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Article 1

1. Operations to facilitate the employment and geographical and professional mobility of persons who cease to pursue an activity directly and principally in agriculture in order to take up a non-agricultural activity shall be eligible to receive assistance from the Fund under Article 4 of the Council Decision of 1 February 1971.

1. Operations concerning persons who are to pursue self-employed activities shall also be eligible to receive assistance from the Fund, under the conditions laid down in the preceding paragraph. 1OJ No L 28, 4.2.1971, p. 15. 2OJ No L 249, 10.11.1971, p. 54. 3OJ No L 96, 23.4.1972, p. 15.

Article 2

To qualify for assistance from the Fund, the operations concerning the persons referred to in Article 1 must, save in exceptional cases, be accompanied by the implementation of a programme which makes clear the economic background to the projects being organised and specifies the aims and means thereof.

Article 3

Those aids which feature on the list established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2397/71 of 8 November 1971 1 on aid which may qualify for assistance from the European Social Fund, may receive assistance from the European Social Fund.

Article 4

This Decision shall enter into force on the fifth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Done at Brussels, 19 December 1972.

For the Council

The President

T. WESTERTERP 1OJ No L 249, 10.11.1971, p. 58.