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COMMISSION DECISION
of21December1973
grantingassistancefromtheEuropeanSocialFund,asprovidedforinArticle125
oftheTreaty,totheFederalRepublicofGermanyforexpenditureonvocational
retrainingoperationscarriedoutbythe'BundesanstaltfürArbeit(BA)'andthesocial
insuranceorganizationsforworkers
(ESFfileNos72046,72118,73020,73043)
(OnlytheGermantextisauthentic)
(74/176/EEC)
THECOMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES ,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishingtheEuro­
peanEconomicCommunity,andinparticular
Article125thereof;
HavingregardtoCouncilRegulation (EEC)No
2396/71(*)of8November1971implementing the
CouncilDecisionof1February1971onthereform
oftheEuropeanSocialFund,andinparticular
Article12thereof;
Whereasinitsapplicationsof8Juneand27
December1972,14Juneand20June1973the
FederalRepublicofGermanyrequestedassistance
fromtheEuropeanSocialFund,asprovidedforin
Article125oftheTreaty,forexpenditureonvoca­
tionalretrainingoperationsamountingtoatotal
amountofDM97675415-08;Whereas,pursuanttoArticle12ofRegulation
(EEC)No2396/71,suchassistanceisgrantedfor
operationsinitiatedbefore1May1972,thedateon
whichthesaidRegulationenteredintoforce,and
terminatedbefore1July1972,andwhereasthe
applications forassistancemustbeexamined
pursuanttotheprovisionsofCouncilRegulation
No9(2)of25August1960,aslastamendedby
CouncilRegulationNo37/67/EEC(3),andtothe
provisionsadoptedpursuanttothesaidRegula­
tion;
Whereas,inaccordancewithArticles1and3of
RegulationNo9,theapplicationsreferredtoabove
fromtheFederalRepublicofGermanyrelateto
vocationalretrainingoperationscarriedoutonthe
responsibility andattheexpenseofthe'Bundesan­
staltfürArbeit(BA)',the'Landesversicherungsan ­
stalten(LVA)',whereasthetotalamountrequested
forthoseoperationsistobeallocatedasfollows:
Amountrequested
inDMBody
1.Bundesanstalt fürArbeit(BA)
2.Landesversicherungsanstalten (LVA)
LVABaden
LVABerlin
LVABraunschweig
LVAHamburg
LVAHannover
LVAHessen68444708-79
1903921-28
870914-12
560346
1506211-79
2414521-88
1781319-90
668512-70
956558-95
933033-56
1414723-87
2041082-04LVANiederbayern-Oberpfalz
LVAOberbayern
LVAOber-undMittelfranken
LVAOldenburg-Bremen
LVARheinland-Pfalz
(2)OJNo56,31.8.1960,p.1189/60.
(»)OJNo33,24.2.1967,p.526/67. f1)OJNoL249,10.1/1.197.1,p.54.

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LVARheinprovinz
LVASaarland
LVASchleswig-Holstein
LVASchwaben
LVAUnterfranken
LVAWestfalen
LVAWürttemberg5302385-74
797371-44
1710'779-42
347041-19
295439-60
3092460-54
2408835-59
67454-47
157792-213.Bundesbahnversicherungsanstalt
4.Seekasse
thedetailedrulesfortheexaminationandchecking
ofapplicationsforassistancesubmittedtotheEuro­
peanSocialFund,revealedthattheseapplications
complywiththeconditionslaiddownbytherele­
vantrules;
Whereas,consequently ,thebodiesreferredtoabove
areentitledtoreceiveassistancefromtheFundfor
theirexpenditureprovidedthatthesumofDM
15099697-92isdeducted,andwhereasthetotal
amountofassistancetobegrantedbytheFund
pursuanttoArticle125oftheTreatyistherefore
DM97675415-08minusDM15099697-92,i.e.DM
82575717-16.
