Specific attention should be paid to the outermost regions, namely by adopting measures under Article 349 TFEU extending, on an exceptional basis, the scope of support from the ERDF to the financing of operating aid linked to the offsetting of the additional costs resulting from the specific economic and social situation of those regions which is compounded by the handicaps resulting from the factors referred to in Article 349 TFEU, namely remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate, economic dependence on a few products, the permanence and combination of which severely restrain their development.
Ba cheart aird shonrach a thabhairt ar na réigiúin is forimeallaí, eadhon trí bhearta a ghlacadh faoi Airteagal 349 CFAE lena leathnófar, ar bhonn eisceachtúil, raon feidhme na tacaíochta ó CFRE maidir le maoiniú cabhrach oibriúcháin atá nasctha le fritháireamh na gcostas breise a eascraíonn as staid shonrach eacnamaíoch agus shóisialta na réigiún sin, staid is measa fós mar gheall ar na baic a eascraíonn as na tosca dá dtagraítear in Airteagal 349 CFAE, eadhon iargúltacht, oileánachas, beagmhéid, topagrafaíocht agus aeráid achrannach, agus spleáchas eacnamaíoch ar bheagán táirgí, a ndéanann a mbuaine agus comhcheangal díobh mórdhochar dá bhforbairt.