No L 193/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 31.7.93 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2082/93 of 20 July 1993 amending Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 laying down 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 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Articles 130e and 153 thereof Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1), In éooperation with the European Parliament (%), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2081/93 (*) amends 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 (°); whereas Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 should therefore be amended (¢); - Whereas, under Article 3a of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88, the provisions of that Regulation governing the Structural Funds and the provisions necessary for the: coordination of the activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the other existing financial instruments apply to the financial instrument for fisheries guidance (FIFG); Whereas the coordination provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 should therefore be extended to the FIFG and to the cohesion financial instrument; whereas coordination through the Communities’ budgetary resources can also concern the measures accompanying the reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP), the framework programmes for research and technological development, the trans-European networks and the economic restructuring of the countries of central and eastern Europe; whereas the economic and social effectiveness of Community action depends on coherence, (") OJ No C 118, 28. 4. 1993, p. 33. (3) Opinion delivered on 22 June 1993 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Decision of 14 July 1993 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (3) OJ No C 201, 26. 7. 1993, p. 52. (Y) See page 5 of this Official Journal. (°)) OJ No L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 9. (¥) OJ No L 374, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1. particularly with the framework programmes for research and technological development and education and training programmes; Whereas the Member States should submit their - development plans as soon as possible in order not to delay the implementation of structural assistance from 1 January 1994; Whereas, in order to simplify and speed up programming procedures, there should be provision for the Commission to adopt simultaneously the Community support frameworks and the forms of assistance submitted largely in the form of a limited number of operational programmes at the same time as development plans; whereas for the same reason there should be provision for the plan and the application for assistance to be presented in a single document and for the Community support framework to be adopted and assistance granted through a single Commission decision; Whereas, in application of the principle of subsidiarity, and without prejudice to the Commission’s powers, particularly its responsibility for the management of the Community’s financial resources, implementation of the forms of assistance contained in the Community support frameworks should be primarily the responsability of the Member States at the appropriate territorial level according to the specific needs of each Member State; Whereas the principle of additionality and the criteria and procedures for its verification should be defined; Whereas measures of major importance to the Community undertaken at the initiative of the Commission have an important role to play in achieving the general objectives of Community structural action referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88; whereas such initiatives should primarily * promote cross-frontier, transnational and inter-regional cooperation and aid to the outermost regions, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity; Whereas, in order to increase the flexibility of Community structural assistance, there should be provision for assistance undertaken at the initiative of the Commission in the context of Objectives 1, 2 and 5 (b) to concern exceptionally areas other than those eligible under those Objectives; whereas the question of