19.7. 85 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 187/1 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 27 June 1985 concerning the Community list of less-favoured farming areas within the meaning of Directive 75/268/EEC (Ireland) (85/350/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Europcan Economic Community, Having regard to Council Directive 75/268/EEC of 28 April 1975 on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas (1), as last amended by Directive 82/786/EEC (2), and in particular Article 2 (2) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (3), Whereas Council Directive 75/272/EEC of 28 April 1975 concerning the Community list of less-favoured farming areas within the meaning of Directive 75/268/EEC (Ireland) (*), indicates which areas in Ireland are included in the Community list within the meaning of Article 3 (4) of Directive 75/268/EEC; Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (1) of Directive 75/268/EEC, the Government of Ireland has requested an extension, via a redefinition, of its less-favoured areas; whereas Directive 75/272/EEC should therefore be replaced by this Directive; 1 () OJ No L 128,19.5.1975,p. 1. (2) O] No 1. 327, 24. 11. 1982, p. 19. (3) O] No C 175, 15.7.1985. (*) OJ Nol 128,19.5.1975, p. 68. Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (1) of Directive 75/268/EEC, the Government of Ireland, has informed the Commission that it wishes a number of areas to be included in the Community list of less-favoured farming areas; whereas it has supplied information concerning the characteristics of the areas in question; Whereas the following criteria of the prescnce of infertile land, as referred to in Article 3 (4) (a) of Directive 75/268/EEC, were used to define each of the zones in question: percentage of ploughed area less than 7,8 % and a stocking rate of less than one adult bovine livestock unit per forage hectare; Whereas the concept of economic results of farming appreciably below average, as referred to in Article 3 (4) (b) of Directive 75/268/EEC, was defined in terms of family farm income per male farm worker not exceeding 80 % of the national average; Whereas low population density, as referred to in Article 3(4) (c) of Directive 75/268/EEC, was defined as not more than 27 inhabitants per square kilometre (national and Community averages being 49 and 163 inhabitants per square kilometre respectively); whereas the minimum percentage of the total working population engaged in agriculture is 30 %; Whereas the type and level of the abovementioned criteria used by the Government of Ireland to define the areas communicated to the Commission comply with the characteristics of less-favoured farming areus referred to in Article 3 (4) of Directive 75/268/EEC; Whereas the areas adjacent to and contiguous with the Western Region should form part of the Western Region within the meaning of this Directive,