CELEX: 51988PC0141
Language: en
Date: 1988-04-15
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ON FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR PORTUGAL FOR A SPECIFIC INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ( PEDIP )

7. 5. 88                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                No C 120/9
             Proposal for a Council Regulation on financial support for Portugal for a specific industrial
                                             development programme (PEDIP)
                                                    COM(88) 141 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 22 April 1988)
                                                       (88/C 120/11)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         Whereas, in respect of the measures included in the
                                                                 PEDIP, with the exception of vocational training
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            measures, the Treaty contains no specific powers
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 128 and           required,
235 thereof,
Having regard to Council Decision 63/266/EEC of                  HAD ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
2 April 1963 laying down general principles for
implementing a common vocational training policy ('),
and in particular the tenth principle thereof,                                               Article 1
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,               Financial assistance from the Community budget for
                                                                 implementation of the PEDIP shall be provided, over
Having regard      to  the  opinion    of   the   European       and above support from the structural Funds, by means
Parliament,                                                      of additional resources established in the annual budget
                                                                 procedure.
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee,
                                                                 These additional resources shall be used in accordance
                                                                 with this Regulation.
Whereas a specific programme for the development of
Portuguese industry (hereinafter referred to as 'PEDIP')
has been prepared, in close collaboration between
Portugal and the Commission, which contains a set of                                         Article 2
measures, including vocational training measures,                The additional resources referred to in Article 1 shall be
designed to promote such development;                            used to implement the PEDIP by contributing to:
Whereas the PEDIP should help to achieve the
Community's objectives concerning economic and social            — faster improvement of basic industrial infrastructure
cohesion, by identifying four priority areas for the devel-          (priority area number 1),
opment of Portuguese industry;
                                                                 — stronger foundations for basic and further vocational
Whereas the European Council meeting in Brussels on                  training facilities for careers in industry (priority area
 12 and 13 February 1988 endorsed the principle of                   number 2),
Community assistance for the PEDIP, and whereas the
Europen Council agreed on the principle of allocating to
the PEDIP, over and above support from the structural            — the financing of productive investment (priority area
Funds and Community loans, additional budgetary                      number 3),
resources amounting to 500 million ECU for the period
from 1988 to 1992;                                               — productivity tasks (priority area number 4),
Whereas provisions should be laid down for the use of
these additional resources;                                      either separately, or to supplement measures by one or
                                                                 more of the structural Funds, in order to support
Whereas, in order to simplify management of these                measures falling within at least one of these priority
resources, which should be made the responsibility of the        development areas.
Commission, the Commission should be able to apply the
appropriate measures in respect of the rates of
Community assistance, the procedures for                the      When allocating resources, priority shall be given to
commitment, payment, and recovery of Community                   projects falling within areas 3 or 4.
assistance, and the monitoring of the measures for which
assistance has been allocated;
                                                                                             Article 3
                                                                 On the basis of consultation between Portugal and the
O OJ No 63, 20. 4. 1963, p. 1338/63.                             Commission:
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1. Portugal shall submit to the Commission applications                                    Article 5
   for financial support from the Community for the
                                                                 Measures funded under this Regulation shall be in
   measures referred to in Article 2. These applications
                                                                 conformity with the Treaties and with the acts adopted
   shall be accompanied by all the information needed to
                                                                 pursuant thereto and with the objectives of Community
   check that the measures are in conformity with this
                                                                 policies, in particular as regards the competition rules,
   Regulation, with the objectives of the PEDIP and
                                                                 the award of public contracts and the protection of the
   with Community policies, and by the financial
                                                                 environment.
   estimates and indicative timetables for carrying out
   the work and effecting the corresponding payments.
                                                                                            Article 6
2. The Commission shall examine the applications in              The Commission shall be kept constantly           informed
   order to check that they are in conformity with this          of the implementation of the measures             receiving
   Regulation and shall decide on the grant of the               Community assistance under the PEDIP.
   additional resources referred to in Article 1.
                                                                 Portugal shall take all measures necessary to ensure that
Decisions concerning the grant of this assistance shall          the Commission receives such information and in order
be published in the Official Journal of the European             to facilitate monitoring by Portugal itself or implemented
Communities.                                                     on the basis of Articles 206 a and 289 of the Treaty.
                                                                 Monitoring may take the form of on-site inspections or
                         Article 4                               verifications.
For the management of the additional resources referred                                     Article 7
to in Article 1 and depending on the nature of the
measure, the Commission may apply the appropriate                The Commission shall send the Council a report on the
provisions concerning the rate of Community assistance,          implementation of this Regulation on 1 June 1990 for
the procedures for the commitment, payment and                   the preceding period and a final report on the PEDIP by
recovery of Community assistance and the auditing of             the end of 1993 at the latest. These reports shall include
the measures receiving this assistance.                          an account of all the development                 measures
                                                                 implemented, detail the expenditure incurred and assess
The rate of Community assistance to the selected                 their effects.
measures under the PEDIP may not exceed 75 °/o of the
total cost of the measure, whatever the form of the                                         Article 8
financial assistance.
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force the day following
                                                                 that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
The Community may cover 100 % of the total cost of                European Communities.
the preparatory studies, pilot measures and technical
assistance measures carried out upon the Commission's            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
initiative.                                                       directly applicable in all Member States.