12. 11. 97 Official Journal of the European Communities L 308/105 COMMISSION DECISION of 12 June 1997 on the approval of the single programming document for Community structural assistance in the region of Plymouth concerned by Objective 2 in the United Kingdom (Only the English text is authentic) (971717/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 European 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 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3193/94; whereas however the last subparagraph of Article § (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 Article 10 (1) last subparagraph of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 foresees that in that case the Commission adopt a single 1) OJ L 374, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1. (') O] () OJ L 337, 24. 12. 1994, p. 11. (*) OJ L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 9. 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 2,293 million of the corresponding single programming document covering the period 1994 to 1996, pursuant to Commission Decision C(96) 3679 of 17 December 1996; Whereas the United Kingdom Government has submitted to the Commission on 2 August 1996 the single programming document as referred to in Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 for the region of Plymouth; whereas this document contains the elements referred to in Article 9 (8) of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 and in Article 14 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88; whereas expenditure under this single programming document is eligible as from that date; Whereas the single programming document submitted by this Member State includes a description of the conversion priorities selected and the applications for assistance from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF) as well as an indication of the planned use of the assistance available from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the other financial instruments in implementing the single programming document; (*) OJ L 193, 3. 8. 1996, p. 54. (5) OJ L 192, 2. 8. 1996, p. 29.