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DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE ECSC CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

on the limitation of scrap exports to the EU by central and east european countries, the Baltic States and the CIS

(96/C 36/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(Adopted by the ECSC Consultative Committee at its 320th meeting, held in Luxembourg on 19 December 1995, with five abstentions)

THE ECSC CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE:

- underlines that it has already stressed to the Commission the risk inherent in the facility granted to eastern European countries to limit their scrap exports to the EU, facility included in the association and cooperation agreements,

- notes with regret that these risks have actually materialized, since more and more eastern European countries have decided to prohibit, set a ceiling or heavily tax scrap exports to the EU,

- observes that these measures allow the steel producers of these countries to buy this important raw material at very low prices (often half the international price level), thus creating an artificial reduction in production costs compared to those operating electric arc furnaces,

- notes that this situation limits the sources of supply available to the EU producers, and moreover, that it creates abnormal conditions of competition in the EU and on the international markets for finished products, particularly for long products,

- invites the Commission to continue to take care that the eastern European countries implement the agreement according to the principles of gradual opening towards the respective markets and in compliance with the rules of normal competition,

- requests the Commission to intensify its efforts with the competent Community authorities to apply the following measures:

- negotiation with countries prohibiting scrap exports with a view to the immediate fixing of a quantity ceiling,

- negotiation of a precise schedule for the abolition of quantity ceilings,

- progressive withdrawal of any export duty,

- in the event that the above objectives prove unattainable after the Commission has exhausted all possibilities of intervention at its disposal, imposition of compensatory duties on imports of steel products from works of those countries which benefit from artificial scrap supply conditions.
Commission communication in pursuance of Council Regulation (EC) No 2317/95 of 25 September 1995 determining the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders of the Member States (1) (96/C 379/03)

(Publication of information provided by the Member States pursuant to Articles 2 (4) and 4 (2) of the Regulation - Information as at 1 July 1996)

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D. Categories of nationals of third countries on the common list who are exempt from the visa requirement within the meaning of Article 4 (1) of the Regulation

I. GENERAL COMMENTS

Article 4 (1) refers to the following categories:

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For the categories referred to in 1, 2 and 3 the Member States have entered into international commitments which provide for general or specific exemption from the visa requirement. Examples of these agreements include the Vienna Convention, or relating to transport, the Chicago Convention of 7 December 1944 on International Civil Aviation, and particularly its Annex 9 or the International Labour Organization's Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No 108).

II. SPECIFIC INFORMATION

The information given below is more specific to the Member States, and varies depending on the agreements they have signed with the third countries concerned with a view to dispensing with the visa requirement for the categories of nationals of third countries listed under Article 4 (1) of the Regulation.

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(1) OJ No L 234, 3. 10. 1995, p. 1.
Forward estimate for the 1997/98 wine year (97/C 383/05)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the market in wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2087/97 (2), and in particular Article 3 (4) thereof,

Whereas Article 31 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 stipulates that a forward estimate must be drawn up each year in order to determine the resources and assess the requirements of the Community, including foreseeable imports from and exports to third countries;

Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2396/84 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3373/89 (4), the forward estimate must be drawn up on the basis of all the information available, and in particular that forwarded by the Member States;

Whereas the Member States have forwarded information to the Commission on harvest and stock declarations relating to wine products in accordance with Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1294/96 (5), consolidating the provisions on the subject, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 225/97 (6);

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine,

HAS ADOPTED THIS ESTIMATE:

The forward estimate for the 1997/98 wine year for the Community shall be as shown in the Annex hereto.

(1) OJ L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 292, 25. 10. 1997, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 224, 21. 8. 1984, p. 14.

(4) OJ L 325, 10. 11. 1989, p. 19.

(5) OJ L 166, 5. 7. 1996, p. 14.

(6) OJ L 37, 7. 2. 1997, p. 1.

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Information from the Commission - Appointment of the members of the Consumer Committee



Official Journal C 328 , 30/10/1997 P. 0017 - 0017



Appointment of the members of the Consumer Committee (97/C 328/07) The Consumer Committee was established by Commission Decision 95/260/EC of 13 June 1995 (1) By decision of 24 October 1997, the Commission has appointed the following members and alternates of the Consumer Committee, replacing the members previously appointed (2) for the remainder of the term of office of the members they replace: Members Mr P. NEDERGAARD (DK) Mr S. PASCHALIDIS (GR) Mr K. ANDERSON (NL) Mrs M. EKMAN (SE) Alternates Mrs B. FEDERSPIEL (DK) Mrs H. GOULIELMOU (GR) (1) OJ L 162, 13. 7. 1995, p. 37. (2) OJ C 36, 9. 2. 1996, p. 5.
OPINION OF THE COMMISSION of 1 December 1997 concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste in the final repository for low and intermediate level radioactive waste at Loviisa, Finland, in accordance with Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty (97/C 385/02)

(Only the Finnish text is authentic)

On 6 May 1997, the European Commission received from the Government of Finland, in accordance with Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty, general data relating to the plan for the disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive waste in a final repository at Loviisa, Finland.

