No L-170/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 3.7.90 - COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1866/90 of 2 July 1990 on arrangements for using the ecu for the purposes of the budgetary management of the Structural Funds ' THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic’ Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 of 19 December 1988 laying down provisions for imple- menting Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as regards coordi- nation of the activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves and with the operations of the Euro- pean Investment Bank and the: other existing financial instruments (), and in particular Article 22 thereof, After consultation of the Committee for the Develope- ment and Reconversion of Regions and the Committee referred to in Article 124 of the Treaty; Whereas, in connection with the Structural Funds, Article 22 of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 provides that Commission decisions, commitments and payments shall be denominated and carried out in ecus in accordance with arrangements to be drawn up; whereas that provi- sion has not affected as such the agri-monetary arrange- ments laid down by the Council ; whereas this Regulation does not- affect the application by Member States, in respect of the amounts fixed in-ecus by the Council within the framework of the policy on agricultural struc- tures, of the conversion rate fixed in the Annexes to - Council Regulation: (EEC) No 1678/85 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1129/89.(3; Whereas given the transitional character of Article 10 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4256/88 (%), it is obvious that the new system will only be applied, in the sector of the EAGGF guidance section relating to the marketing and processing of agricultural and forestry products, as well as of fishery products, to grant requests made after the entry in force of Council Regulations (EEC) No 866/90 () and (EEC) No 867/90 (%) envisaged- under Article 10 (1) of Regulation {EEC) No 4256/88, for agri- cultural and forestry products, and “after 31 December 1990 for fishery products; Whereas  the Committee on Agricultural Structures and Rural Development has not delivered-an opinion in the time-limit laid down by its Chairman, () OJ No L 374, 31. 12. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 11. () OJ No L 119, 11. 5. 1990, p. 1. () OJ No L 374, 31. 12. 1988, p. 25. 9 O No L 91, 6. 4. 1990, p. 1. () OJ No L 91, 6. 4. 1990, p. 7. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Plans The plans referred to in Articles 5, 6 and 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 shall be submitted by Member States in ecus or in national currency. Article 2 Community support frameworks Financing plans for Community support frameworks shall be drawn up in constant prices in ecus. Article 3 Applications for assistance Financing plans accompanying applications for assistance, which- are governed by Articles 14 to 18 to Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88, shall be submitted to the Commission’ in ecus or in national currency. In the latter case, the reference exchange rate shall be the rate in force in the month of receipt of the application, as defined in Article 91 of Commission Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 610/86 of 11 December 1986 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of certain provisions of the Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977 (). Article 4 Grant decisions by the Commission The amount of the grant and the financing plan approved by the Commission shall be expressed in constante prices in ecus. Article 5 Payments 1.  Statements of expenditure supporting the correspon- . ding ..payment requests shall be made in ecus or -in national currency.’ 2.  Member States which submit: their statements of expenditure in ecus shall convert the amounts of expendi- ture incurred in national currency into ecus applying the rate for the month during which the expenditure was recorded in the accounts of the bodies responsible for the () OJ No L 360, 19. 12. 1986, p. 1.