Budgetary amendments to programmes under the second RTD framework programme
The proposal for a Council Decision of 1 February 1991 (COM(91) 13) amends the budget of fourteen specific RTD programmes under the second framework programme. To step up the search for new energy options the JOULE programme budget shall be increased from ECU 122 million to ECU 162 million, reducing the appropriations for other programmes by sums ranging from ECU 0,5 million to - in the case of ESPRIT - ECU 12 million. Amendments affect: Non nuclear energy and the rational use of energy (JOULE); medical and health research; telecommunications technologies (RACE); science and technology for development; information technologies (ESPRIT); informatics for road transport (DRIVE); applied metrology and chemical analysis (BCR); stimulation of scientific cooperation (SCIENCE); JRC programmes; agro-industry (ECLAIR); industrial manufacturing technologies and advanced materials (BRITE/EURAM); marine science and technology (MAST); environment and climatology (STEP and EPOCH); biotechnology (BRIDGE).