14. 1. 87 o Official Journal of the European Communities No L 12/17 II (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 19 February 1986 on the compatibility with the common market of aid under the German Federal/Land Government Joint Regional Aid Programme (Joint Programme for the improvement of regional economic structures) in six labour market regions (Only the German text is authentic) (87/15/EEC) . i THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular the first subpara- graph of Article 93 (2) thereof, Having given notice to the parties concerned to submit their comments, and having regard to those comments : Whereas : (1)  The Federal/Land Government Joint Regional Aid Programme (Gemeinschaftsaufgabe ‘Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur — ‘Joint Programme for the improvement of regional economic structures’), introduced by law on 6 October 1969 (), is financed on a 50-50 basis by the federal and Land governments. Section 1 (2) of the law provides that aid under the Joint Programme is to be available in the Zonal Border Area and in areas where : — the level of economic activity is (or is expected to fall) substantially below the national average, or — there is a preponderance of industries under- going, or threatened with, structural change, which is having or is likely to have substantial adverse effects in the area. Section 4 of the 1969 Act provides that a General Plan for the Joint Programme should be drawn up and annually reviewed and updated. In practice, a new amended General Plan is adopted each year. Part II, paragraph 1.2, of the Thirteenth General Plan — and of the Fourteenth Plan, now also under examination by the Commission () — declares as eligible for aid under the Joint Programme ‘indus- trial investment that is particularly deserving of suppoit from an economic point of view'. This criterion is defined in paragraph 1.2.1 as follows : : ‘Industrial investment shall be regarded as particu- larly deserving of support from an economic point of view if it is likely directly, and in the long run not unsubsantially, to increase total income in the relevant economic region by creating additional sources of income (primary effect). This can be presumed to be the case where the business recei- ving the assistance produces goods or provides services predominantly of types that are regularly - traded across regional boundaries.’ (*) Bundesgesetzblatt I 1861 ; last amended by law on 23 Decem- (» Bundestag papers 10/1279 of 11 April 1984 and 10/3562 of ber 1971 (BGBL. I, p. 2140). 25 June 198S.