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Document 12006E163

Treaty establishing the European Community (consolidated version)
Part Three - Community policies
TITLE XVIII - Research and technological development
Article 163

OJ C 321E, 29.12.2006, p. 120–120 (ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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12006E163

Treaty establishing the European Community (consolidated version) - Part Three - Community policies - TITLE XVIII - Research and technological development - Article 163

Official Journal C 321 E , 29/12/2006 P. 0120 - 0120
Official Journal C 325 , 24/12/2002 P. 0105 - Consolidated version
Official Journal C 340 , 10/11/1997 P. 0251 - Consolidated version
Official Journal C 224 , 31/08/1992 P. 0050 - Consolidated version


Article 163

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 cooperate 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 cooperation.

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.

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