ARCHIVESHISTORIQUES
DELACOMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEEDES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM(77)196
Vol.1977/0078

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COMMISSION OFTHEEUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COM(77)196 final.
Brussels,26May1977
Draft
COMMISSION DECISION ECSC
alteringtheduedateforcollectionofthelevy
ontheproductionofcoalandsteel.
C0M(77)196final.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
DraftCommissionDecisionalteringtheduedateforpaymentofthelevy
ontheproductionofcoalandsteel
Inviewofthedifficultiesfacedbythesteelmarketandthelengthof
timeelapsingbetweenthemanufactureoftheproductsonwhichlevies
arechargedandthereceiptofproceeds(usuallyafulltwomonths),it
isproposedthattheconditionsforcollectionofECSClevieshealtered
andtheduedate-whichhassofar"beenthetwenty-fifth dayofthemonth
followingthatofproduction-"befixedatthetwenty-fifth ofthe
secondmonthfollowingthatofproduction.
Althoughthismeasurewill"bringsomerelieftoundertakings (approximately
7500000ECJA),itwillalsomeanareductioninECSCcashresourcesand
acorresponding lossininterest-whichcouldamountto0.£fmELTAper
year.Theproposedextensionoftheperiodbetweenthedateofproduction
andthedateofpaymentofthecorresponding levydoesnot,however,
affecttheresourcesenteredinthe1977ECSC"budget,sincethelatter
refertothemonthofproductionandnottothemonthofpayment.
Finally,thismeasureismoreinkeepingwitheconomicrealities.
Thisdecisionrequiresadecisionto"betaken "bytheCommissionunder
Article50(2)oftheECSCTreaty,afterconsultingtheCouncil;the
draftofthisdecisionisannexedhereto.

Draft
Commission Décision 'ECSC
alteringtheduedateforcollectionofthelevyontheproductionof
coalandsteel.
THECOMMISSION OPTHEEUROPEANCOMMUNITIES ,
HavingregardtotheTreatyestablishing theEuropeanCoalandSteel
Community,andinparticularArticles49and50thereof,
HavingconsultedtheCouncil,
Whereastheperiodoftime"betweenthemanufacture oftheproductson
■whichleviesarechargedandthecollectionoftheproceedsisusually
afulltwomonths,
HASADOPTEDTHISDECISION:
Article 1
ThereisaddedtothesecondparagraphofArticle4ofECSCDecision
2/52^^thefollowing:
"Witheffectfrom1977paymentoflevies
shallbedueonthetwenty-fifth dayofthesecondmonthfollowing
themonthofproduction".
ThisDecisionshallbebindinginitsentiretyanddirectlyapplicable
inallMemberStates.
DoneatBrussels, 1977
(1)OJNo1f-30.12.1952,p.3