on hazardous waste incineration.

The following items - published in the Community's Official Journal - may be of interest to some or all of the NBO partners. Please circulate this list as widely as possible, so that maximum advantage can be obtained from early warning.

EPQ = European Parliamentary Question. The Commission, when replying to such questions, often makes policy statements indicating where future legislation is likely or where financing will be targeted.

Items mentioned below may be consulted and photocopies made at the European Documentation Centre based at the University of Nottingham library, or the European Information Centre located at the Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce.

Partners and companies may obtain copies of items listed from Graham Birkitt at the EIC, Tel: (0115) 962 46 24, Fax: (0115) 985 66 12. Please send him a fax specifying items required and the W/E date.

If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to contact either Graham or myself.

ITEM REFERENCE
1 The exchange rate on 25/11/97 was 1 ECU = £0.67 OJ C360/97p.1
2. European Court of Auditor's report (two volumes). OJ C348/97All pages
3. Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on:

Proposal for a Council Directive on the landfill of waste.		 OJ C355/97

pp.4-7
4. Communication from the Commission on "Cohesion and the information society". pp.12-15
5. Sustainable development in building and housing in Europe. pp.16-21
6. The role of socio-economic partners in the Interreg programmes and the Eures network. pp.21-25
7. The impact on SMEs of the steady, widespread reduction in funds allocated to research and technological development in the EU. pp.31-35
8. The European Council on Employment. pp.64-72
9. Communication from the Commission : Environmental taxes and charges in the single market. pp.pp.79-82
10.
  • The Commission Working Paper: towards the Fifth Framework Programme - scientific and technological objectives.
  • The proposal for a European Parliament and Council decision concerning the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (1998-2002).
  • The proposal for a Council decision concerning the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) for research and training activities (1998-2002).
 pp.38-50
11. Proposal for a Council Directive establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy. pp.83-87
12. Commission Decision on the approval of the single programming document for Community structural assistance in the region of the East Midlands concerned by Objective 2 in the United Kingdom. OJ L312/97pp.1-4
13. Resolution of the ECSC Consultative Committee on:

The proposal submitted by the Commission for a Council Directive restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products.		 OJ C356/97

pp.3-6
14. The research fund decided on at the Amsterdam European Council. pp.6-7
15. Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) in Case C-21/96: Commission of the European Union v. Kingdom of Spain - (Failure by a Member State to fulfil its obligations - Council Directive 84/466/Euratom). OJ C357/97
p.8
16. Communication from the Commission - Community policies in support of employment. COM(97)611
Pages: 17
17. Voluntary work. p.208

ITEM REFERENCE
1. Open procedure - Commission DG1/D - Information technology services.Deadline: 05.12.97, docs, 22.12.97, submissions. OJ S227/97pp.36-37
2. Open call for tenders (No III-97-81) - Commission DGIII - Provision of services relating to the collection and multimedia presentation of Esprit results - second phase.Deadline: 16.01.98, docs, 23.01.98, submissions. OJ S230/97pp.26-27

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