L 233/32 Official Journal of the European Communities 20. 8.98 COMMISSION DECISION of 28 July 1998 amending Decision 94/279/EC on the indicative allocation by Member States of the commitment appropriations from the Structural Funds for the agricultural part of Objective 5a except for those fields covered by Objective 1 as defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 for the period 1994 to 1999 (notified under document number C(1998) 2330) (Text with EEA relevance) (98/524/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to 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 Euro- pean Investment Bank and the other existing financial instruments ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 3193/94 (3, and in particular Article 12(4) thereof, Whereas, pursuant to Article 12(4) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88, the indicative allocation of the resources of the Structural Funds which may be committed between 1994 and 1999 for the agricultural part of Objective 5(a) which does not fall under Objective 1 was established by Commission Decision 94/279/EC (%), Whereas by the abovementioned Decision an amount of ECU 518 million, expressed in 1994 prices, was set aside from the total amount of ECU 5 149 million to ensure in particular that measures implemented before the entry into force of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2081/93 (*) are funded; whereas the amount set aside was furthermore intended to take into account the special circumstances which could come up in the context of the examination of financial forecasts to be presented by Member States; Whereas an amount of ECU 401 million has been used for funding measures implemented before the entry into force of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/93; whereas an amount of ECU 124,619 million, expressed in 1998 prices, from the total amount set aside in 1994, has not yet been allocated; Whereas by adopting Decision 96/388/EC (°), the Commission accepted the United Kingdom’s request to withdraw the application of measures under Council () OJ L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 9. () OJ L 337, 24. 12. 1994, p. 1. () OJ L 120, 11. 5. 1994, p. 50. () OJ L 193, 31. 7. 1993, p. 5. () OJ L 155, 28. 6. 1996, p. 58. Regulation (EEC) No 866/90 of 29 March 1990 on improving the processing and marketing conditions for agricultural products (°), recast by Regulation (EC) No 951/97 (’), in England from the 1 March 1996; whereas by this Decision commitment appropriations of ECU 182,318 million, expressed in 1998 prices, were released and surrendered to the Funds; whereas, consequently, the commitment appropriations initially allocated to the United Kingdom in 1994 have to be reduced by this amount; Whereas as a result of the above matter, a remaining sum amounting to ECU 306,937 million, expressed in 1998 prices, is available to be allocated from the Structural Funds for the agricultural part of Objective 5a, outside of Objective 1 and 6 regions; Whereas in the context of the update of expenditure forecasts for measures under Council Regulation (EC) No 950/97 (}) and during the monitoring of the implementa- tion of measures under Regulation (EC) No 951/57 a number of Member States identified financial needs for the implementation of these measures which exceed the initially estimated amounts; Whereas the requests of these Member States have been examined taking into account in particular three elements: the progress in implementation of the relevant measures within the current programming period, the availability of national co-financing, and the proof of sufficient absorption capacity for the additional financial resources; whereas this examination allowed the identi- fication of the needs for additional financial resources in the concerned Member States; Whereas Article 6(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 in conjunction with Article 26 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 (°) requires the evaluation of Community 91, 6. 4. 1990, p. 1. 142, 2. 6. 1997, p. 22. 142, 2. 6. 1997, p. 1. 374, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1. 0000 e i aliale