CELEX: 51984PC0715(01)
Language: en
Date: 1984-12-14
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 2617/80 INSTITUTING A SPECIFIC COMMUNITY REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT MEASURE CONTRIBUTING TO OVERCOMING CONSTRAINTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN CERTAIN ZONES ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY RESTRUCTURING OF THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY

18. 3 . 85                                 Official Journal of the E u r o p e a n Communities                               No C 70/1
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                                                             (Preparatory     Acts)
                                                       COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) N o 2 6 1 7 / 8 0 instituting a
               specific C o m m u n i t y regional development measure contributing to overcoming constraints on
              the development of new economic activities in certain zones adversely affected by restructuring
                                                       of the shipbuilding industry
                                                            COM(84)      715 final
                               (Submitted   by the Commission       to the Council      on 21 December      1984)
                                                               (85/C 70/01)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                   Whereas, pursuant to that Article, the Council adopted
                                                                           on 7 October 1980 an initial series of Regulations
                                                                           instituting specific C o m m u n i t y regional development
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                           measures and, in particular, Regulation (EEC) N o
Economic C o m m u n i t y ,
                                                                           2 6 1 7 / 8 0 ( 3 ), as amended by Regulation (EEC) N o
                                                                           2 1 7 / 8 4 ( 4 ), the measure instituted by that Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) N o 7 2 4 / 7 5                  being hereinafter referred to as 'the specific measure';
of 18 March 1975 establishing a E u r o p e a n Regional
Development F u n d ( ^ ) , as last amended by Regulation
                                                                           Whereas, pursuant to that Regulation, and in particular
(EEC) N o 3 3 2 5 / 8 0 ( 2 ), and in particular Article 13 (3)
                                                                           Article 3 thereof, the Commission has approved special
thereof,
                                                                           programmes relating to certain zones, amongst which are
                                                                           zones in the Federal Republic of G e r m a n y , and has at the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                         same time decided to allocate appropriations to these
                                                                           programmes;
Having regard        to    the    opinion    of   the   European
Parliament,                                                                Whereas the worsening problems in the shipbuilding
                                                                           industry require that the specific measure be extended to
                                                                           certain zones in France and Italy as well as to other zones
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social                    in the Federal Republic of G e r m a n y , which are
Committee,                                                                 characterized by a high dependency on the shipbuilding
                                                                           sector and by major job losses in this industry in recent
Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) N o 7 2 4 / 7 5                     years; whereas this development is likely to lead to a
provides, independently of the national allocations of                     deterioration of an already difficult socio-economic
resources fixed by Article 2 (3) (a) of that Regulation, for               situation in those zones;
participation by the Fund in financing                     specific
Community regional development measures which are, in
                                                                           Whereas the M e m b e r States concerned have provided the
particular, linked with C o m m u n i t y policies and with
                                                                           Commission with information relating to regional
measures adopted by the C o m m u n i t y , in order to take
                                                                           problems which would be a suitable subject for a specific
better account of their regional dimension or to reduce
                                                                           measure;
their regional consequences;
(M OJ N o L 73, 21. 3. 1975, p. 1.                                         (3) OJ No L 271, 15. 10. 1980, p. 16.
(2) OJ No L 349, 23. 12. 1980, p. 10.                                      (4) OJ No L 27, 31. 1. 1984, p. 15.
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Whereas additional financial resources are required to                including the canton of La Ciotat in the departement
implement the specific measure as so extended;                        of Bouches-du-Rhone;
Whereas it is necessary for the Federal Republic of                   In Italy:
Germany to submit to the Commission an adapted special                The provinces of Gorizia, Trieste and Palermo, as well
programme, and for France and Italy to present to the                 as the province of Genova with the exception of the
Commission a special programme in accordance with                     non-aided zone adjoining the province of Piacenza.'
Regulation (EEC) No 2617/80,
                                                                                           Article 2
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                  1.     The Federal Republic of Germany shall adapt the
                           Article 1                              special programme referred to in Article 3 of Regulation
                                                                  (EEC) No 2617/80 in accordance with the amendments
Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2617/80 is hereby                set out in Article 1 of this Regulation.
replaced by the following:
                                                                  2.     The adapted special programme shall be approved
     'Article 2                                                   by the Commission in accordance with Article 3 (6) of
                                                                  Regulation (EEC) No 2617/80.
     1.     The specific measure shall apply to zones which
    in principle meet the following criteria:                     3.     Without prejudice to Article 5 (4) of Regulation
                                                                 (EEC) No 2617/80, the amount of the Fund's assistance
    (a) a minimum number of jobs in the shipbuilding             to the special programme as adapted may not exceed the
           industry;
                                                                 amount fixed by the Commission at the time of approval
    (b) industrial employment dependent in              large    of the programme.
           measure on the shipbuilding industry;
    (c) major job losses in the shipbuilding industry in                                   Article 3
          recent years;
    (d) the social and economic situation in the region in       The duration of the special programmes to be presented
          which the zone concerned is situated. This             by France and Italy shall be five years from the 60th day
          situation shall be assessed on the basis of the per    following that of the entry into force of this Regulation.
          capita gross domestic product and structural           The duration of the adapted special programme referred
          unemployment;                                          to in Article 2 shall be extended for the same period.
    (e) eligibility of the zone concerned for a national
          regional-aid scheme.                                                             Article 4
    2.      The zones complying with the criteria referred       Expenditure arising from the special programme thus
   to in paragraph 1 shall be the following:                     adapted and from the special programmes to be
                                                                 submitted by France and Italy and which is incurred from
   In the United Kingdom:
                                                                 the date of entry into force of this Regulation, shall be
   The Strathclyde Region; the Counties of Cleveland,            eligible.
   Tyne and Wear and Merseyside; and the Belfast urban
   area;
                                                                                           Article S
   In the Federal Republic of Germany:
   The Arbeitsmarktregionen of Lubeck-Ostholstein and            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
   Bremen-Bremerhaven;                                           following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                 European Communities.
   In France:
   The zones covered by national regional aid schemes in         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
   the departements of Loire Atlantique and Var,                 directly applicable in all Member States.