On the basis of these data and clarifications subsequently provided on behalf of the Government of Finland, and following, consultation with the group of experts, the Commission has drawn up the following opinion:

1. The general data concerns the disposal of operational wastes from the Loviisa nuclear power station to the repository. They do not cover the possible future disposal of wastes arising from the dismantling of the nuclear power station; accordingly, no conclusions are drawn on this aspect.

2. The distance between the repository and the nearest point on the territory of another Member State, in this case Sweden, is about 380 km (Estonia, a candidate Member State, is about 58 km away and the distance to Russian territory is about 45 km.)

3. During the operational period,

- under normal conditions, the discharges of liquid and gaseous effluents are not liable to result in an exposure of the population in other Member States significant from the health point of view. This conclusion remains valid taking account of the additional operational discharges from the Loviisa nuclear power station,

- unplanned discharges of radioactive effluents which could result from an accident of the type and magnitude considered in the general data are not liable to result in an exposure of the population in other Member States significant from the health point of view.

4. After closure of the repository,

- the measures to be taken for closure of the repository and the natural features of the site provide a high degree of confidence that the conclusions in point 3 above will remain valid in the long term.

In conclusion, the Commission is of the opinion that the implementation of the plan for the disposal of low and intermediate level radioactive wastes from the Loviisa nuclear power station in the repository, both in normal operation and in the event of an accident of the type and magnitude considered in the general data, during the operational phase and after the closure of the repository, is not liable to result in the radioactive contamination, significant from the point of view of health, of the water, soil or airspace of another Member State.

The Commission notes, however, that the environmental monitoring provisions remain to be defined for the period following the closure of the Loviisa nuclear power station and that such provisions can contribute to demonstrating the continuing safe condition of the repository.
JOINT COMMUNIQUÉ OF 3 MAY 1998 BY THE MINISTERS AND CENTRAL BANK GOVERNORS OF THE MEMBER STATES ADOPTING THE EURO AS THEIR SINGLE CURRENCY, THE COMMISSION AND THE EUROPEAN MONETARY INSTITUTE ON THE DETERMINATION OF THE IRREVOCABLE CONVERSION RATES FOR THE EURO (98/C 160/01)

In accordance with Article 109l(4) of the Treaty, the irrevocable conversion rates for the euro will be adopted by the Council, on a proposal from the Commission and after consultation of the European Central Bank (ECB), on the first day of stage three, i.e. on 1 January 1999.

With a view to guiding markets in the run-up to stage three, the Ministers of the Member States adopting the euro as their single currency, the Governors of the Central Banks of these Member States, the European Commission and the European Monetary Institute (EMI) have agreed on the method for determining the irrevocable conversion rates for the euro at the starting date of stage three.

The current ERM bilateral central rates of the currencies of the Member States which, on the first day of stage three, will adopt the euro as their single currency, will be used in determining the irrevocable conversion rates for the euro. These rates are consistent with economic fundamentals and are compatible with sustainable convergence among the Member States which will participate in the euro area. The central banks of the Member States adopting the euro as their single currency will ensure through appropriate market techniques that on 31 December 1998 the market exchange rates, recorded according to the regular concertation procedure used for calculating the daily exchange rates of the official ecu, are equal to the ERM bilateral central rates as set forth in the attached parity grid.

The procedure agreed on by all parties to this Joint Communiqué will ensure that the adoption of the irrevocable conversion rates for the euro will by itself, as required by Article 109l(4) of the Treaty, not modify the external value of the ecu, which will be replaced on a 1:1 basis by the euro. The attached annex provides detailed information on this procedure. The final official ecu exchange rates calculated accordingly and released on 31 December 1998 will be proposed by the Commission for adoption by the Council on the first day of stage three, i.e. on 1 January 1999, as the irrevocable conversion rates for the euro for the participating currencies.

In compliance with the legal framework for the use of the euro, once the irrevocable conversion rate for the euro for each participating currency has been adopted, it will be the only rate which will be used for conversion either way between the euro and the national currency unit and also for conversions between national currency units.

