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amending Regulation (EU) 2019/216 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards Union tariff rate quota for high quality beef from Paraguay

REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1.CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL

•Reasons for and objectives of the proposal

On 29 March 2017, the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) notified the European Council of the UK’s intention to withdraw from the European Union (EU). Since 1 February 2020, the United Kingdom has become a “third country”. Since 1 January 2021, after the end of the transition period, the European Union’s common commercial policy does no longer apply to the United Kingdom.

UK’s decision to withdraw from the EU has created the need to “apportion” the quantitative commitments contained in the EU-28 WTO schedule for the 143 EU agricultural, fish and industrial WTO tariff rate quotas (TRQs). The EU initiated this process in Geneva in October 2018. The basis of this approach has been to fully maintain the existing volume of each TRQ in the future, but split across two separate customs territories: the EU-27 and the UK.

Paraguay has a tariff rate quota of 1 000 tonnes for high quality bovine meat (order number 094455), which is not included in the EU’s WTO schedule. This TRQ was erroneously included in the apportionment exercise and thus reduced to 711 tonnes on the EU-27 side without any corresponding volume being opened on the UK side.

This means Paraguay’s market access has been reduced from 1 000 tonnes to 711 tonnes with application as of 1 January 2021.

This amending Regulation aims at restoring the correct EU-27 volume (1 000 tonnes) for the TRQ 094455.

•Consistency with existing policy provisions in the policy area

This initiative is in line with the EUs ongoing actions to ensure that the consequences of the withdrawal of the UK from the EU are dealt with in an orderly manner.

•Consistency with other Union policies

As above.

2.LEGAL BASIS, SUBSIDIARITY AND PROPORTIONALITY

•Legal basis

Article 207(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

•Subsidiarity (for non-exclusive competence)

The common commercial policy is an exclusive competence of the Union.

•Proportionality
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1.CONTEXT OF THE PROPOSAL

•Reasons for and objectives of the proposal

On 23 March 2022, the European Commission adopted a legislative proposal to amend Regulations (EU) No 1303/2013 and (EU) No 223/2014 to provide for exceptional and targeted changes in response to the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and the subsequent impact on the European Union and several of its eastern regions in particular.

This proposal was to provide additional initial pre-financing for 2014-2020 programmes supported by cohesion policy funds and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD), to be paid under REACT-EU, financed by the European Recovery Instrument “NextGenerationEU”.

The Commission had already taken action to assist Member States in this regard, via its Cohesion’s Action for Refugees in Europe (CARE) proposal of 8 March 2022.

At its meeting on 24-25 March 2022, the European Council discussed the Russian military aggression against Ukraine and, in its conclusions of the meeting, invited the Commission “to work on additional proposals to reinforce EU support” so as “to ensure that EU funding for refugees and their hosts can be mobilised rapidly”.

To address this invitation, the Commission is bringing forward this proposal, amending its legislative proposal of 23 March 2022. Since one of the most effective methods of mobilising funding rapidly is to make use of “simplified costs options”, which enable easier and quicker implementation of cohesion policy funds while also reducing the administrative burden, this proposal therefore creates a new unit cost. Member States can use this new unit cost to facilitate the financing of basic needs and support of persons granted temporary protection in accordance with Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/382 in all Member States where such a person is present. The unit cost may be used for a maximum of 13 weeks in total, starting from the date of arrival of the person in the European Union.
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Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation
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the restructuring of the textile and clothing'industry
(submitted to the Council by the Commission)
COM( 8 3)  752 final

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Proposal for a Council Regulation in s titu tin g  a specific Community  
regional development measure contributing to overcoming constraints  
on the development of new economic a c tiv itie s  in certain zones  
adversely affected by the restructuring of the te x tile  and clothing  
industry.
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1. "Belgium :  the "arrondissements" of Aalst, Mouscron and Oudenaarde".
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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION 
The use of the TC-uro t symbol 

