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CONFIDENTIAL
Propanalfor&
REGULATION (EEC)OFTHECOUNCILREGULATION(EEC)OFTHECOUNCIL
®nl,:-A«•?priorityagriculturalregionsand»»neapwt-yid*^
iitcr.vivfRegulation (EB&)enthefinancingbytheGuidance*e-at'.*6
t,.°i.*A^^uUar&l GMidfm&eandGuaranteeF>ni*.fprojesta
wM!s:;»pr*.grasm<sforthedevelopmentofpriorityagri
•s\.I*.«ï .regions
■**>•»««.»from-the theCouncil,/

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_Explanatory Memorandum
1.General Regulation (EEC )n° of........ .,onthe
financing "bytheGuidance Section oftheEuropean Agricultural Guidance
andGuarantee Fund ofprojects falling within programmes for :thedevelop­
ment ofpriority agricultural regions provides fortheintroduction of
asystem ofregional development incentives topromote thecreation
ofemployment inregions having asubstantial surplus ofagricultural
workers .Ifthemeans ofdoing this aretobeeffective ,/they must be
concentrated onalimited number ofagricultural regions forpriority
development .
2.Tothis end ,Article 2ofCouncil Regulation (EEC )n°
provides that theCouncil ,acting inaccordance with thevoting
procedure laid down inArticle 43oftheTreaty onaproposal from the
Commission ,shall determine thelist ofpriority agricultural regions
' r-
inthelight ofthefollowing criteria inparticular :
-thepercentage oftheworking population engaged inagriculture must
behigher there than theCommunity average ;
-thegross percapita domestic product atfactor cost must belower
there than theCommunity average ;
-thepercentage oftheworking population engaged inindustry must be
lower there than theCommunity average .
This Article further provides that theCouncil ,acting inaccordance
with thevoting procedure laid down inArticle 43of "theTreaty ona
proposal from theCommission ,mayalso designate aspriority regions
within themeaning oftheRegulation ,zones which satisfy thethree
criteria setoutwhere there isasubstantial surplus ofagricultural
workers although aitui-ted inaregion notmeeting thethree criteria (l).
(l)Doc .R/2672/72of1December 1972 .

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3.The three abovementioned Community averages arebased onnational
statistics sent totheCommission bytheMember States .In.l971 »
theCommunity average oftheworking population engaged in
agriculture was9,8 i°i "theCommunity average gross percapita
domestic product atfactor cost was2.420 units ofaccount .andthe
Community average oftheworting population engaged in .industry
was 43,9
4.Following consultations between theCommission departments and
theMember States' national "administration 's,ithasbeen possible
toverify regional statistics soastocompare them with the
Community averages and totake account ofadditional analytical
factors forthepurpose 'ofdrawing upthe list' bfpriority agricul -
ralregions and zones set out inthis Regulation .
5.Amapshowing theproposed regions andzones isannexed tothis
explanatory memorandum .

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Proposal foraRegulation (EEC )n°...0„ ...oftheCouncil on
thelist ofpriority agricultural regions andzones provided forin
Council Regulation (EEC")n° ,/ of .onthe
financing bytheGuidance Section oftheEuropean Agricultural
Guidance andGuarantee Fund ofprojects falling within programmes
forthedevelopment ofpriority agricultural regions ,(l):
THECOUNCIL OPTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
having regard totheTreaty establishing theEuropean Economic
Community ?
having regard toArticle 2ofCouncil Regulation (EEC )ri$ .,„.
of
Having regard totheproposal from theCommission *
Whereas intheregions covered bythis Regulation thepercentage of
theworking population engaged inagriculture exceeds theCommunity
average ;whereas thegross percapita domestic product atfactor cost
islower there than theCommunity average ;whereas thepercentage of
theworking population engaged inindustry islower there than the
Community average ;
Whereas the zones covered bythis .-Regulation Satisfy the same criteria
as .theregions andhave asubstantial surplus ofagricultural workers ;
Whereas consultations between theCommission ,and theMember States have
made itpossible totake into consideration additional analytical
factors ;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
O.J ,n0,,,.,./ t..p«.

