No L 67/54 Official Journal of the European Communities 9. 3. 84 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DECISION of 28 February 1984 concerning a European programme for research and development in informa- tion technologies (ESPRIT) (84/130/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commis- sion ('), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas the Community has as its task, by estab- lishing a common market and progressively approxi- mating the economic policies of Member States, to promote throughout the Community a harmonious development of economic activity and closer relations between the States belonging to it; Whereas the Council adopted a resolution on data processing on 15 July 1974 (%); Whereas the Heads of State or of Government, meeting in Strasbourg on 21 and 22 June 1979, declared that the dynamic complex of information industries, based on the new electronic technologies, offered a major source of economic growth and social development ; No C 321, 26. 11. 1983, p. 1. No C 307, 14. 11. 1983, p. 127. %) OJ No C 341, 19. 12. 1983, p. 33. O] No C 86, 20. 7. 1974, p. 37. Whereas the Commission has proposed to the Council a scientific and technical strategy and a framework programme for the period 1984 to 1987; Whereas the proposed framework programme calls for an action programme of research and development in information technology ; Whereas the Council has adopted, by Decision 82/878/EEC (%), a series of pilot projects in the field of information technology ; Whereas the response of industry, universities and research institutions to the pilot projects phase has been of very high quality and shows a high degree of interest ; whereas it would be necessary to provide adequate resources to assure continuity in the actions about to be launched, and to proceed to the imple- mentation of a full-scale action programme ; Whereas a full-scale programme of research and deve- lopment in information technology should have the broad goals indicated in the Annex hereto, but be capable of revision at various levels of detail to reflect changing industrial priorities ; Whereas this programme meets the absolute need for the constitution or consolidation of a specifically European industrial potential in the technologies concerned ; whereas its beneficiaries must therefore be the undertakings, universities and research centres in the Community which are best suited to attain these objectives ; () OJ No L 369, 29. 12. 1982, p. 37.