The use of the ^.uro symbol T3,ui 
Since the meeting of the European Council in Dublin on 13/14 December 1996, the 
Commission is using the symbol € in its own publications to designate the single 
currency, the euro. Since then this symbol has been widely used by national 
administrations, central banks and by the private sector. 
The European Monetary Institute on 15 July 1997 acknowledged the need for a 
distinctive codified symbol for the single currency and announced that it will support the 
logo. 
Given the broad support the euro symbol has received, the European Commission invites 
all currency users to use the symbol, as described in the annex, whenever a distinctive 
symbol is needed for the description of monetary amounts in euro, e.g. in price lists and 
invoices, on cheques and in any other legal instruments. 
The F.uropean Commission will undertake all the necessary steps for the registration of 
the euro symbol with the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), which is 
responsible for the standardisation of glyphs/fonts, keyboards, character transmission 
codes, etc., with a view to enabling the insertion of the symbol in computer systems. First 
contacts have shown that the providers of information technology would support such an 
approach. A prominent position of the euro symbol, in particular on keyboards, will help 
economic agents in their preparatory work for the introduction of the single currency and 
will promote the widespread use of the new symbol. 
The euro symbol was designed by the Commission services. The final choice from 
among several designs was made following a qualitative assessment by the general public 
conducted by a specialised organisation. The € is inspired by the Greek epsilon pointing 
back to the cradle of European civilisation and the first letter of Europe, crossed by two 
parallel lines to indicate the stability of the euro. The early definition of a distinctive 
symbol for the euro also reflects the vocation of the euro to become one of the world's 
major currencies. 
EURO SYMBOL 
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communications plan "Euro: one 
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COMMISSION OPINION on a recommendation of the European Central Bank for a Council Regulation concerning the application of minimum reserve obligations by the European Central Bank

In a letter dated 6 April 2001, the Council requested the opinion of the Commission on a recommendation of the European Central Bank (ECB) for a Council Regulation concerning the application of minimum reserve requirements by the ECB. The competence of the Commission to deliver an opinion on this recommendation stems from Article 107(6) of the Treaty in connection with Article 28.1 of the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and the European Central Bank.

On 24.10.2001, the Commission adopted the following opinion:

1. The Commission agrees to extend the time period to two months as per the request. The undertaking concerned may thus request a judicial review of the decision of the Executive Board in accordance with the Treaty. This means that the reference to article 3(7) of Regulation (EC) No 2532/98 in article 7(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2531/98 shall be deleted.

2. The proposed amendment should not interfere with the effectiveness of sanctions imposed for non-compliance with the obligation to hold the required level of minimum reserves.

3. The Commission notes that, while the explanatory memorandum describes the present delay of 15 days for the Executive Board to carry out a review as too short in general, the accompanying letter of the Vice-President of the ECB refers, in particular, to occasional Christmas holiday period difficulties. Therefore, the Commission invites the ECB to provide to Parliament and the Commission an empirical review of the frequency of non-compliance with the minimum reserve requirement including further examples when non-compliance was observed.
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION - Monitoring of Commission decision of 29 November 1995 on aid to be granted by Austria to Voest Alpine Erzberg Gesellschaft mbH

1. INTRODUCTION

The Commission presents its report on the Monitoring of Commission decision of 29 November 1995 [1] on aid to be granted by Austria to Voest Alpine Erzberg Gesellschaft mbH pursuant to article 3 of that decision. It covers developments up to 30 June 2002 on the basis of information provided by the Austrian authorities in their letter of 7 November 2002.

[1] DECISION NO 96/269/ECSC (O.J. L 94, 16.4.1996, P. 17)

2. DESCRIPTION OF THE AID AND OF THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED

Approved aid amounts to EUR 19.77 million to cover operating losses over the period 1995-2002 and EUR 9.88 million to cover the costs of closing down mines safely and in an environmentally friendly manner. This aid is intended to enable it to close down the company's mining operations gradually up to the year 2002.

Authorisation of the aid was subject inter alia to the following conditions:

- the annual aid ceilings and the production ceiling mentioned below were not to be exceeded (so far observed),

- the amount of operating aid was not to exceed the difference between production costs and revenues (so far observed),

- the price charged for iron ore was to be in line with market prices and was not to be lower than the price of imported iron ore (so far observed).

3. PRODUCTION AND SALES

In the first half of 2002 VAEG produced 480 000 tonnes of iron ore with an average content of 33.6% Fe and 487 000 tonnes of low grade products which its only client, voestalpine AG (formerly Voest Alpine Stahl AG), can use for the blast furnace burden (Möllerzusatzmaterial). It should be recalled that the authorised ceiling for 2002 amounts to 700 000 tonnes of iron ore.

