78/995/EEC: Commission Decision of 23 November 1978 on approval of the programme to accelerate drainage operations in the less-favoured areas of the west of Ireland pursuant to Directive 78/628/EEC (Only the English text is authentic)

• CELEX: Directive 78/628/EEC
• Articles: 3

Article 1

The programme submitted by the Irish Government on 20 October 1978 for the acceleration of drainage in the west of Ireland pursuant to Directive 78/628/EEC is hereby approved.

Article 2

The Irish Government shall, before 1 May each year, report on the progress of the programme referred to in the preceding Article.

The report shall contain the following information: (a) Arterial drainage: - for each catchment area, length of the main rivers and tributaries, where deepening and widening has been completed,

- for each catchment area, length of the main rivers and tributaries where deepening and widening is in progress,

- number of hectares which have been drained by the arterial drainage schemes already completed,

- number of hectares which will be drained by the arterial drainage schemes still in progress. (1)OJ No L 206, 29.7.1978, p. 5.

(b) Field drainage: (1) Within the catchment areas: - number of hectares per catchment area which have been drained under the field drainage programme,

- of these, the number of hectares per catchment area which have been drained under group drainage schemes,

- number of farms per catchment area whose land has been drained under the field drainage programme,

- total cost of the field drainage operations still in progress per catchment area,

- total amount of aid granted per catchment area for field drainage operations still in progress,

- number of hectares per catchment area for which field drainage has been approved and where the field drainage operations have not yet been completed, and number of farms affected.

(2) Outside the catchment areas: - the same information as for field drainage within the catchment areas.

(3) Machinery: - number of agricultural cooperatives,

- total cost of machinery purchased by cooperatives,

- total aid paid to cooperatives for machinery purchases.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 23 November 1978.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President