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Amendments to the proposition for a modification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 
724/75 concerning the creation of a European Regional Development Fund, following 
consultation of the European Parliament (') 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 
149 of the EEC Treaty of 9 September 1982) 
Preamble and recitals 
Preamble and first seven recitals unchanged. 
After the third recital, take in the new recital 3 (a) 
'Whereas such coordination must also cover the 
regional consequences of both national and 
Community economic policies and in particular 
sectoral policies;' 
After the sixth recital, take in the new recital 6 (a) 
'Whereas concentration of the Fund's resources in 
regions with particularly serious structuxal problems 
O OJ No C 336, 23. 12. 1981, p. 60. can only fully contribute to the achievement of the 
objectives of Community regional policy if there is 
effective coordination between the Regional Fund 
and the other Community funds and financial 
instruments;' 
After the seventh recital, take in the new recital 7 (a) 
'Whereas assistance by the Fund is important for 
creating new jobs and protecting the level of 
employment, particularly in the home regions of the 
workers concerned;' 
No C 261/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 6. 10.82 
TITLE I 
COORDINATION OF REGIONAL POLICIES 
Article 1 
§3 — paragraph 3 becomes a new paragraph 3 (a) 
— add a new paragraph 3 (b) 
'(b) For the regions located near internal Community 
frontiers, the Member States concerned shall 
ensure transfrontier coordination of regional 
development and cooperation between the 
regional and local bodies involved.' 
Article 2 
§ 2 — modify as follows the text of paragraph 2 
'The Commission, working in close association 
with the Regional Policy Committee, shall prepare 
a periodic and up-to-date report on the situation 
and socio-economic changes in the regions of the 
Community and on national regional policies. To 
this end, Member States shall provide the 
Commission with the relevant information which 
should permit an analysis to be made of as far as 
possible comparable economic regions or sub-regions. 
This report shall be prepared at regular, two and a 
half year intervals, with every other report 
coinciding with the examination of the medium-
term economic policy programmes. On the basis of 
this report, the Council, acting on a proposal from 
the Commission and after consulting the European 
Parliament and the Economic and Social 
Committee, shall adopt the regional policy 
guidelines and priorities.' 
§ 3 — modify as follows the text of paragraph 3 (a) 
'Member States shall communicate to the 
Commission their regional development 
programmes, and any amendments thereto, for the 
regions and areas covered by a regional State aid 
scheme. Such programmes shall be prepared in 
accordance with the joint outline drawn up by the 
Economic Policy Committee (') and in the light of 
the Commission recommendation of 23 May 1979 
(2). They shall be indicative in nature and shall 
specify the objectives concerned and the practical 
measures to be applied. They shall be prepared in 
close ...' (retain the existing paragraph 3). 
§ 4 — modify as follows the text of paragraph 4 
which becomes paragraph 4 (a) 
'The Commission is analyzing the regional impact 
of the main common policies and essential 
measures which it proposes to the Council. It is 
informing the latter and the European Parliament of 
the way in . . .' (retain the existing paragraph 4). TITLE II 
GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE 
EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND 
Article 3 
— amend as follows the text of Article 3 
'The reduction and the prevention of regional imba­
lances and the elimination of backwardness in the 
weak regions must be among the main objectives of 
all the common policies. The European Regional 
Development Fund, hereinafter referred to as "the 
Fund", is intended to correct the principal imbal­
ances within the Community resulting in particular 
from agricultural preponderance, industrial change 
and structural underemployment.' 
Article 4 
§ 3 (b) — modify as follows the text of the first 
paragraph of 3 (b) 
'(b) specific Community regional development 
measures to assist regions particularly affected 
by: 
— recent and serious problems of industrial 
decline; 
— the effects of certain Community policies; 
— serious problems linked to their situation as 
frontier, peripheral or insular regions or to 
their depopulation. 
The assistance allotted to these measures may 
not exceed 20 % of the Fund's resources.' 