ΑγϊϊοΙΘ 1
Thefollowingshallconstitutepriorityagricultural regionswithinthe
meaningofCoùncilRégulation (EEŒ)n°,./..,.,....of., :
Belgium.... .■>
-laprovimoe "duLuxembourgetlesarrondissements contigus -de
Philippeville etDinant;
Germany(situationoftheKreisfreienStadteandLandkreiseon27May
1970): ■""
-dieGebietseinheit (fürdasBundesraumordnungsprogramm )Schleswigund
dieanschliessenden Landkreise Rendsburg-Eckernförde ,Dithmarschen ;
-dieGebietseinheit Emsunddieanschliessenden Landkreise Ammerland,
Cloppenburg ,Bersenbrück ,Wittlage ;
-vonderGebietseinheit LüneburgerHeidedieKreisfreieStadtLüneburg,
dieLandkreiseLüneburg,Lüchow-Dannenberg ,Soltau,Uelzenunddie
anschliessende Kreisfreie StadtCuxhavensowiedieanschliessenden
Landkreise LandHadeln,Wesermüride ,Stade,Bremervörde ,Rotenburg ,
Verden;
-dieGebietseinheit Trier'Unddieanschliessenden Landkreise Rhein-
Lahn-Kreis ,Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis,Cochem-Zell ;
-vonderGebietseinheit Landshut-PassaudieKreisfreien Städte
Straubing ,Deggendorf ,Passau,dieLandkreiseMainburg,Rottenburg
ä,ä.p.,Mallersdorf ,Straubing,Bogen,Viechtach,Regen,Dingolfing ,
Landaua.,d„J„,Deggendorf ,Grafenau,Wolfstein,Vilshofen,Passau,
Wegsheid,Vilsbiburg ,Eggenfelden ,Pfarrkirchen ,Griesbachi.R,
unddieanschliessenden LandkreiseOberviechtach ,Neunburgv.W„,
Waldmünchen ,'Cham,Ktftzting *
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France:
-lesrégionsdeprogrammeBretagne,Poitou-Charentes ,Limousin,
Aquitaine,Midi-Pyrénées,Corse;
-delarégiondeprogrammePaysdela.Loire:lesdépartements deLoire-
Atlantique ,Vendée,lesarrondissements deMayenne,Laval,Chateau-
Gontier(départementdeMayenne),lesarrondissements deCholet,Segré,
Angers,Saumur(département deMaine-et-Loire); .
-delarégiondeprogrammeAuvergne:lesdépartements deCantal,Haute-
Loire,lesarrondissements d'Ambert,Issoire(département duPuy-de-Bâe),
lescantonsdeBourg-Lastie ,Herment,Rochefort-Montagne ,Saint^Amand-
Thallende,Saint-Dier-d'Auvergne,Veyre-Monton (arrondissement deCler-
moni-Ferrand ,département duPuy-de-Dôme),lescantonsdeManzat,Pont-
aùrauiMYPontgibaud ,Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne ,lesdeuxcantonsdeRiom,
Combronde,Aigueperse,Randan,Ennezat(arrondissement deRiom,départe­
mentduPuy-de-Dôme);
-delarégiondeprogrammeLanguedoc :ledépartement deLozère,lescan­
tonsdeGénolhac,Bessèges,Barjac,Saint-Ambroix (arrondissement
d'Alès,département duGard),l'arrondissement deCarcassonne(départe­
mentdel'Aude);
etlespartiessuivantesduterritoirequisontcontiguè'sàcesrégions:
-le'département delaManche,lesarrondissements deBayeux,Vire(dépar­
tementduCalvados),lescantonsdeThury-Marcourt,Villers-Bocàge
(arrondissement deCaen,département duCalvados),lescantonsdela
Ferte-Macé,Domfront,Passais,Juvigny-squs-Andaine(arrondissement
d'Alençon,département del'Orne),lescantonsdeFiers,Tincheb.ray
.Messei(arrondissement d'Argentan,département del'Orne);
-lesarrondissements duBlanc,delaChâtre(département del'Indre),le
cantond'Argenton-sur-Creuse(arrondissement decÊVeauroux ,départe­
mentdel'Indre),lescantonsdeSaulzais-le-Porier,Charenton-du-Cher,
•A

Chateauneuf-sur-Cher,LeChâtelet-en-Berry,Châteaumeillant ,Saint­
.Amand-Mônt-Rond(arrondissement deSaint-Amand-Mont-Rond,département
duCher)*
-lescantonsdeLargentière ,LesVans,Joyeuse,Saint-Etienne-de-Lugdar:
Valgorge,Burzet,Montpezat-sous-Bauzon,Thu'eyts,Coucouron(arrondis­
sementdeLargentière ,département del'Ardèche),lescantonsd'Aitrai-
gues-sur-Volane,Aubenas,Privas(arrondissement dePrivas,département
del'Ardèche);.: "
Italy:-
-leRegioniMarche,Umbria,Abruzzi,Molise,Campania,Puglia,Basilicat
•Calabria,Sardegna,Sicilia
e ■.
leProvincielimitrofeGrosseto,Viterbo,Rieti,Prosinone ,,
Netherlands
-deprovinciesGroningeh,Friesland,Drenthe
en
deaangrenzende gemeenten'Kuirire,Blankenham ,Oldmarkt,Steenwijkerwold,
Steenwijk,;Giethoorn,Blokzijl,•Vollenhoven ,Wanneperveen ,Grambergen ,
Avereest,-Ommen,DenHam,Hardenberg ,Vriezenveen .
Article2■
Thefollowingzonesaredesignatedpriorityagricultural regionswithin
themeaningofCouncilRegulation (EEC)n°„„........of.........

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Belgium
-hetarrondissement Eaklo,
-dearrondissementen Veurne,Diksmuide ,leper.
Germany(situationoftheKreisfreienStSdteetLandkreiseon27May
I970):
-dieLandkreiseWarburg,Hofgeismar ,Wolfhagen ;
-dieLandkreiseZiegenhain ,Alsfeld;
-diekreisfreien StSdteKitzingenRothenburgo.d.T.unddieLandkreise
Gerolzhofen ,Kitzingen,Scheinfeld ,Ochsenfurt ,Uffenheim,Mergentheim ,
Rothenburgovd.T.,Crailsheim ,SchwäbischHall;
-dieLandkreiseHilpoltstein ,Beilngries ,Parsberg,Riedenburg ,,
Luxemburg :
-lescantonsdeClervaux,Wilz,Vianden,Redangeetlescommunes
Hoscheid,Bourscheid ,Feulen,Mertzig.
Article3
TheCouncil,actingonaproposalfromtheCommission ,shallreviewthis
Régulationbefore1July°1974 ■
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^ I
Article4
ThisRegulationshallenterintoforceonthethirddayfollowingits
publicationintheOfficialJournaloftheEuropeanCommunities .
ThisRegulationshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicable
inallMemberStates.
neat.........,.. FortheCouncil
ThePrésident

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