Article 130i

1. A multi annual framework programme, setting out all the 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 procedure 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 multi annual 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 multi annual framework programme, supplementary programmes may be decided on involving the participation of certain Member States only, which shall finance them subject to possible Community participation.

The Council shall adopt the rules applicable to supplementary. programmes, particularly as regards the dissemination of knowledge and access by other Member States.

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