Document ID: 31988D0319

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COMMISSION DECISION
of 4 May 1988
on the Guidelines for the Management of the European Social Fund in the financial years 1989 to 1991
(88/319/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Decision 83/516/EEC of 17 October 1983 on the tasks of the European Social Fund (1), as amended by Decision 85/568/EEC (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the European Social Fund,
Whereas the Commission adopts, before 1 May of each year and for the three following financial years, the Fund Management Guidelines for determining those operations which reflect Community priorities as defined by the Council, and in particular the action programmes in the area of employment and vocational training;
Whereas the Member States have been consulted;
Whereas the 1989 European Social Fund applications will be made before the entry into force of the regulation concerning the objectives of the structural funds, their efficiency and the coordination of their activities both between themselves and with those of the EIB and the other existing financial instruments;
Whereas it is necessary, subject to technical modifications, to keep the guidelines for the management of the European Social Fund for the financial years 1988 to 1990 in force for the financial years 1989 to 1991,
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
The Annex to Commission Decision 87/329/EEC of 29 April 1987 on the guidelines for the management of the European Social Fund in the financial years 1988 to 1990 (3) is changed as follows:
1. at point 1.1.2 '31 December 1987' is replaced by '31 December 1988';
2. at point 2.2 'The requirement for new technology shall not apply in 1988 for Spain' is deleted;
3. the list of areas of high and long-term unemployment and/or industrial and sectoral restructuring is changed as follows:
- the following areas are added:
France:
- Haute-Marne
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Maine-et-Loire
- Orne
- Puy-de-Dome
- Aisne within which the cantons of Catelet and of Bohain-en-Vermandois were already priority
- Meuse within which eastern areas were already priority
- Somme within which a few zones were already priority
Italy:
- Asti
United Kingdom:
- Dumfries and Galloway
- the following areas are deleted:
Belgium
- Bruxelles/Brussel
France
- Charente
- Correze
- Côtes-du-Nord
- Haute-Loire
- Marne
- Vaucluse
- Finistère without the area De Quimper
Italy
- Ancona
- Forli
- Pavia
- Piacenza
- Siena
- Venezia
- Pesaro e Urbino without the areas assisted
- Pistoia without the areas assisted
The Netherlands
- Zuid-Limburg
United Kingdom
- Cheshire
Article 2
The guidelines for the Management of the European Social Fund in the financial years 1989 to 1991 are annexed to the present Decision.
Done at Brussels, 4 May 1988.

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