76/161/EEC: Council Decision of 8 December 1975 establishing a common procedure for the setting up and constant updating of an inventory of sources of information on the environment in the Community

• Articles: 9

Article 1

A common procedure is hereby established for the setting up and updating of a permanent inventory of sources of information on the environment in the Community.

This inventory shall include for each Member State a list: - of scientific and technical information and documentation centres and services;

- of specialist centres and independent experts;

- of current or scheduled research projects.

Article 2

Member States shall assemble the information requested in the questionnaire set out in the Annex and shall forward the information to the Commission in a manner and form compatible with the latter's requirements. (1)OJ No C 157, 14.7.1975, p. 93. (2)OJ No C 263, 17.11.1975, p. 36. (3)OJ No C 112, 20.12.1973, p. 3. (4)OJ No L 100, 21.4.1975, p. 26.

The information shall be collected annually to enable the inventory to be updated. This information will be forwarded to the Commission not later than four months after the end of the reference year.

Article 3

Each Member State shall designate the national authority which will be responsible for assembling and forwarding to the Commission the information referred to in Articles 1 and 2, and shall inform the Commission thereof.

Article 4

The Commission shall develop the software and the methods of indexing and encoding the information referred to in Articles 1 and 2. It shall undertake the automated processing of this information and shall supply Member States with a copy of the inventory on magnetic tape or on any other medium and with the software necessary for its use.

Article 5

The Commission shall forward to the International Referral System (IRS) of the United Nations Environment Programme a magnetic tape containing the appropriate information which the Member States wish it to supply to this system.

Article 6

In the light of any experience gained, the list of information constituting the inventory and the methods of preparing the inventory may be revised by the Commission in collaboration with the competent national authorities referred to in Article 3, due account being taken of the measures taken by the Community for the harmonization of the inventories of research projects.

Article 7

Member States shall forward the information requested in the questionnaire set out in the Annex for the first time within three months of the publication of this Decision in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Article 8

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 December 1975.

For the Council

The President

M. PEDINI

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX INVENTORY OF INFORMATION SOURCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

QUESTIONNAIRE

GENERAL

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RESEARCH

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DOCUMENTATION/INFORMATION SERVICES

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