No L 350/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 27. 12. 85 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3635/85 of 17 December 1985 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2617/80 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 shipbuilding industry - THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing. the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3634/85 of 17 December 1985 on the establishment of specific Community regional development measures in 1985 (') and in particular Article 1 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (2), Having vregard to the opinion of the European Parli- ament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas Article 48 of Council Regulation. (EEC) No 1787/84 of 19 June 1984 on the European Regional Development Fund () provides that, subject to the appli- cation of Article 45 of the said Regulation, Regulation (EEC) No 724/75(%), including Title III relating to specific Community measures, is repealed; whereas, however, Article 1 of Regulation (EECy No 3634/85 provndes that the Council may, until 31 December 19835, . in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 724/7S5, institute specific Community measures on the basis of proposals submitted by the Commission before 31 December 1984 ; Whereas the said Article 13 provides for participation by the Fund in financing specific Community regional deve- lopment measures which are in particular linked to Community policies and to measures adopted by the Community, in order to take better account of their regi- . onal 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 spec1f1c Community regional development measurs and, in particular, Regulation (EEC) No 2617/80() as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 217/84 (}), which insti- tuted a measure herginafter referred to as a specxflc measure’ ; Whereas pursuant to that Regulation and in particular Article 3 thereof, the Commission has approved special (") See page 6 of this Official Journal. (3 OJ No C 70, 18. 3. 1985, p. 1, and OJ No C 258, 10. 10. 1985, p. () OJ No C 229, 9. 9. 1985, p. 135 : ~() Opinion delivered on 25/26 September 1985 (not yet pu- blished in the Official Journal). () OJ No L 169, 28. 6. 1984, p. 1. () OJ No L 73, 21. 3. 1975, p. 1. () OJ No L 271, 15. 10. 1980, p. 16. () OJ No L 27, 31. 1. 1984, p. 15. programmes relating to certin zones, one of which is situ- ated in the Federal Republic of Germany, and has at the same time decided to allocate appropriations to those programmes ; Whereas the worsening problems in the shipbuilding industry requlre that the specific measure be extended to " certain zones in France and Italy as well as to other zones in the Federal Republic of Germany, which are charac- terized by a high dependency on the shipbuilding sector and by major job losses in this industry in recent years ; -whereas this development is likely to lead to a deteriora- tion of an already difficult socio-economic situation in ~ ‘those zones ; Whereas the Member States concerned have provided the Commission with information relating to regional problems which mxght be the subject of a specific’ measure ; Whereas additional financial resources are required to implement the specific measure as extended ; Whereas it is necessary for the Federal Republic of Germany . to submit to the Commission an adapted special programme and for the French Republic and the Italian Republic to submit to the Commission a special programme in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2617/80, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : - Article 1 Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2617/80 shall be replaced by the following : ‘Article 2 1. The specific measure shall apply to zones which in principle meet the following criteria : (a) a minimum number of jobs in the shipbuilding industry ; (b) industrial employment dependent in large measure on the shipbuilding industry ; () major job losses in the sh1pbu1ldmg industry in recent years ; (d) the social and economic situation in the region in which the zone concerned is situated. This situa- tion shall be assessed on the basis of the per capita gross domestic product and structural unemploy- ment ; (e) eligibility of the zone concerned for a national regional aid scheme.