TITLE III 
COMMUNITY MEASURES TO ASSIST REGIONS 
EXPERIENCING ESPECIALLY SERIOUS STRUC­
TURAL PROBLEMS 
Chapter 1 
Geographical scope 
Article 6 
§ 1 — insert the phrase 'and after consulting the 
European Parliament' 
'The list of regions and zones referred to in Article 
4 (3) (a) may be revised by the Council, acting by a 
qualified majority on a proposal from the 
Commission and after consulting the European Par­
liament, in particular . . .' (retain the existing 
paragraph 1). 
§ 3 — insert a new paragraph 3 in Article 6 
'If the periodic report on the situation and socio­
economic changes in the regions shows that 
underdevelopment or decline in specific zones within 
the confines of the areas specified in Article 4 (3) (a) 
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has become relatively more acute, the Fund's resources 
shall he redeployed accordingly within the quotas 
established under Article 4 above.' 
Chapter 2 
Operational rules 
Article 7 
§2 — insert in Article 7 (2), the two following 
paragraphs: 
— Infrastructures to be financed under investment 
programmes shall be those infrastructures that 
contribute to the development of the region or 
the zone in which they are situated. 
— When fixing the overall annual endowment of 
the Fund, the Commission shall take account of 
the desirability of a progressive increase in the 
share of resources devoted to industrial craft and 
service investments. 
— Investments which also relate to agricultural infra­
structures must be coordinated with the various 
structural projects financed by the Guidance 
Section of the EAGGF.' 
Article 8 
§ 3 — modify as follows the text of points (a) and 
(g) of paragraph 3 
'(a) expected results, where possible in quantified 
form, particularly where they relate to the 
creation of jobs;' 
'(g) a statement of the environmental consequences 
to which the programme may give rise and of 
the measures envisaged to protect the 
environment in the regions or areas 
concerned;' 
Article 9 
§ 1 — modify the paragraph as follows: 
'1. Programmes that might qualify for assistance 
from the Fund shall be submitted to the 
Commission by the Member State in question. 
They shall be drawn up on the basis of close 
cooperation between the competent central and 
regional authorities.' 
Article 11 
§ 3 — replace '40 million ECU' by '50 million ECU' 
in paragraph 3. 
Article 12 
§ 1 — replace the first indent by the following text: 
'In the case of investment projects in industry, the 
craft sector or the services sectdr*, the amount of 
the Fund's contribution shall be equal to 20 % of 
the investment cost; it may not, however, exceed 
50 % of the aid granted to each project by the public authorities under a regional aid scheme' (the 
remainder of the line is deleted). 
— in the second indent take out the words 'It shall 
amount to 20 000 ECU per job created.' 
The new text becomes: 
'In the case of the services sector and the craft 
sector, the Fund's contribution will be 50 % of 
national aid.' 
— replace the fifth indent by the following text: 
'The Fund's contribution must be additional to 
the aid granted by the national public authorities 
for implementing the investment project whilst 
respecting competition rules. In all cases, the 
financial effort by the Member State in the 
relevant region must be increased by the amount 
of Community assistance.' 
§ 2 — replace '5 million ECU' by 7 million ECU' in 
paragraph 2. 
Article 13 
§ 1 — the former point (e) becomes point (g) 
add under new point (e) the following text: 
'(e) the elaboration of projects covering several 
regions which are not necessarily adjacent and 
belong to different Member States but which 
have a common interest in the investment being 
made;' 
— add as new point (f) the following text: 
'(f) backwardness and imbalances arising from the 
insular nature of the area in which the 
investment project is to be carried out;' 
§ 2 — replace '5 million ECU' by 7 million ECU' in 
paragraph 2. 
Article 14 
— Replace '5 million ECU' by 7 million ECU' in 
paragraphs 2, 3 and 5. 
Article 15 
§ 2 — After 'the nature and location of each project' 
add the words 'the name of the investor'. 
Article 16 
— Modify the text as follows: 
'The Fund shall contribute to the financing of 
operations aimed at exploiting the local development 
potential of regions eligible for aid. In doing so, the 
Fund shall operate within the framework of the 
programme contracts and the integrated operations 
outlined in Article 29 and, at the same time, operate 
independently. 