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REPORT OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF AUDITORS on the financial statements of the European Coal and Steel Community at 31 December 1997

1. This report concerns the reliability of the accounts drawn up by the Commission in accordance with Article 45c of the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.

2. The Court has audited the accounts and financial statements of the European Coal and Steel Community at 31 December 1997 in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and carried out such checks as it considered necessary.

3. In the Court's opinion, the attached financial statements (balance sheet at 31 December 1997, profit-and-loss account, statement of the allocation of surplus and notes to the financial statements), which have been drawn up in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, give a true and fair view of the assets and financial situation of the European Coal and Steel Community at 31 December 1997 and of the result of its operations for the year then ended.

Luxembourg, 30 June 1998.

Bernhard FRIEDMANN

President of the Court of Auditors

Armindo de SOUSA RIBEIRO

Member of the Court of Auditors
OPINION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK at the request of the Council of the European Union under Article 109l(4) of the Treaty establishing the European Community on a proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) on the conversion rates between the euro and the currencies of the Member States adopting the euro (98/C 412/01)

1. On 31 December 1998 the European Central Bank (ECB) received a request from the Council of the European Union for an ECB opinion on the proposal of the Commission of the European Communities (Doc. COM(1998) 732 dated 9 December 1998) for a Council Regulation (EC) on the conversion rates between the euro and the currencies of the Member States adopting the euro. This proposal foresees the following conversion rates:

1 euro // = 40,3399 Belgian francs

// = 1,95583 German marks

// = 166,386 Spanish pesetas

// = 6,55957 French francs

// = 0,787564 Irish pounds

// = 1936,27 Italian lire

// = 40,3399 Luxembourg francs

// = 2,20371 Dutch guilders

// = 13,7603 Austrian schillings

// = 200,482 Portuguese escudos

// = 5,94573 Finnish marks

2. The ECB's competence to deliver an opinion is based on Article 109l(4), first sentence, of the Treaty establishing the European Community. In accordance with Article 17(5) first sentence of the Rules of Procedure of the ECB, this ECB opinion has been adopted by the Governing Council of the ECB.

3. The ECB confirms the calculation of the proposed conversion rates and agrees on the use of the instrument of a Council Regulation to ensure that the conversion rates adopted by the Council of the European Union have general application and are legally binding in their entirety and directly applicable to all legal instruments that refer to the currencies of participating Member States.

4. The ECB welcomes the decision to adopt and publish the Council Regulation on 31 December 1998 and to have it enter into force at 0.00 a.m. local time on 1 January 1999. This is to ensure that the conversion rates are effective at the same moment as the substitution of the euro for the national currencies of the participating Member States as laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 974/98 of 3 May 1998 on the introduction of the euro.

5. The ECB notes, that by adopting as the conversion rates the exchange rates of the currencies of the participating Member States vis-à-vis the ecu, as calculated by the Commission of the European Communities and confirmed by the ECB on 31 December 1998 according to the established procedure for the calculation of the official daily ecu rates, it is ensured that the fixing of the conversion rates will not, by itself, modify the external value of the ecu.

6. This opinion shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Done by means of teleconferencing on 31 December 1998.

The President of the ECB

Willem F. DUISENBERG
Commission communication pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 2317/95 of 25 September 1995 determining the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders of the Member States (1) (98/C 101/03)

Update and revision of information published on 14 June 1997 pursuant to Articles 2 and 4 of Regulation (EC) No 2317/95 - Information provided by the Member States as at 5 February 1998

A.1. Inventory of visa regimes applied to countries not featured on the common list annexed to Council Regulation (EC) No 2317/95 (2)

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A.2. Inventory of countries whose nationals are exempted from the visa requirement by all Member States

Note: This information is not specifically required by the Regulation.

Andorra

Argentinia

Canada

Czech Republic

Cyprus

Hungary

Iceland

Japan

Korea (Republic) (3g)

Liechtenstein

Malta

Mexico

Monaco

New Zealand

Norway

San Marino

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Switzerland

Uruguay

A.3. List of dependent territories of the Member States whose nationals are subject to the visa requirement by one or more Member States

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B. Territorial entities and authorities which are not recognised (Article 2(3))

The nationals of territorial entities and authorities which are not recognised as States by any Member State are subject to the visa requirement by all Member States.

