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1. The specific measure shall apply to zones which in principle meet the following criteria:

(a) a minimum number of jobs in the textile and clothing industry;

(b) industrial employment dependent in large measure on the textile and clothing industry;

(c) major job losses in the textile and clothing industry in recent years;

(d) the social and economic situation in the region in which the zone concerned is situated. This situation shall be assessed on the basis of the per capita gross domestic product and structural unemployment;

(e) eligibility of the zone concerned for a national regional-aid scheme.

2. The zones complying with the criteria referred to in paragraph 1 shall be the following:

(a) In Belgium: The Aalst, Monsoon and Oudenaarde ‘arrondissements’.

(b) In France: the départements of Ariège, Loire, Pas-de-Calais, Tarn and the Vosges, including the bordering aided zones of the départements of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin; the zones covered by national regional aid schemes in the départements of Ardèche, Gard, Somme and Nord, including in the case of the last-mentioned the textile zones of the Lille ‘arrondissement’; the textile ‘cantons’ of the département of Aisne adjacent to the département of Nord, i.e. the ‘cantons’ of Catelet and Bohain-en-Vermandois;

(c) In Ireland: the planning regions of Donegal, north-west and west.

(d) In Italy: the assisted zones in the Provinces of Arezzo, Como, Perugia, Pesaro-Urbino, Pistoia, Treviso and Vercelli; the Provinces of Enna, Lecce, Bari and Palermo;

(e) In the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland; the region of Tayside; the travel-to-work areas of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Keighley and Todmorden in the county of West Yorkshire; the travel-to-work areas of Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley, Lancaster, Nelson and Rossendale in the county of Lancashire; the travel-to-work areas of Ashton-under-Lyme, Bolton, Bury, Leigh, Oldham, Rochdale and Wigan in the county of Greater Manchester;

(f) In the Netherlands: the ‘COROP-Gebied’ of Twente and the textile zone of Helmond;

(g) In the Federal Republic of Germany: the Arbeitsmarktregionen of Ahaus, Steinfurt and Fulda, as well as the assisted zones in the Arbeitsmarktregion of Bayreuth.