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Council Regulation (EEC) No 216/84 of 18 January 1984 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2616/80 instituting a specific Community regional development measure contributing to overcoming constraints on the development of new economic activities in certain zones adversely affected by restructuring of the steel industry

Official Journal L 027 , 31/01/1984 P. 0009 - 0014

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 216/84 of 18 January 1984 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2616/80 instituting a specific Community regional development measure contributing to overcoming constraints on the development of new economic activities in certain zones adversely affected by restructuring of the steel industry

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 724/75 of 18 March 1975 establishing a European Regional Development Fund (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3325/80 (2), and in particular Article 13 (3) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (3),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (4),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (5),

Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 724/75 (hereinafter referred to as "the Fund Regulation") provides, independently of the national allocation of resources fixed by Article 2 (3) (a) of that Regulation, for participation by the Fund in financing specific Community regional development measures which are in particular linked with Community policies and with measures adopted by the Community, in order to take better account of their regional dimension or to reduce their regional consequences;

Whereas, pursuant to that Article, the Council adopted on 7 October 1980 an initial series of Regulations instituting specific Community regional development measures and, in particular, Regulation (EEC) No 2616/80 (6) instituting a specific Community regional development measure contributing to overcoming constraints on the development of new economic activities in certain zones adversely affected by restructuring of the steel industry, this measure being hereinafter referred to as "the specific measure";

Whereas, pursuant to that Regulation and in particular Article 3 thereof, the Commission has approved special programmes relating to certain zones in Belgium and the United Kingdom and has at the same time decided to allocate appropriations to those programmes;

Whereas the worsening problems in the steel industry require that the specific measure be extended to new zones in the United Kingdom, in France, in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ; whereas the Member States concerned have provided the Commission with information relating to regional problems which would be a suitable subject for a specific Community measure;

Whereas, in addition, the presence of excess capacity in the steel industry is one of the basic causes of difficulties in this sector and the effort to reduce capacity which must be undertaken in accordance with the "General objectives for steel" defined by the Commission is likely to affect regional employment;

Whereas, by Commission Decision No 2320/81/ECSC of 7 August 1981 establishing Community rules for aids to the steel sector (7), it was laid down that aids to the steel industry can be considered as compatible with the orderly functioning of the common market provided that "the recipient undertaking or group of undertakings is engaged in the implementation of a systematic and specific restructuring programme" and "the said restructuring programme results in an overall reduction in the production capacity of the recipient undertaking or group of undertakings";

Whereas the Commission must rule on the requests concerning...

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