No C 254/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 9. 88 
Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 
428/87 of 9 February 1987 
COM(88) 487 final 
(Submitted by the Commission on 16 September 1988) 
(88/C 254/07) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of Parliament, 
Whereas by Council Regulation (EEC) No .. 788 
Burma has been added to the countries eligible under the 
system of compensation for loss of export earnings for 
least-developed countries not signatory to the third 
ACP-EEC Convention; 
Whereas, because of the considerable rise in the fore­
seeable cost of the system as a result of the decision to 
include Burma amongst the beneficiaries, the 
Commission proposes that the Council amend Article 4 
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 428/87 concerning the 
estimated budgetary cost, without prejudice to the application of Article 5 of that Regulation in respect of 
budgetary procedure, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 428/87 is hereby 
amended as follows: 
'The estimated budgetary cost of implementing the 
system pursuant to Article 1 should not exceed 65 
million ECU for the five-year period from the 
financial year 1987 to the financial year 1991.' 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of 
the European Communities. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 80/779/EEC on air quality limit values 
and guide values for sulphur dioxide and suspended particulates 
COM(88) 436 final 
(Submitted by the Commission on 20 September 1988) 
(88/C 254/08) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 130s 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee, 
Whereas the European Communities' 1973 (»), 1977 (2), 
1983 (3) and 1987 (4) action programmes on the en-
(') OJ No C 112, 20. 12. 1973, p. 1. 
(2) OJ No C 139, 13. 6. 1977, p. 1. 
(J) OJ No C 46, 17. 2. 1983, p. 1. 
(4) OJ No C 328, 7. 12. 1987, p. 1. vironment put the accent on harmonization of the action 
taken to protect the environment and on the need to 
reduce the concentrations of the principal pollutants in 
the air to levels considered acceptable for protecting 
sensitive ecosystems; 
Whereas Council Directive 80/779/EEC (*), as last 
amended by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, 
offers a choice between two methods of sampling and 
analysis and two sets of associated limit values; 
Whereas Article 10 (4) of the abovementioned Directive 
requires the submission between July 1987 an July 1988 
of proposals on this parallel application of two different 
sets of measurement methods and limit values; 
(*) OJ No L 229, 30. 8. 1980, p. 30.