etween the latter and charitable associations and
foundations as institutions responsible for social welfare
establishments and services.
DECLARATION
ON THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
The Conference calls upon the European Parliament, the Council and
the Commission, as well as the Member States, when drafting and
implementing Community legislation on the common agricultural
policy, transport, the internal market and research, to pay full regard to
the welfare requirements of animals.
DECLARATION
ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE INTERESTS OF THE OVERSEAS
COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 227(3)
AND (5)(a) AND (b) OF THE TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN
COMMUNITY
The Conference, noting that in exceptional circumstances divergences
may arise between the interests of the Union and those of the
overseas countries and territories referred to in Article 227(3) and
(5)(a) and (b), agrees that the Council will seek to reach a solution
which accords with the position of the Union. However, in the event
that this proves impossible, the Conference agrees that the Member
State concerned may act separately in the interests of the said
overseas countries and territories, without this affecting the
Community's interests. The Member State concerned will give notice
to the Council and the Commission where such a divergence of
interests is likely to occur and, when separate action proves
unavoidable, make it clear that it is acting in the interests of overseas
territory mentioned above.
This declaration also applies to Macao and East Timor.
DECLARATION
ON THE OUTERMOST REGIONS OF THE COMMUNITY
The Conference acknowledges that the outermost regions of the
Community (the French overseas departments, Azores and Madeira
and Canary Islands) suffer from major structural backwardness
compounded by several phenomena (remoteness, island status, small
size, difficult topography and climate, economic dependence on a few
products), the permanence and combination of which severely restrain
their economic and social development.
It considers that, while the provisions of the Treaty establishing the
European Community and secondary legislation apply automatically to
outermost regions, it is nonetheless possible to adopt specific
measures to assist them inasmuch and as long as there is an
objective need to take such measures with a view to the economic and
social development of those regions. Such measures should have
their aim both the comp