No L 334/24 Official Journal of the‘Europcan Communities 22.12. 94 COUNCIL DECISION of 23 November 1994 adopting a specific programme for research and technological development, including demonstration, in the field of mformatlon technologies (1994 to 1998) (94/802/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 130i (4) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1), Having regard to .the opinion of the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the E_cononﬁc and Social Committee (3), Whereas, by Decision No 1110/94/EC (1), the European Parliament and the Council have -adopted a fourth. framework programame for Community activities in the field of -research, technological development and demonstration (RTD) for the period 1994 to 1998 specifying inter alia the activities to be carried out in the field of information technologies; whereas this Decision takes account of the grounds set out in the preamble to that Decision; Whereas Article 130i (3) of the Treaty stipulates that the framework programme shall be implemented through specific programmes developed within each activity under the framework programme and that each specific programme shall define the detailed rules for its implementation, fix its duration and provxde for the means deemed necessary; Whereas the amount deemed necessary for carrying out this programme is ECU 1 911 million; whereas the appropriations for each financial year shall be laid down by the budgetary authority, subject to the availability of resources within the financial perspectives and the conditions set out in Article 1 (3) of Decision No 1110/94/EC; Whereas information technologies increasingly underpin the competitiveness of all industry and services and, in addition, they are becoming the vehicle for an increasing number of social activities; whereas they could help to (1) OJ No C 228, 17. 8. 1994, p. 34, and OJ No C 262, 20. 9. 1994, p. 6. (2) OJ No C 205, 25. 7. 1994. {3) Opinion delivered on 14 and 15 September 1994 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (4) O] No L 126, 18. 5. 1994, p. 1. enhance the quality of life and improve working " conditions; whereas they therefore require major efforts in research, the dissemination and optxmnzatlon of results and trammg, ’ Whereas this programme may make a significant contribution . to the stimulation of - growth, to the strengthening of competitiveness and to the development of employment in the Commuinity, as indicated in the White Paper. on ‘Growth, competitiveness and employment’; whereas this should be accompanied by new ways of organizing production and work so as to facilitate the acquisition of these new technologles by the greatest number of people; Whereas the European Council of Brussels on 10 and 11 December 1993 decided, on the basis of the White Paper on ‘Growth, competitiveness and employment’, to- implement an action plan to develop information infrastructures at European Union and Member State level; whereas information technology research provides “the essential technological basis for the development of . these emerging information infrastructures; Whereas it is important that there be maximum user - involvement in the various stages of RTD projects, so that their requirements are taken into account, and that they be trained to make use of the results thereof; Whereas  software, component and  subsystem technologies, multimedia systems, 0pen'microprocé$sor systems, high-performance computing and networkmg, technologies for business processes, integration in manufacturing and the corresponding long-term research were considered as priorities in Dec151on No 1110/94/EC; Whereas the content of the fourth framework programme for Community RTD activities was established in accordance with the subsidiarity principle; whereas this specific programme -specifies the content of the activities to be carried out in accordance with this principle in the field of information technologies; Whereas Decision No- 1110/94/EC iays down that a Community action is justified if, inter alia, research contributes to the strengthening of the economic and