No L 288/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 21. 10. 88 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3224/88 ' of 17 October 1988 introducing an emergency common measure to aid thie agricultural areas of the Regions of Valencia and Murcia (Spain) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishihg the European Economic Commumty, and in vparticular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ('), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (%), Whereas, in order to attain the objectives of the common agricultural policy set out in Article 39 (1) (a) and (b) of the Treaty, assistance must be provided for the structural improvement of agriculture in regions which are facing serious problems ; Whereas the flooding that occurred between 2 and 5 November 1987-in the Regions of Valencia and Murcia destroyed or seriously damaged rural infrastructures and certain factors of agricultural production, including human habitations, in those regions ; Whereas the flooding damaged agricultural land and, in some cases, removed the topsoil ; Whereas steps should be taken in the most seriously affected areas to promote and speed up the re-establishment of damaged or destroyed investments ; Whereas the information supplied to the Commission by the Spanish Government indicates that the extent and seriousness of the damage exceed the financial resources of the Regions and of the Member State concerned; whereas Community solidarity should consequently take the form of the implementation within a reasonable period of an exceptional emergency measure for the re-establishment and improvement of investments damaged or destroyed ; Whereas such aid should be granted within the framework of measures for the re-establishment and improvement of investments that have.been damaged or destroyed ; Whereas,' in order to ensure that the measures are as effective as possible and are implemented within a very short period, provision should be made that they are ‘incorporated in an annual action programme to be drawn up by the regional authorities and forwarded by the Spanish Government to the Commission ; Whereas provision should be made for the duratlon of the common measure to be extended by one year should unforeseen difficulties prevent it from being implemented at the rate originally planned; () OJ No C 182, 12. 7. 1988, p. (3 Opinion delivered on 14 October 1988 (not yet published in the Official Journal). Whereas it should be laid down that this package of measures constitutes a common measure within the meaning of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural policy (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2048/88 (*); Whereas a contribution from the Guidance Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and -Guarantee Fund, hereinafter called ‘the Fund’, in the form of a capital subsidy equivalent to 35 % of the cost occasioned to make good the damage represents an appropriate Community contribution to be made in a spirit of solidarity in view of the limited financial resources of Spain, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : " Article 1 In order to accelerate and facilitate the re-establishment and improvement of investments damaged or destroyed by the flooding that occurred in November 1987 in the ‘Comunidades Auténomas de Valencia e Murcia’, an exceptional emergency measure is hereby introduced to aid agriculture in those regions. This measure shall constitute a common measure within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70. Article 2 In accordance with Article 5 the Community may grant aid as part of the common measure by financing out of . the Fund, measures for: (a) the re-establishment and improvement of agricultural infrastructures, such as: — the electrification of and supply of mains water to agricultural  holdings and villages whose inhabitants depend principally on farming, — the reconstruction and improvement of wells in areas where there is no mains water supply network, — the reconstruction and improvement of farm roads used mainly for agriculture and sylviculture ; (b) the re-establishment and improvement of irrigation infrastructures, including individual water supplies, provided that these measures will ensure that production is more in line with the requirements of the common agricultural policy ; () OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13. () OJ ‘No L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 1.