Regulation 1983/1739 - Exceptional Community measure to promote urban renewal in Northern Ireland (Belfast) - Main contents

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Legal instrument	Regulation
Number legal act	Regulation 1983/1739
Original proposal	COM(1983)163
CELEX number i	31983R1739

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Council Regulation (EEC) No 1739/83 of 21 June 1983 introducing an exceptional Community measure to promote urban renewal in Northern Ireland (Belfast)

Official Journal L 171 , 29/06/1983 P. 0001 - 0003

Spanish special edition: Chapter 14 Volume 1 P. 0056

Portuguese special edition Chapter 14 Volume 1 P. 0056

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1739/83

of 21 June 1983

introducing an exceptional Community measure to promote urban renewal in Northern Ireland (Belfast)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),

Whereas Northern Ireland is one of the peripheral regions of the Community experiencing particularly serious structural problems; whereas it therefore benefits, at both national and Community levels, from priority treatment and from a number of specific measures in various fields;

Whereas the European Parliament, in its resolution of 19 June 1981 (4), has emphasized the steadily deteriorating social and economic situation in this region and drawn particular attention, in the reports on which that resolution is based, to the poverty and low incomes, the housing and health conditions of the population, particularly in Belfast, the unemployment and underemployment, and the energy supply conditions in this region;

Whereas the United Kingdom Government has presented to the Commission details of a series of related investment projects which are important for the development and urban renewal of the Belfast area;

Whereas other infrastructure investment projects are also necessary for urban renewal; whereas the volume of national expenditure allocated each year to infrastructure contributing to urban renewal in Northern Ireland is not sufficient for investment projects to be completed at a rate commensurate with the needs either of the region or of Belfast;

Whereas the budget authority has entered, in item 5411 of the general budget, appropriations for 'Community measures in the framework of integrated operations';

Whereas an exceptional Community measure to promote urban renewal in the Belfast area, in addition to the possibilities currently afforded by the existing financial instruments, would make a contribution, together with all the specific measures undertaken in Northern Ireland, to the efforts needed to bring about a steady improvement in the situation in that region, provided that all the investment projects are carried out with due dispatch,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

An exceptional Community measure to promote urban renewal in Northern Ireland, hereinafter referred to as 'the measure', is hereby introduced for the Belfast area.

Article 2

The measure shall consist of the joint financing, by the Community and the public authorities in Northern Ireland, of infrastructure investment projects contributing to urban renewal in the Belfast area.

Article 3

The infrastructure projects which the Community may help to finance shall be chosen from a list to be submitted each year by the United Kingdom, accompanied by all the information necessary for the assessment of each project, such as its nature, characteristics and location, the authority responsible, the total cost, the financing arrangements, the schedule of work and expenditure and any other relevant details.

The Commission may request any additional information concerning any of the projects on the list.

Article 4

In order to qualify for a Community contribution under this Regulation, infrastructure projects must satisfy the following conditions:

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  they must not have been completed at the time the list referred to in Article 3 is submitted,

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  they must involve...

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