1. Council Decision 93/464/EEC of 22 July 1993 on a framework programme for priority actions in the field of statistical information 1993 to 1997(2) specified that the audiovisual sector should be regarded as one of the priority service sectors at Community level and provided for the establishment of a new information system based on the "enterprise" approach and functional statistics.
2. In nonmanufacturing service organizations the prevalent type of information system supports transaction processing. Transactions are sets of discrete inputs, submitted by users at unpredictable intervals, which call for database searching, analysis, and modification.
