No L 195/72 Official journal of the European Communities - 23. 7. 88 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 18 July 1988 amending Directive 75/275/EEC concemmg the Community list of less-favoured farming areas within the meaning of Directive 75/268/EEC (Netherlands) (88/403/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 'Having regard to Council Decision 75/268/EEC of 28 April 1975 on mountain and hill farming and farming in certain less-favoured areas(!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 797/85 (3, and in particular Article 2 (2) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (%), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%) ; Whereas Directive 75/275/EEC (), as last amended by Commission Decision 87/462/EEC (¥), specifies the areas in the Netherlands which appear in the Community list of less-favoured areas within the meaning of Article 3 (5) of Directive 75/268/EEC; Whereas the Netherlands Government has requested, h pursuant to Article 2 (1) of Directive 75/268/EEC, an amendment to that list; Whereas the new areas to appear in the list comply with the criteria and the figures applied pursuant to Directive 75/275/EEC for ‘the purposes of determing the areas () OJ No L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 1. () OJ No L 93, 30. 3. 1985, p. 1. () OJ No C 109, 26. 4. 1988, p. 7. (¥ Opinion delivered on 17 June 1988 (not yet pubhshed in the Official Journal). ) () OJ No L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 229. (9 OJ No L 252, 3. 9. 1987, p. 21. concerned within the meaning of Article 3 (5) of Directive 75/268/EEC; Whereas, moroever, the aggregate total area concerned does not exceed 4% of the entire area of the Netherlands, ' HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 The Annex to Directive 75/275/EEC is hereby replaced by the Annex attached hereto. Article 2 This Directive is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Done at Brussels, 18 July 1988. For the Council The President Y. POTTAKIS