WhereasinitsOpinionof25October1973the
CommitteeoftheEuropeanSocialFundreachedthe
sameconclusionsforthereasonsgivenabove,Whereasthebodieslistedabovewereincludedinor
belongedtoagroupofbodiesaddedtothelistof
bodiesgovernedbypubliclawreferredtoinArticle
18ofRegulationNo9;
Whereastheapplicationscontainingtheinforma­
tionsrequiredunderArticle20ofRegulationNo9
andrelatingtooperationsterminatedduringthe
periodfrom1January1970to31December1971
inclusive,wereproperlysubmittedwithinthetime
limitslaiddowninArticle19ofRegulationNo9;
Whereasitisnecessarytosuspendtheexamination
ofthepartoftheapplicationsofthe'Bundesan­
staltfiirArbeit',whichrelatetothelabouroffices
undertheauspicesofwhichvocationaltraining
operationscanbeundertakenforthebenefitof
workersfromtheminingsector,sothatthe
Commission andtheFundCommitteecanexamine
thequestionofprinciple,namely,towhatextent
cancollieryworkerswhoareaffectedbythe
measureswithinthemeaningofArticle56(2)ofthe
TreatyestablishingtheEuropeanCoalandSteel
Communitybetakenintoconsideration forthe
grantingofassistanceprovidedforinArticle125of
theEECTreaty;whereasbecauseofthisthepart
oftheapplicationsrelatingtothelabourofficesin
Aachen,Bochum,Dortmund,Duisburg,Essen,
Gelsenkirchen ,Hagen,Hamm,Oberhausen,Reck­
linghausen,Wesel,Neunkirchen ,Saarbruckenund
Saarlouisarisingintheapplicationsofthe'Bunde­
sanstaltfiirArbeit'andcomingtoasumtotalof
DM15099697-92havebeenputasideforthe
momentsothattheycanbeexaminedatalater
date;HASADOPTEDTHISDECISION :
Article1
Theapplicationsforassistancesubmittedtothe
EuropeanSocialFundbytheFederalRepublicof
Germanyfortheexpenditureofthebodiesreferred
toinArticle2onvocationalretrainingoperations
terminatedduringtheperiodfrom1January1970
to31December1971inclusive,complywiththe
rulesgoverningtheoperationoftheFundas
regardsthesumofDM82575717-16.The
remainderoftheseapplicationswillbeexaminedat
alaterdate.
Whereastheexaminationoftheremainingapplica­
tionsandthecheckingoftheirmaterialandfinan­
cialaspects,carriedoutpursuanttotheprovisions
ofCommissionRegulationNo113/63/EECi1)onArticle2
TheamountofassistancefromtheEuropeanSocial
FundtobegrantedpursuanttoArticle125ofthe (*)OJNo153,24.10.1963,p.2563/63.

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TreatytotheFederalRepublicofGermanytothe
bodieslistedbelowshallbeDM82575717-16(equivalentto22561671-36unitsofaccount).This
sumshallbeallocatedasfollows:
Assistancegranted Body
1.Bundesanstalt fürArbeit(BA)inDM
53345010-87
2.Landesversicherungsanstalten (LVA)
LVABaden 1903921-28
iLVABerlin 870914-12
LVABraunschweig 560346
LVAHamburg 1506211-79
LVAHannover 2414521-88
LVAHessen 1781319-90
LVANiederbayern-Oberpfalz 668512-70
LVAOberbayern 956558-95
LVAOber-undMittelfranken 933033-56
LVAOldenburg-Bremen 1414723-87
LVARheinland-Pfalz 2041082-04
LVARheinprovinz 5302385-74
LVASaarland 797371-44
LVASchleswig-Holstein 1710779-42
LVASchwaben 347041-19
LVAUnterfranken 295439-60
LVAWestfalen 3092460-54
LVAWürttemberg 2408835-59
67454-47
157792-213.Bundesbahnversicherungsanstalt
4.Seekasse
Article3
ThisDecisionisaddressedtotheFederalRepublicofGermany.
DoneatBrussels,21December1973.
FortheCommission
ThePresident
Francois-Xavier ORTOLI