– Specific calls of thematic programmes: these calls were addressed to coordinators of on-going contracts, encouraging them to consider the possibility of adding extra partners from pre-accession states.

Eight specific denominations of spirits originating in the EU which are not geographical denominations are also protected: 'Grappa', 'Ouzo', 'Korn', 'Kornbrand', 'Jägertee', 'Jagertee', 'Jagatee' and 'Pacharan'.

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Whereas Directive 94/45/EC provides for special treatment to be accorded to Community-scale undertakings and groups of undertakings in which there is, at 22 September 1996, an agreement covering the entire workforce providing for the transnational information and consultation of employees; whereas, accordingly, Community-scale undertakings and groups of undertakings falling within the scope of that Directive solely as a result of its application to the United Kingdom should be granted similar treatment;

(5) Whereas it is appropriate to define the concept of concentration in such a manner as to cover operations bringing about a lasting change in the structure of the undertakings concerned; whereas in the specific case of joint ventures it is appropriate to include within the scope and procedure of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 all full-function joint ventures; whereas, in addition to the dominance test set out in Article 2 of that Regulation, it should be provided that the Commission apply the criteria of Article 85 (1) and (3) of the Treaty to such joint ventures, to the extent that their creation has as its direct consequence an apprec ...[+++]iable restriction of competition between undertakings that remain independent; whereas, if the effects of such joint ventures on the market are primarily structural, Article 85 (1) does not as a general rule apply; whereas Article 85 (1) may apply if two or more parent companies remain active in the market of the joint venture, or, possibly, if the creation of the joint venture has as its object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition between the parent companies in upstream, downstream or neighbouring markets; whereas, in this context, the appraisal of all competition aspects of the creation of the joint venture must be made within the same procedure;

The specific call launched at the initiative of Franz FISCHLER, the Commissioner responsible for agriculture and rural developement, and Edith CRESSON, the Commissioner responsible for research, is based on the priorities identified by the Weissmann report and focuses on the following research areas: 1- Development of specific, sensitive, practical and rapid diagnostic tests for TSE infectivity or for the detection of disease specific markers for use in live animals in the pre-clinical and/or clinical phase of disease.