CELEX: 51986PC0627
Language: en
Date: 1986-11-19
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 355/77 ON COMMON MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERY PRODUCTS ARE PROCESSED AND MARKETED

N o C 320/10                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                13.12. 86
               Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 355/77 on common
               measures to improve the conditions under which agricultural and fishery products are processed
                                                            and marketed
                                                         COM(86) 627 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 November 1986)
                                                           (86/C 320/10)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                                                 Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and                 Article 17 (2) of Regulation (EEC) N o 355/77 is hereby
43 thereof,                                                           amended as follows:
                                                                      1. The second indent of point (a) is replaced by the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                        following:
                                                                          '— 25 % in the case of projects carried out in the
                                                                               Mezzogiorno, in the less favoured areas of the
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                              West of Ireland and in all regions of Ireland in
liament,                                                                       the case of projects relating to pigmeat, in all
                                                                               regions of Greece except Greater Athens, in
Whereas Article 17 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No                          Portugal and in the autonomous regions of
355/77 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) N o                            Galicia, Castilla y Leon, Castilla-la-Mancha,
2224/86 (2), provides that the rate of aid granted from                        Extremadura, in Andalucia the provinces of
the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee                               Granada and Huelva, in Aragon the provinces of
Fund for investment projects may vary according to the                         Huesca and Teruel, and the Canary Islands in
regional situation as regards facilities for the processing                    Spain.'
and marketing of agricultural products;
                                                                      2. The first indent of point (c) is replaced by the
                                                                          following:
Whereas rapid modernization of pigmeat processing and                     '— 50 % in the case of projects carried out in the
marketing undertakings in Ireland is hampered by                               Mezzogiorno, in the less favoured areas of the
serious structural handicaps stemming in particular from                       West of Ireland and in all regions of Ireland in
difficulties in the financing of investment in the modern-                     the case of projects relating to pigmeats, in all
ization and restructuring of this sector;                                      regions of Greece except Greater Athens, in
                                                                               Portugal, in the French overseas departments and
Whereas the conditions laid down in the Regulation                             in the autonomous regions of Galicia, Castilla
should accordingly be amended in order to deal more                            y Le6n, Castilla-la-Mancha, Extremadura, in
effectively with the problems of the pigmeat sector in                         Andalucia the provinces of Granada and Huelva,
Ireland; whereas in particular the granting of more aid                        in Aragon the provinces of Huesca and Teruel,
and a higher rate of contribution from the Guidance                            and the Canary Islands in Spain.'
Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and                                                Article 2
Guarantee       Fund     may       provide     the    necessary
encouragement for economic activities in those regions;               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                      following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                      European Communities.
Whereas this additional assistance must be limited in
time and must comply with the financial arrangements                  It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1987.
applicable to common measures introduced by Regu-                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
lation (EEC) No 355/77,                                               directly applicable in all Member States.
(») OJ No L 51, 23. 2. 1977, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 194, 17. 7. 1986, p. 4.