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COMMISSION DECISION
of 29 June 1988
concerning the areas referred to in Article 3 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 328/88 instituting a Community programme to assist the conversion of steel areas (Resider)
(Only the English text is authentic)
(88/444/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 328/88 of 2 February 1988 instituting a Community programme to assist the conversion of steel areas (Resider programme) (1), and in particular Article 3 (2) thereof,
Whereas Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 328/88 provides that the Community programme shall apply to those areas which meet the criteria laid down in Article 3 (1) and the thresholds laid down in Article 4 (1) of that Regulation;
Whereas the areas likely to be eligible to benefit from the Community programme must be the subject of an application by the Member State in question; whereas the United Kingdom has submitted such an application to the Commission;
Whereas the employment basin comprising the county of South Yorkshire (including the travel-to-work area of Sheffield) and the travel-to-work area of Scunthorpe in the counties of Humberside and Lincolnshire conforms to the abovementioned criteria and thresholds,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
1. The employment basin comprising the county of South Yorkshire (including the travel-to-work area of Sheffield) and the travel-to-work area of Scunthorpe in the counties of Humberside and Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom satisfies the criteria stated in Article 3 (1) and the thresholds stated in Article 4 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 328/88. The Community programme instituted by the Regulation in question shall therefore apply to that area.
2. The references to travel-to-work areas in paragraph 1 are to those areas as constituted on 27 September 1984.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom.
Done at Brussels, 29 June 1988.

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