7.5.94 Official Journal of the European Communities 293 COMMISSION DECISION of 20 December 1993 concerning the grant of assistance from the cohesion financial instrument to the following project in Ireland: Ballinrobe sewerage (stage 1 and 1I) No CF: 93/07/61/027 (Only the English text is authentic) (94/255/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 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 under 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)s 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 (%) are to apply, mutatis mutandis; Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93 defines the types of measures 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 measures which are described in Annex V of this decision are undertaken; Whereas on 30 June 1993 Ireland has submitted an application for assistance from the cohesion financial instrument for the project Ballinrobe sewerage (stage 1 and II); Whereas that application concerns a project which is eligible under the terms of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93; (') OJ No L 79, 1. 4. 1993, p. 74. () O] No L 374, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1. Whereas the application for assistance contains all the information required by Article 8 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93 and satisfies the criteria set out in Article (3) and (5) of that Regulation; ’ Whereas the project will help achieve the objectives of Article 130 r of the Treaty concerning the environment; Whereas the project is the result of measures taken in accordance with Article 130 s 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 21 December 1977 applicable to the general budget 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 under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) 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 of this Decision; Whereas failure to comply with those provisions may result in suspension or reduction of the assistance granted under Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 792/93; Whereas all the other conditions laid down haveé been complied with, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 1. The project Ballinrobe sewerage (stage I and II) situated in Ireland as described in Annex I hereto is hereby approved for the period 1 January 1993 to 31 March 1994, (> O] NO L 356, 31. 12. 1977, p. 1. (*) O] No L 70, 16. 3. 1990, p. 1.