CELEX: 51982PC0572
Language: en
Date: 1982-09-06
Title: AMENDMENTS TO THE PROPOSITION FOR A MODIFICATION OF THE COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) 724/75 CONCERNING THE CREATION OF A EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND, FOLLOWING CONSULTATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

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