20. 7. 94 Official Journal of the European Communities 43 COMMISSION DECISION of 22 November 1993 concerning the granting of assistance from the cohesion financial instrument to the project concerning the Franqueira-Alcantarilha pipeline in the Odelouca/Funcho system in Portugal No CF: 93/10/61/015 (Only the Portuguese text is authentic) (94/399/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Européan Community, . Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 792/93 of 30 March 1993 establishing a cohesion financial instrument (!), and in particular Article 8 (6) thereof, Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93 establishes a cohesion financial instrument to provide Community support for projects in the fields of the environment and trans-European transport infrastructure networks; Whereas pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93 certain provisions of Titles VI and VII of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 of 19 December 1988 concerning the provisions for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as regards coordination of the activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the European Investment Bank - and the other existing financial instruments (%), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2082/93 (%), are to apply, mutatis mutandis; . Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93 defines the types of measure for which the cohesion financial instrument may provide assistance; Whereas Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93- requires the Member States to ensure that adequate publicity is given to the operations of the financial instrument and that the measures which are described in Annex V to this Decision are undertaken; Whereas on 30 July 1993 Portugal submitted an application for assistance from the cohesion financial instrument for a project concerning the Franqueira- Alcantarilha pipeline in the Odelouca/Funcho system; Whereas that application concerns a project which is eligible under the terms of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93; 1 (') OJ No L 79, 1. 4. 1993, p. 74. () OJ No L 374, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No L 193, 31. 7. 1988, p. 20. -1, The Whereas the application for assistance contains all the information required by Article 8 (4) of the Regulation and satisfies the criteria set out in Article 8 (5) of the Regulation; Whereas the project is the result of measures taken in accordance with Article 130s of the Treaty; Whereas, pursuant to Article 9 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93, technically and financially discrete stages of the project have been identified for the purpose of granting assistance from the financial instrument; Whereas Article 1 of the Financial Regulation of the European Communities {(*), as  last  amended by Council Regulation (Euratom, ECSC, EEC) No 610/90 (°), states that the legal commitments entered into for measures extending over more than one financial year shall contain a time limit for implementation which must be specified to the recipient in due form when the aid is granted; Whereas pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation EEC No 792/93, the Commission and the Member State will ensure that there is evaluation and systematic monitoring of the project; Whereas the financial implementation provisions, monitoring and assessment are specified in Annexes III and IV to this Decision; whereas failure to comply with those provisions may result in suspension or reduction of the assistance granted pursuant to Article 9 (3) of that Regulation No 792/93 and provision foreseen in Annex VI Whereas all the other conditions laid down, have been complied with, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 Franqueira-Alcantarilha pipeline stage of project in the Odelouca/Funcho system situated in (*) OJ No L 356, 31. 12. 1977, p. 1. (’) O] No L 70, 16. 3. 1990, p. 1. '