gical development and demonstration with third countries and
international organizations;
(c) dissemination and optimization of the results of activities in
Community research, technological development and demonstration;
(d) stimulation of the training and mobility of researchers in the
Community.
ARTICLE 130h
1. The Community and the Member States shall co-ordinate their
research and technological development activities so as to ensure
that national policies and Community policy are mutually consistent.
2. In close co-operation with the Member States, the Commission may
take any useful initiative to promote the co-ordination referred to in
paragraph 1.
ARTICLE 130i
1. A multiannual framework programme, setting out all activities of the
Community, shall be adopted by the Council, acting in accordance with
the procedure referred to in Article 189b after consulting the Economic
and Social Committee. The Council shall act unanimously throughout
the procedures referred to in Article 189b.
The framework programme shall:
- establish the scientific and technological objectives to be achieved
by the activities provided for in Article 130g and fix the relevant
priorities;
- indicate the broad lines of such activities;
- fix the maximum overall amount and the detailed rules for
Community financial participation in the framework programme and the
respective shares in each of the activities provided for.
2. The framework programme shall be adapted or supplemented as the
situation changes.
3. The framework programme shall be implemented through specific
programmes developed within each activity. Each specific programme
shall define the detailed rules for implementing it, fix its duration and
provide for the means deemed necessary. The sum of the amounts
deemed necessary, fixed in the specific programmes, may not exceed
the overall maximum amount fixed for the framework programme and
each activity.
4. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the
Commission and after consulting the European Parliament and the
Economic and Social Committee, shall adopt the specific programmes.
ARTICLE 130j
For the implementation of the multiannual framework programme the
Council shall:
- determine the rules for the participation of undertakings, research
centres and universities;
- lay down the rules governing the dissemination of research results.
ARTICLE 130k
In implementing the multiannual framework programmes,
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