s necessary to ensure their effectiveness and the co-
ordination of the Funds with one another and with the other existing
financial instruments.
The Council, acting in accordance with the same procedure, shall
before 31 December 1993 set up a Cohesion Fund to provide a
financial contribution to projects in the fields of environment and trans-
European networks in the area of transport infrastructure.
ARTICLE 130e
Implementing decisions relating to the European Regional
Development Fund shall be taken by the Council, acting in accordance
with the procedure referred to in Article 189c and after consulting the
Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.
With regard to the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
Fund - Guidance Section, and the European Social Fund, articles 43
and 125 respectively shall continue to apply.
TITLE XV
Research and technological development
ARTICLE 130f
1. The Community shall have the objective of strengthening the
scientific and technological bases of Community industry and
encouraging it to become more competitive at international level, while
promoting all the research activities deemed necessary by virtue of
other Chapters of this Treaty.
2. For this purpose the Community shall, throughout the Community,
encourage undertakings, including small and medium-sized
undertakings, research centres and universities in their research and
technological development activities of high quality; it shall support
their efforts to co-operate with one another, aiming, notably, at
enabling undertakings to exploit the internal market potential to the
full, in particular through the opening up of national public contracts,
the definition of common standards and the removal of legal and fiscal
obstacles to that co-operation.
3. All community activities under this Treaty in the area of research
and technological development, including demonstration projects,
shall be decided on and implemented in accordance with the
provisions of this Title.
ARTICLE 130g
In pursuing these objectives, the Community shall carry out the
following activities, complementing the objectives complementing the
activities carried out in the Member States:
(a) implementation of research, technological development and
demonstration programmes, by promoting co-operation with and
between undertakings, research centres and universities;
(b) promotion of co-operation in the field of Community research,
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