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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION 
OBJECTIVE 5(a) 
Indicative breakdown by Member Stat» of commitment appropriations 
from the Structural Funds 
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THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY 
informs 
the COUNCIL, 
the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT and 
the COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS 
of its Decision of 26 April 1994 No 94/279/EC, published in OJ No L 120 
of 11.5.94, p. 50, establishing the indicative allocation by Member State of 
the commitment appropriations from the Structurel Funds for the agricultural 
part of Objective 5(a) except for those fields covered by Objective 1 as 
defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 for the period 1994-99. 
This Decision was notified to the Member States on 28 April 1994. 
An explanatory note is attached for information. 
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OBJECTIVE 5(a) 
Indicative breakdown toy Member State of commitment appropriations 
from "the Structural! Funds 
1* Introduction 
Article 12(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as amended states that 
"Objective 5(a) except for those fields covered by Objective 1 shall 
receive an allocation abased principally on continuity related to the degree 
of utilization of resources during the preceding programming period and on 
the specific structural needs of agriculture and fisheries as they are 
perceived." 
2. Total available funds 
On 21 December 1993 the Commission decided on the breakdown of 
appropriations from the Structural Funds between Objectives 2 to 5. The 
funds for Objective 5(a) for agriculture, except for those fields covered 
by Objective 1, amount to ECU 5 285 million at 1992 prices, or 
ECU 5 597 million at 1994 prices. They break down into two subtotals as 
follows: 
Objective 5(a) except for those fields covered by Objectives 1 and 
5(b): ECU 3 200 million at 1992 prices, or ECU 3 389 million at 1994 
prices, 
Objective 5(a) in 5(b) areas: ECU 2 085 million at 1992 prices, or 
ECU 2 206 million at 1994 prices. 
It was necessary to break the appropriations down into two subtotals to 
show in budgetary terms the difference in the way the European Council 
treated the two sub-objectives. Commitments for Objective 5(a) except for 
those regions covered by Objectives 1 and 5(b) should not increase in real 
terms whereas commitments in 5(b) areas could rise. 
The allocation by Member State is carried out on the basis of the overall 
amounts for that Objective (in 5(b) areas and outside regions covered by 
Objectives 1 and 5(b)|, as provided for moreover in Article 12(4) of the 
abovementioned Regulation. After the 8% for Community initiatives is 
deducted, the amount actually available is ECU 5 149 million at 1994 
prices. However, ECU 518 million must be set aside for certain measures 
undertaken in 1993 on the basis of the former financing system (estimated 
at ECU 418 million) and to take account of specific circumstances which may 
arise during consideration of the financial estimates to be presented by 
the Member States, in particular following the review of Regulation (EEC) 
No 2328/91 which the Council undertook to conduct in 1994. The remaining 
amount, i.e. ECU 4 631 million expressed in terms of commitment 
appropriations for the period 1994-99, breaks down as follows: 
V (ECU million at 1994 prices) 
B 170 
DK 127 
D 1 068 
E 326 
F 1 742 
I 680 
h 39 
NL 118 
UK 361 
TOTAL 4 631 
3. Method applied 
The principles for allocating the appropriations as set out in 
Article 12(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as amended were reiterated in 
the introduction. It should be pointed out here that Objective 5(a) 
measures have one basic characteristic, namely continuity. As a 
consequence, the approach followed was: 
firstly to allocate to each Member State an amount corresponding to the 
continuation over six years of average annual expenditure recorded 
during the period 1991-93; this is in line with the desire to ensure 
continuity of measures under Objective 5(a). 1991-93 is the period 
during which the commitments under Objective 5(a) got fully under way 
after the 1988 reform of the Funds and it is therefore a representative 
reference. The total amount thus allocated amounts to 
ECU 4 255 million; 
to allocate the rest, i.e. ECU 376 million, on the basis of two 
socio-structural indicators characteristic of agriculture, namely 
employment (social dimension) and value added (economic dimension). The 
abovementioned amount is broken down into equal shares using the 
allocation formula for each indicator. 
The statistics used are the number of annual work units (AWU) in 
agriculture and gross value added at market prices in agriculture. The 
data used come from statistics compiled by EUROSTAT. However, as 
certain figures are missing, the best estimates are given for AWU in 
the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and value added in Belgium, 
Spain and the United Kingdom (except for Objective 1 regions). 
The calculations for the above are given in the Annex. 
OBJECTIVE 5(A) APPROPRIATIONS (EXCLUDING OBJECTIVE 1) 
1994-99 
(ECU million at 1994 prices) 
Mem­
ber 
I 
B 
DK 
D 
ES 
. F 
I 
L 
NL 
UK 
TO­
TAL Average 
expendi­
ture 
1991-1993 
2 
26,8 
19,0 
166,8 
Sl,l 
270,4 
99,2 
6,4 
15,6 
53,8 
709,1 Histori­
cal 
key 
3*2 as % 
3,78% 
2,68% 
23,52% 
7,21% 
38,13% 
13,99% 
0,90% 
2,20% 
7,59% 
100,00% Conti­
nuation 
over 
6 years 
4*2x6 yrs 
161 
114 
1.001 
307 
1.622 
595 
38 
94 
323 
4.255 Employment 
In agri­
culture 
(1.000 AWU) 
S 
89 
114 
851 
305 
1.453 
1.175 
7 
227 
469 
4.690 Key 
for 
employment 
6* 5 as % 
1,90% 
2,43% 
18,14% 
6,50% 
30,98% 
25,05% 
0,15% 
4,84% 
10,00% 
100,00% Breakdown 
of 
ECU 188m 
7 
4 
5 
34 
12 
58 
47 
0 
9 
1* 
188 Gross va­
lue added 
in agricul 
ture(BCUm) 
8 
2.259 
3.465 
14.298 
3.067 
26.758 
16.438 
117 
6.796 
8.396 
81.594 Key 
for gross 
value 
added 
9*8 as % 
2,77% 
4,25% 
17,52% 
3,76% 
32,79% 
20,15% 
0,14% 
8,33% 
10,29% 
100,00 Breakdown 
of 
ECU 
188m 
10 
S 
8 
33 
7 
62 
38 
0 
16 
19 
188 Total 
allo­
cated 
9*4+74-10 
170 
127 
1.068 
326 
1.742 
680 
39 
118 
361 
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