Official Journal
of the European Communities

ISSN 0378-6986

C 337
Volume 39
11 November 1996

English edition

Information and Notices

Notice No

Contents

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I Information

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II Preparatory Acts

Committee of the Regions

Session of June 1996

96/C 337/01

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on 'The Allocation of the Reserve for Community Initiatives for the period until 1999'

1

96/C 337/02

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on 'The Northern Dimension of the European Union and Cross-Border Cooperation on the Border between the European Union and the Russian Federation and in the Barents Region'

7

96/C 337/03

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the 'Commission Communication to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the Common Transport Policy Action Programme 1995-2000'

13

96/C 337/04

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on 'The Citizens' Network: Fulfilling the potential of public passenger transport in Europe - European Commission Green Paper'

20

96/C 337/05

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on:
— the 'Communication from the Commission on the set of measures proposed for the development of Community postal services' and
— the 'Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive on common rules for the development of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service'

28

96/C 337/06

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the 'Second UN Conference on Housing and Human Settlements - Istanbul 1996; Agenda 21 at regional and local level'

34

96/C 337/07

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on:
— the 'White Paper on an energy policy for the European Union' and
— the 'Proposal for a Council Directive to introduce rational planning techniques in the electricity and gas distribution sectors'

41

96/C 337/08

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the 'Communication from the Commission on the multilingual information society and the Proposal for a Council Decision on the adoption of a multiannual programme to promote the linguistic diversity of the Community in the information society'

45

96/C 337/09

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the 'Communication from the Commission on priorities for consumer policy 1996-1998'

49

96/C 337/10

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on:
— the 'Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Decision adapting for the second time Decision No 1110/94/EC concerning the Fourth Framework Programme of Activities in the field of Research, Technological Development and Demonstration (1994-1998)' and
— the 'Proposal for a Council Decision adapting for the second time Decision 94/268/Euratom concerning the Framework Programme of Activities in the field of Research and Training for the European Atomic Energy Community (1994-1998)'

55

96/C 337/11

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on 'Interaction between education of young people and sport - A proposal for Union-level actions to promote the positive effects of sport in Europe'

60

96/C 337/12

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the 'Proposal for a Council Decision proclaiming 1997 European Year against Racism'

63

96/C 337/13

Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on:
— the 'Commission Communication concerning communicable disease surveillance networks in the European Community' and
— the 'Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Decision creating a network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the European Community'

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