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Document 11992M/AFI/DCL/26
Treaty on European Union - Declaration on the outermost regions of the Community
Treaty on European Union - Declaration on the outermost regions of the Community
Treaty on European Union - Declaration on the outermost regions of the Community
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11992M/AFI/DCL/26
Treaty on European Union - Declaration on the outermost regions of the Community
Official Journal C 191 , 29/07/1992 P. 0104
DECLARATION on the outermost regions of the Community The Conference acknowledges that the outermost regions of the Community (the French overseas departments, Azores and Madeira and Canary Islands) suffer from major structural backwardness compounded by several phenomena (remoteness, island status, small size, difficult topography and climate, economic dependence on a few products), the permanence and combination of which severely restrain their economic and social development. It considers that, while the provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Community and secondary legislation apply automatically to the outermost regions, it is nonetheless possible to adopt specific measures to assist them inasmuch and as long as there is an objective need to take such measures with a view to the economic and social development of those regions. Such measures should have as their aim both the completion of the internal market and a recognition of the regional reality to enable the outermost regions to achieve the average economic and social level of the Community.