31.12.85 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 372/1 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3827/85 of 20 December 1985 adapting on account of the accession of Portugal and Spain, Regulations (EEC) No 797/85, (EEC) No 355/77, (EEC) No 1360/78 and (EEC) No 458/80 on agricultural structures THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal and in particular Articles 253, 258 (2), 263 (2) and 396 (2) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas Articles 253 and 263 of the Act of Accession provide for the application, from the date of accession, of Community rules in the socio-structural including those relating to producers’ associations, of the most favourable specific provisions existing at the date, in horizontal Community rules, to the least-favoured areas of the Community; whereas the said provisions should therefore be extended to the advantage of Portugal; Whereas the Joint Declaration on the application in Spain of Community socio-structural measures in the wine sector and provisions enabling the origin to be determined and the commercial movements of Spanish wines to be followed requires that Council Regulation (EEC) No 458/80 of 18 February 1980 on collective projects for the restructuring of vineyards (*) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1598/83 (*), should be applied to Spain under the same conditions as those laid down for the present Member States and, accordingly, that the estimated cost appearing in Article 9 of that Regulation should be adjusted; whereas, moreover, in order to make the latter Regulation applicable in Spain the areas which are specified in Article 8 (1) thereof should be adjusted; Whereas certain transitional provisions are required in order to ensure that the Community’s rules in the socio- structural field are applied from the date of accession and in order to fix the deadline by which the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic must comply with those rules; (*) OJ No L 57, 29. 2. 1980, p. 27. ¢ (*) OJ No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 53. field - Whereas in order to apply the said rules in Spain and Portugal the estimated cost which at present appears therein should be adjusted;- Whereas pursuant to Article 2 (3) of the Treaty of Accession of Spain and Portugal, the institutions of the Community may adopt, before accession, the measures referred to in Articles 253, 258, 263 and 396 of the Act of Accession, subject to and on the date of entry into force of that Treaty, - HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Council Regulation (EEC) No 797/85 of 12 March 1985 on improving the efficiency of agricultural structures (®) is hereby amended as follows: 1. The second subparagraph of Article 2 (1) (d) shall be replaced by the following: However, in the less-favoured areas determined in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of Directive 75/268/ EEC, the Hellenic Republic, the Italian Republic, as regards the Mezzogiorno, including the islands, and the whole territory of the Portuguese Republic shall be authorized to accept plans for improving holdings submitted during the first three years of duration of this common measure and, in the case of the Portuguese Republic, submitted during the first three years following the entry into force of the provisions implementing the measures provided for in Title I in Portugal, by holdings which do not satisfy the conditions laid down in this point, provided that the volume of work on the holding does not require more than the equivalent of one MWU and that the projected investments do not exceed 25 000 ECU. 2. The following sentence shall be added to the last subparagraph of Article 4 (2): ‘In the case of Portugal the period referred to above shall begin on the date of entry into force of the provisions implementing the measures specified in Title I in Portugal’ () OJ No L 93, 30. 3. 1985, p. 1.