Declaration 43 allows Mayotte to change to the status of "outermost region".

There are also, in addition, quite specific conditions for what we term the outermost regions.

It is the outermost regions that put Community shipping in its position as world leader.

I urge anyone who has not been to Lapland to go and see what a real outermost region looks like.

I come from an outermost region, the Azores, where milk production is the pillar of the economy, society and the environment.

The restrictions and constraints that affect the outermost regions are permanent.

There is more than just one outermost region.

However, the agreement causes real damage to all the outermost regions, which are known to be highly vulnerable.

In this area it is important not to leave out the most isolated and outermost regions.

But they are also for Community purposes outermost regions.