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under the Regional competitiveness and employment objective, the coverage of areas with a geographical or natural handicap defined as follows: island Member States eligible under the Cohesion Fund, and other islands except those on which the capital of a Member State is situated or which have a fixed link to the mainland; mountainous areas as defined by the national legislation of the Member State; sparsely (less than 50 inhabitants per square kilometre) and very sparsely (less than 8 inhabitants per square kilometre) populated areas; the areas which were external borders of the Community on 30 April 2004 and which ceased to be so on the day after that date.

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