1. To this end, the Commission shall establish, 
through an implementing Regulation drawn up 
according to the procedure set out in Article 31, the 
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procedures for providing aid to small and medium-
sized undertakings in the industrial, agricultural and 
craft fields and in that of rural recreation, and 
notably those actions which concern: 
(a) the development of small and medium-sized 
firms through opening up access for them on 
the capital market; 
(b) financing the transfer of technology through 
operation aids for agencies compiling and 
disseminating information on product and 
technological innovations and for conducting 
feasability studies and projects permitting the 
introduction of these innovations in under­
takings. 
With the object of according preferential treatment to 
investments in the industrial, craft and service sectors, 
the Fund will reserve an amount equivalent to 3 % 
of its global endowment for the granting of interest 
rate subsidies. These subsidies apply to loans accorded 
by the European Investment Bank from its own 
resources, to Community loans from the New 
Community Investment for the promotion of 
investments. They are restricted to small and medium-
sized firms and are attributed according to criteria to 
be defined by the Commission. 
2. With the same end in view, the Fund may, in 
collaboration with the national and regional 
institutes responsible for aid and development, help to 
finance the following types of aid schemes: 
(a) aid for surveys which will make it easier to 
identify the possibilities for the local development 
of the regional zones which might qualify for 
fund assistance; 
(b) aid for sectoral and market studies with a view 
to providing fuller information on access to 
national, Community and external markets and 
to encourage the dissemination of information 
concerning the findings of such studies; 
(c) aid to increase the efficiency of undertakings 
by making it easier for them to obtain 
management and organizational advice; this aid 
shall cover the expenditure of undertakings 
relating to services provided by consultancy 
firms and bodies; 
(d) starting-up aids to facilitate the introduction of 
services to be used jointly by two or more 
undertakings and covering in part operating 
expenditure relating to the common services; 
(e) aid to promote more effective exploitation of 
regional potential in the field of rural tourism 
and related to a part of the operating expenses 
of agencies responsible for the promotion and coordinated management of tourist 
accommodation; 
(f) aid for setting up local institutes of applied 
research to further the indigenous development 
of the regions. 
3. The Fund shall provide assistance for the 
regional or local authorities in working out a 
programme and making the technical and financial 
preparations for, and in implementing, operations 
that might qualify for Fund assistance in the 
framework of actions described under Titles III 
and IV of this Regulation, as well as in improving 
the performance of the agencies called on to fulfil 
these tasks.' 
Article 25 
§ 1 — add to paragraph 1 a new second indent 
'Operations for which no payments have been made 
for four years and where no explanation of the delay 
has been provided by the Member State concerned 
within a period to be determined by the Commission, 
shall be regarded as operations which have not been 
carried out.' \ 
TITLE IV 
SPECIFIC COMMUNITY REGIONAL DEVELOP­
MENT MEASURES 
Article 27 
§ 2 — modify as follows the text of paragraph 2 
'The measures referred to in this Title may differ in 
whole or in part from the measures referred to in 
Title III. They shall be aimed at Community 
regions and zones particularly affected: 
— either by certain Community policies or by 
measures adopted by the Community in order 
to facilitate the implementation or to mitigate 
the regional consequences of these policies; 
— or by recent, serious problems of industrial 
decline; 
— or by serious problems linked to the absence of 
equal development on both sides of a frontier, or 
to their situation as a peripheral or insular region, 
or as a result of depopulation. 
These measures may not have as their object the 
internal reorganization of declining sectors but 
may, by establishing new economic activities and 
the implementation of new technology, promote 
the creation of employment in regions or areas 
experiencing difficulties. 
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These measures shall be financed jointly by the 
Community and by the Member State or States 
concerned.' 
TITLE V 
GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS 
Chapter 2 
Other provisions 
Article 31 (a) 
— add a new Article 31 (a) 
'The Commission shall make sure that account is 
taken of the situation and perspectives for female 
employment and the different age groups as far as 
statistics allow, — when drawing up the coordination instruments set 
out in Article 2 above and in particular in the 
regional development programmes and the reports 
on their implementation; 
— in the requests for assistance for programmes and 
investment projects; 
— in the Fund assistance decisions concerning these 
applications; 
— as well as in the drawing up of the report on the 
application of this Regulation set out in Article 
36.' 
Article 37: 
Replace '1 January 1982' by 'from the time of its 
entry into force'.