20.7. 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 197/9 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1940/81 of 30 June 1981 on an integrated development programme for the Department of Lozére THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1), Whereas the general socio-economic situation in the department of Lozére is particularly unfavourable; whereas improvement of this situation requires that the available funds and measures should be brought together and implemented in an integrated manner; Whereas the Community has at its disposal sources of action arising from its financing possibilities, notably from the European Social Fund and from the European Regional Development Fund; whereas it is suitable, taking account of the situation in that region, to supplement these measures by the intervention of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund under a common measure within the meaning of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (2), as last amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3509/80 (3); Whereas the implementation of this common measure requires the combining, by way of adequate procedures, of the various means available within the context of an integrated development programme; Whereas, this programme is to be prepared by the French Republic; (1) OJ No C 85, 8. 4. 1980, p. 53. (2) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13. (*) OJ No L 367, 31. 12. 1980, p. 87. Whereas the preparation and implementation of such a programme in the region in question necessitates Community financial aid; Whereas there should be a Community financial contribution to certain measures vital for the implementation of the programme with the aim of improving agricultural structures, which are particularly deficient in the region concerned, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1. In order to improve working and living conditions in the Department of Lozére, a common measure within the meaning of Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 is hereby established to facilitate the implementation of an integrated development programme in that region. 2. The common measure shall involve the financial participation, subject to the rules and conditions laid down in Title I, of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guidance Section, hereinafter called ‘the Fund’, in the agricultural measures referred to in Title II required for the implementation of the integrated development programme described in Title I which has received a favourable opinion in accordance with Article 4 (3). 3. The conditions and limits laid down in Articles 13 (2) and 19 (2) and (3) of Council Directive 72/159/EEC of 17 April 1972 on the modernization of farms (4), as last amended by  Directive 81/528/EEC (°), and in Article 15 of Council Directive 75/268/EEC of 28 April 1975 on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas (¢), shall not apply to the measures included in this common measure. (*) O] No L 96, 23.4.1972, p. 1. (5) See page 41 of this Official Journal. (¢) OJ No L 128, 19.5.1975, p. 1.