a single electronic network, or a platform of electronic networks, across Member States.

Whereas the Schengen Information System should be managed within the EU framework by a separate agency, financed from the EU budget; whereas the Community information system operating under the responsibility of the Commission should be established under a single computer network system for the data received under the three conventions (Schengen, Europol and Customs Use).

In Newfoundland, for example, with the TETRA network there are individuals who have been able to move their fish culturing, their aquaculturing, much further ahead because they were able to talk on computer networks with people in British Columbia and learn about techniques which would move their business forward faster.

The network to be set up in the Andean region (Government institutes responsible for scientific/industrial programming and university institutes which specialize in the four areas covered - biotechnology, new materials, new sources of energy and information technology) will draw on the resources of the European network for staff training, the dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge and the setting-up of a computer network (and a group of specialists for the selection, evaluation and disclosure of data to university and industrial users).

Since the end of 1992, a computerized data-exchange network covering the entire Community, the VAT Information Exchange System (VIES), had been launched by the Commission, in conjunction with the Member States.

On the Commission's proposal, the Council has adopted on 28 January 1992 the Regulation (1) which organizes the computerised and telematics exchange information between the Twelve.