Official Journal
of the European Communities

ISSN 0378-6986

C 295
Volume 39
7 October 1996

English edition

Information and Notices

Notice No

Contents

Page

I Information

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II Preparatory Acts

Economic and Social Committee

Session of July 1996

96/C 295/01

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a 13th European Parliament and Council Directive on company law concerning takeover bids'

1

96/C 295/02

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a Council Decision on a third multiannual programme for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union (1997-2000)'

6

96/C 295/03

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions'

11

96/C 295/04

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Green Paper on the review of the Merger Regulation'

17

96/C 295/05

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'White Paper on education and training teaching and learning: Towards the learning society'

25

96/C 295/06

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 93/246/EEC of 29 April 1993 adopting the second phase of the trans-European cooperation scheme for higher education (Tempus II) (1994-1998)'

34

96/C 295/07

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending, for the benefit of beneficiaries of preretirement benefits, Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to the members of their families moving within the Community and Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71'

39

96/C 295/08

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending, for the benefit of unemployed persons, Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons to self-employed persons and to the members of their families moving within the Community and Regulation (EEC) No 574/72 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71'

41

96/C 295/09

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive establishing a mechanism for the recognition of qualifications in respect of the professional activities covered by the Directives on liberalization and transitional measures and supplementing the general systems for the recognition of qualifications'

43

96/C 2295/10

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a Council Decision on inter-administration telematic networks for statistics relating to the trading of goods between Member States - EDICOM'

46

96/C 295/11

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on:
— 'The sixth annual Report on the Structural Funds 1994' and
— 'The new regional programmes under Objectives 1 and 2 of the Community structural policies'

47

96/C 295/12

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 90/219/EEC on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms'

52

96/C 295/13

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on 'The bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis and its wide-ranging consequences for the European Union'

55

96/C 295/14

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Communication from the Commission: Priorities for consumer policy (1996-1998)'

64

96/C 295/15

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the integrated management of coastal zones'

74

96/C 295/16

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'World Food Summit in Rome, 13-17 November 1996'

78

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