21.7.97 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 192/1 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 24 March 1997 on the approval of the single programming document for Community structural assistance in the region of Aquitaine concerned by Objective 2 in France (Only the French text is authentic) (97/439/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 of 19 December 1988 laying down provisions for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as regards coordination of activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the FEuropean Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3193/94 (%), and in particular Article 10 (1) last subparagraph thereof, After consultation of the Advisory Committee on the Development and Conversion of Regions and the Committee pursuant to Article 124 of the Treaty, Whereas the programming procedure for structural assistance under Objective 2 is defined in Article 9 (6) to 9 (10) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 of 24 June 1988 on the tasks of the Structural Funds and their effectiveness and on coordination of their activities between themselves and with the operations of the European Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments (°), as last amended by Regulation (EC}) No 3193/94; whereas however the last (1) O] No L 374, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1. (2) O] No L 337, 24. 12. 1994, p. 11. () OJ No L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 9. subparagraph of Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 foresees that in order to simplify and to speed up programming procedures, Member States may submit in a single programming document the information required for the regional and social conversion plan referred to in Article 9 (8) of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 and the information required at Article 14 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88; whereas the last subparagraph of Article 10 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 foresees that in that case the Commission adopts a single decision in - a single document covering the points referred to in Article 8 (3) and the assistance from the Funds referred to in the last subparagraph of Article 14 (3); Whereas the Commission has established, by Decision 96/472/EC(*), the list of declining industrial areas concerned by Objective 2 for the programming period from 1997 to 1999; Whereas the global maximum allocation foreseen for the assistance of the Structural Funds for the present single programming document is composed of resources coming from the indicative allocation of Structural Fund commitment appropriations for the period 1997 to 1999 under Objective 2 resulting from Commission Decision 96/468/EC(°) and from unused appropriations of ECU 8450000 of the corresponding single programming document covering the period 1994 to 1996, pursuant to Commission Decision C (96) 3148 of 9 December 1996; () OJ No L 193, 3. 8. 1996, p. 54. (*) OJ No L 192, 2. 8. 1996, p. 29.