The standard-grade iron ore was sold at EUR 10.14 per tonne.

The low-grade material (Möllerzusatzmaterial) was sold at EUR 6.03 per tonne, fixed on the basis of the market price for lime gravel (Kalkschotter).

The average price for deliveries of iron ore and low-grade material (Möllerzusatzmaterial) results in EUR 8.05 per tonne. Including the costs of transport to voestalpine/Linz, the price charged was EUR 53.50 per tonne Fe.

The above price per tonne Fe for iron ore is higher than the comparable price for imported iron ore. It may therefore be concluded that the prices charged in the first half of 2002 were not lower than required under Article 2 of the Commission's Decision of 29 November 1995.

A detailed overview of production, production costs, sales, prices and losses is given in the Annex.

4. AID PAYMENTS IN RELATION TO AID AUTHORISED

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>TABLE POSITION>

* For details on the period 1995 - 2001 see previous Reports

In the first half of 2002 no aid was paid to the company.

5. EVOLUTION OF WORKFORCE

The plan for reducing the workforce is as follows:

>TABLE POSITION>

Departing from the original plan the total workforce was reduced to 174 by 30 June 2002. Reduction of workforce is therefore ahead of plan.

ANNEX

Comparison of production costs and revenues

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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION

Estimate of European Development Fund commitments, payments and contributions to be paid by Member States for 2012, 2013 and 2014

1. Introduction

In accordance with Article 7(1) and (5) of the Internal Agreement[1], the Commission presents in this document estimates of commitments, payments and contributions for the period 2012 to 2014[2], taking into account the forecasts of the European Investment Bank (EIB). The Member States contribute funds directly to the European Investment Bank for the instruments which it manages under the 9th and 10th EDFs (the Investment Facility and interest-rate subsidies). Therefore this communication draws a clear distinction between funds managed by the EIB under the 9th and 10th EDFs and those managed by the Commission.

The graph below shows the general trend in gross commitments and payments since 1999, including projections for 2013-2014 (Commission and EIB cumulated). It clearly shows the upward trend in commitments and disbursements since 1999, due to a speed up in the implementation of aid.

2. Financial forecasts for 2012 – 2014[3]

The following table provides an update of the commitments, the payments and of the contributions, based on our latest forecasts

3. Financial implementation forecasts for 2011 - 2013

The Commission and the EIB have updated their commitment and payment forecasts for 2012 and 2013 for each of the ACP[4] countries and the OCTs[5]. The result and the amount of contributions necessary to finance the EDF for 2012 to 2013 are set out in Attachments 1 to 3 where they are compared with the figures given in the June 2012 communication[6].

The contributions 2012 and 2013 by instalment and by Member State are presented in the Attachments 4 and 5.

[1] Internal Agreement between the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the financing of Community aid under the multiannual financial framework for the period 2008 to 2013 in accordance with the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement and on the allocation of financial assistance for the Overseas Countries and Territories to which Part Four of the EC Treaty applies (OJ L 247, 9.9.2006, p. 32).

[2] As the financial framework for the period after 2013 has not been agreed and is expected to have a material impact on the implementation figures, we prefer not to present any forecasts for commitments, payments and contributions for the years 2014 - 2016 (Commission and EIB).

[3] The figures for 2014 will be updated after the adoption of the financial framework 2014 - 2020.

[4] African, Caribbean and Pacific States

[5] Overseas Countries and Territories

[6] COM(2012)386 final of 10.07.2012
- General Introduction - General statement of revenue - General statement of revenue and expenditure by section

DRAFT General Budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016

DOCUMENTS

DRAFT General Budget

of the European Union

for the financial year 2016

— General introduction

— General statement of revenue

— General statement of revenue and expenditure by section:

— Section 1: European Parliament

— Section 2: European Council and Council

— Section 3: Commission

— Section 4: Court of Justice of the European Union

— Section 5: Court of Auditors

— Section 6: European Economic and Social Committee

— Section 7: Committee of the Regions

— Section 8: European Ombudsman

— Section 9: European Data Protection Supervisor

— Section 10: European External Action Service