CELEX: 12006E/PRO/12
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-29 00:00:00
Title: Treaty establishing the European Community (consolidated version)#D. Protocols annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community #Protocol (No 12) on Italy (1957)

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12006E/PRO/12

Treaty establishing the European Community (consolidated version) - D. Protocols annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community  - Protocol (No 12) on Italy (1957)  

Official Journal C 321 E , 29/12/2006 P. 0249 - 0249

		Protocol (No 12)on Italy (1957)THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES,DESIRING to settle certain particular problems relating to Italy,HAVE AGREED upon the following provisions, which shall be annexed to this Treaty:THE MEMBER STATES OF THE COMMUNITYTAKE NOTE of the fact that the Italian Government is carrying out a 10–year programme of economic expansion designed to rectify the disequilibria in the structure of the Italian economy, in particular by providing an infrastructure for the less–developed areas in southern Italy and in the Italian islands and by creating new jobs in order to eliminate unemployment;RECALL that the principles and objectives of this programme of the Italian Government have been considered and approved by organisations for international cooperation of which the Member States are members;RECOGNISE that it is in their common interest that the objectives of the Italian programme should be attained;AGREE, in order to facilitate the accomplishment of this task by the Italian Government, to recommend to the institutions of the Community that they should employ all the methods and procedures provided in this Treaty and, in particular, make appropriate use of the resources of the European Investment Bank and the European Social Fund;ARE OF THE OPINION that the institutions of the Community should, in applying this Treaty, take account of the sustained effort to be made by the Italian economy in the coming years and of the desirability of avoiding dangerous stresses in particular within the balance of payments or the level of employment, which might jeopardise the application of this Treaty in Italy;RECOGNISE that in the event of Articles 119 and 120 being applied it will be necessary to take care that any measures required of the Italian Government do not prejudice the completion of its programme for economic expansion and for raising the standard of living of the population.Done at Rome this twenty-fifth day of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.--------------------------------------------------