2007/190/EC: Commission Decision of 26 March 2007 amending Decision 2006/769/EC drawing up the list of regions and areas eligible for funding from the European Regional Development Fund under the cross-border and transnational strands of the European territorial cooperation objective for the period 2007 to 2013 as concerns Bulgaria and Romania (notified under document number C(2007) 1284)
Date: 2007-03-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, European Regional Development Fund, Romania, cross-border cooperation, eligible region, frontier region

L 87/16

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Official Journal of the European Union

28.3.2007

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 March 2007

amending Decision 2006/769/EC drawing up the list of regions and areas eligible for funding from
the European Regional Development Fund under the cross-border and transnational strands of the
European territorial cooperation objective for the period 2007 to 2013 as concerns Bulgaria and
Romania

(notified under document number C(2007) 1284)

(2007/190/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Decision 2006/769/EC is amended as follows:

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 of 11
July 2006 laying down general provisions for the European
Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and
the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No
1260/1999 (1), and in particular Article 7 thereof,

1. Annex I is amended as follows:

(a)

the following entries are inserted after the entry ‘BE353
Arr. Philippeville’:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

eligible

and areas

By Commission Decision 2006/769/EC (2) a list of
from the
regions
European Regional Development Fund under the cross-
border and transnational strands of the European terri-
torial cooperation objective for the period 2007 to 2013
was established.

funding

for

Following the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, regions
and areas from those Member States should be added to
the list of regions and areas eligible for funding from the
European Regional Development Fund under the cross-
border and transnational strands of the European terri-
torial cooperation objective.

The measures provided for
accordance with the opinion of
Committee of the Funds.

in this Decision are in
the Coordination

Decision 2006/769/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

For reasons of clarity and legal certainty, this Decision
should apply from the date of accession of Bulgaria and
Romania,

‘BG311
BG312 Montana

Vidin

BG313

Vratsa

BG314

Pleven

BG321

Veliko Tarnovo

BG323

Ruse

BG325

Silistra

BG332

Dobrich

BG413

Blagoevgrad

BG422

Haskovo

BG424

BG425

Smolyan
Kardzhali’;

(b) the following entries are inserted after the entry ‘PT184

Baixo Alentejo’:

Bihor

‘RO111
RO115

RO223

Satu Mare
Constanța
Călărași
RO314 Giurgiu

RO312

RO317

Teleorman

RO411 Dolj
RO413 Mehedinți
RO414 Olt

RO421 Arad

RO424

Timiș’.

(1) OJ L 210, 31.7.2006, p. 25. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1989/2006 (OJ L 411, 30.12.2006, p. 6).

(2) OJ L 312, 11.11.2006, p. 47.

2. In Annex II, the list of areas under the heading ‘SOUTH

EAST EUROPE’ is amended as follows:

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(a)

the following entries are inserted before the entry ‘GR11
Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki’:

‘BG31
BG32

BG33

BG34

BG41

BG42

Severozapaden

Severen tsentralen

Severoiztochen

Yugoiztochen

Yugozapaden
Yuzhen tsentralen’;

(b) the following entries are inserted after the entry ‘AT34

Vorarlberg’:

‘RO11 Nord-Vest
RO12

Centru

RO21 Nord-Est

RO22

Sud-Est

RO31

Sud-Muntenia

RO32

RO41

RO42

București-Ilfov
Sud-Vest Oltenia
Vest’.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply from the 1 January 2007.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 26 March 2007.

For the Commission

Danuta HÜBNER
Member of the Commission