No L 60/64 Official Journal of the European Communities 1. 3. 97 COMMISSION DECISION of 13 February 1997 amending the boundaries of the mountain and hill areas in France within the meaning of Council Directive 75/268/EEC (Only the French text is authentic) (97/158/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 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 ('), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in par- ticular Article 2 (3) thereof, Whereas Council Directive 75/271/EEC (%), as last amended by Commission Decision 93/238/EEC (*), iden- tifies the areas in France defined as mountain and hill areas within the meaning of Article 3 (3) of Directive 75/268/EEC and the specific criteria which resulted in their being so defined; Whereas the French Government notified the Commis- sion, in accordance with Article 2 (1) of Directive 75/268/EEC of new areas likely to be included on the Community list of mountain and hill areas and informa- tion on the characteristics of these areas; whereas, further- more, the special aid scheme existing in the mountain and hill areas will be extended to the new areas; Whereas, as the above notification indicates, the areas meet the criteria and indices in Council Directive 76/401/EEC (*) used to identify the areas covered by Article 3 (3) of Directive 75/268/EEC; whereas the said areas should therefore be included in the Community list of mountain and hill areas within the meaning of Article 3 (3) of Directive 75/268/EEC; () OJ No L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 1. () O] No L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 33. () O] No L 108, 1. 5. 1993, p. 134. () O] No L 108, 24. 4. 1976, p. 22. Whereas these amendments do not increase the utilized agricultural area of the less-favoured areas by more than 1,5 % of the utilized agricultural area of France; Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Agri- cultural Structures and Rural Development, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 The Community list of mountain and hill areas of France, which appears in the Annex to Directive 75/271/EEC, is hereby supplemented by the list in the Annex to this Decision. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the French Republic. Done at Brussels, 13 February 1997. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission