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Projects of common interest
The participating States,
Considering that their economic potential and their natural
resources permit, through common efforts, long-term co-operation
in the implementation, including at the regional or sub-regional
level, of major that these may contribute to the speeding-up of
the economic development of the countries participating therein,
Considering it desirable that the competent organizations,
enterprises and firms of all countries should be given the
possibility of indicating their interest in participating in such
projects, and, in case of agreement, of taking part in their
implementation,
Noting that the provisions adopted by the Conference
relating to industrial co-operation are also applicable to
projects of common interest,
regard it as necessary to encourage, where appropriate, the
investigation by competent and interested organizations,
enterprises and firms of the possibilities for the carrying out
of projects of common interest in the fields of energy resources
and of the exploitation of raw materials, as well as of transport
and communications;
regard it as desirable that organizations, enterprises and
firms exploring the possibilities of taking part in projects of
common interest exchange with their potential partners, through
the appropriate channels, the requisite economic, legal,
financial and technical information pertaining to these projects;
consider that the fields of energy resources, in particular,
petroleum, natural gas and coal, and the extraction and
processing of mineral raw materials, in particular, iron ore and
bauxite, are suitable ones for strengthening long-term economic
co-operation and for the development of trade which could result;
consider that possibilities for projects of common interest
with a view to long-term economic co-operation also exist in the
following fields:
- exchanges of electrical energy within Europe with a view to utilizing the capacity of the electrical power stations as rationally as possible;
- co-operation in research for new sources of energy and, in particular, in the field of nuclear energy;
- development of road networks and co-operation aimed at establishing a coherent navigable network in Europe;
- co-operation in research and the perfecting of equipment for multimodal transport operations and for the handling of containers;
recommend that the States interested in projects of common
interest should consider under what conditions it would be
possible to establish them, and if they so desire, create the
necessary conditions for their actual implementation.