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C. Situation of Stateless persons and recognised refugees and the visa requirement for first entry into the territory (Article 2(2))

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D. Categories of nationals of third countries on the common list who are exempt from the visa requirement within the meaning of Article 4(1) of the Regulation

I. GENERAL COMMENTS:

Article 4(1) refers to the following categories:

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For the categories referred to in 1, 2 and 3 the Member States have entered into international commitments which provide for general or specific exemption from the visa requirement. Examples of these agreements include the Vienna Convention of 18 April 1961 on Diplomatic Relations, or relating to transport, the Chicago Convention of 7 December 1944 on International Civil Aviation, and particularly its Annex 9 or the International Labour Organisation's Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention, 1958 (No 108).

Under point 5, it should be noted that there is an exemption for third country schoolchildren resident in a Member State of the European Union travelling as part of a school trip in accordance with the joint action 94/795/JHA (OJ L 327, 19.12.1994) with the exception of Portugal.

II. SPECIFIC INFORMATION

The information given below is more specific to the Member States, and varies depending on the agreements they have signed with the third countries concerned with a view to dispensing with the visa requirement for the categories of nationals of third countries listed pursuant to Article 4(1) of the Regulation.

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(1) OJ L 234, 3.10.1995, p. 1.

(2) 'V` whose nationals are subject to visa requirements by one or more Member States (Article 2(1)).

(3g) Germany: For Korea (Republic), holders of official duty passports are exempt for a maximum of 90 days.
COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS of 30 April 1998 on the integration of health protection requirements in Community policies (98/C 169/01)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community;

REAFFIRMING its resolutions of 20 December 1995 and 12 November 1996 on the integration of health protection requirements into Community policies (1) and noting that as requested in these resolutions, the Commission is drawing up appropriate methods and criteria as a basis for the integration of health requirements into other Community policies, and for evaluating the effects of Community policies on human health;

WELCOMES the Commission's third annual report of 27 January 1998 on the integration of health protection requirements in Community policies (1996);

WELCOMES also the new format consisting of a concise report and a separate working document giving a detailed overview of Community activities with a health impact;

NOTES that this report concentrates on major developments in 1996, including those in food and agricultural policy (in particular those developments connected with a possible link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD), in the field of research, in environmental protection, in social policy development, and in other policy areas of particular relevance to health;

NOTES the wide range of health-related activities in these major areas of Community policy that are described in the accompanying Commission services working document;

NOTES the factors which the Commission identifies as being key to making progress in this field, and welcomes the Commission's intention to consider instruments to give effect to such progress and to return to these issues in its fourth report;

INVITES the Commission to produce its fourth report quickly and to aim to present subsequent reports within one year after the end of the period they cover;

INVITES the Commission to include sections on public health impact in its annual reports on the implementation of the previous year's overall work programme and, as requested by the Council in its abovementioned resolutions, to indicate in its annual forward work programme all proposals which may have an impact on health protection.

(1) OJ C 350, 30.12.1995, p. 2 and OJ C 374, 11.12.1996, p. 3.
Corrigendum to the Commission Communication in the framework of the implementation Directive 97/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 May 1997 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning pressure equipment

(Official Journal of the European Communities C 227 of 10 August 1999)

(2001/C 74/18)

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Replacement of two full members of the Consultative Committee for Cooperatives, Mutual Societies, Associations and Foundations (CMAF) (1999/C 70/02) (Text with EEA relevance)

By its Decision of 9 February 1999, the Commission decided to appoint the following persons as full members of the Consultative Committee for cooperatives, mutual societies, associations and foundations, to replace Mr Peter WALKER (Cooperatives group) and Mr Herbert DE GRAAF (Associations/Foundations group) for the remainder of the term of office:

COOPERATIVES

Hans-Detlef WÜLKER

ASSOCIATIONS/FOUNDATIONS

José Ignacio OYARZABAL
List of the competent authorities designated by the Member States to be responsible for application of the aid scheme for the use of grapes, grape must and concentrated grape must to produce grape juice (List published pursuant to Article 13 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2641/88) (1999/C 46/05)

(This list cancels and replaces the list published in Official Journal of the European Communities C 344 of 15 November 1996, page 68.)

Note:

1. Authority responsible for payment of aid.

2. Authorities responsible for checks (accompanying documents and stock accounts).

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Information from the Commission - List of the regulated markets notified to the Standing Committee of the EFTA States under Article 16 of the Investment Services Directive (93/22/EEC) included in point 30b of Annex IX to the Agreement of the European Economic Area (Text with EEA relevance)



Official Journal C 151 , 29/05/1999 P. 0020 - 0020