DECLARATION ( No 26 )
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 none the less 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.

DECLARATION ( No 33 )
on disputes between the ECB and the EMI and their servants

The Conference considers it proper that the Court of First Instance should hear this class of action in accordance with Article 168a of the Treaty establishing the European Community. The Conference therefore invites the institutions to adapt the relevant rules accordingly..

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