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Document 11997E157

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)
    Part Three: Community policies
    Title XVI: Industry
    Article 157
    Article 130 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)
    Article 130 - EEC Treaty

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tec_1997/art_157/oj

    11997E157

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version) - Part Three: Community policies - Title XVI: Industry - Article 157 - Article 130 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) - Article 130 - EEC Treaty

    Official Journal C 340 , 10/11/1997 P. 0249 - Consolidated version
    Official Journal C 224 , 31/08/1992 P. 0049 - Consolidated version
    (EEC Treaty - no official publication available)


    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)

    Article 157

    1. The Community and the Member States shall ensure that the conditions necessary for the competitiveness of the Community's industry exist.

    For that purpose, in accordance with a system of open and competitive markets, their action shall be aimed at:

    - speeding up the adjustment of industry to structural changes;

    - encouraging an environment favourable to initiative and to the development of undertakings throughout the Community, particularly small and medium-sized undertakings;

    - encouraging an environment favourable to cooperation between undertakings;

    - fostering better exploitation of the industrial potential of policies of innovation, research and technological development.

    2. The Member States shall consult each other in liaison with the Commission and, where necessary, shall coordinate their action. The Commission may take any useful initiative to promote such coordination.

    3. The Community shall contribute to the achievement of the objectives set out in paragraph 1 through the policies and activities it pursues under other provisions of this Treaty. The Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission, after consulting the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee, may decide on specific measures in support of action taken in the Member States to achieve the objectives set out in paragraph 1.

    This Title shall not provide a basis for the introduction by the Community of any measure which could lead to a distortion of competition.

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