Commission Decision No 3747/91/ECSC of 18 December 1991 fixing the rate of the levies for the 1992 financial year and amending Decision No 3-52 on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty
Date: 1991-12-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ECSC levy, iron and steel product, steel













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31991S3747

Commission Decision No 3747/91/ECSC of 18 December 1991 fixing the rate of the levies for the 1992 financial year and amending Decision No 3-52 on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty  


Official Journal L 352 , 21/12/1991 P. 0057 - 0059 





COMMISSION DECISION No 3747/91/ECSC  of 18 December 1991  fixing the rate of the levies for the 1992 financial year and amending Decision No 3-52 on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC  TreatyTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles 49 and 50 thereof,  Whereas, in view of the variations in average values recorded during the reference period, Decision No 3-52 of 23 December 1952 on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty (1) should be  amended;  Whereas the requirements of the European Coal and Steel Community are estimated in the operating budget for the 1992 financial year at ECU 484 million; whereas that budget, which was adopted by the Commission of the European Communities on 18 December  1991 in the form shown in the Annex to this Decision, indicates the amount of income to be provided from levies in the course of the financial year 1992, namely ECU 154,5 million;  Whereas the estimated yield of the levies at a rate of 0,01 % is ECU 5,72 million,  HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:  Article 1  The rate of the levies on output from 1 January 1992 shall be 0,27 % of the figures used as the basis of assessment for such levies.  Article 2  Article 2 of Decision No 3-52, as last amended by Article 2 of Decision No 3681/90/ECSC (2), is hereby amended to read as follows:  'Article 2  The average value in ecus of the products on which the levies are assessed shall, from 1 January 1992, be as follows:  (ECU)      Product  Average value     Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke derived from brown coal  65,32  Hard coal of all categories  81,35  Pig iron other than that used for making ingots  202,81  Steel in ingots  259,78  Finished products and end  products of iron and steel as described in Annex I to the Treaty  432,97'     Article 3  Article 4 of Decision No 3-52, as last amended by Article 3 of Decision No 3681/90/ECSC, is hereby amended to read as follows:  'Article 4  The scale provided for in Article 2 (4) of Decision No 2-52 shall accordingly be as follows, the figures being given in ecus:      Product  Assessment January 1992  and subsequent months,  and collection March 1992  and subsequent months     Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke derived from brown coal (1)  0,17636  Hard coal of all categories (2)  0,21965  Pig iron other than that used for making ingots  0,40921  Steel in ingots  0,61025  Finished products and end  products of iron and steel as described in Annex I to the Treaty  0,28384    (1) For purposes of the deductions provided for in Article 3 the levy fixed above shall be applied to the net tonnage of brown coal and semi-coke derived from brown coal,  less 3 %.  (2) For purposes of the deductions provided for in Article 3 the levy fixed above shall be applied to the net tonnage of hard coal as defined in Article 1 of Decision No 2-52, less 14 %.   The amount of the levies per tonne to be paid in the currencies of the Member States of the Community shall be determined in accordance with Article 3 of Decision No 3289/75/ECSC, as amended by Decision No 3334/80/ECSC.'  Article 4  This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 1992. This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.  Done at Brussels, 18 December 1991. For the Commission  Peter SCHMIDHUBER  Member of the Commission   (1) OJ of the ECSC No 1, 30. 12. 1952, p. 4. (2) OJ No L 357, 20. 12. 1990, p. 14.    ANNEX  ECSC OPERATING BUDGET FOR 1992  (ECU million)        Requirements  Estimates  Resources  Estimates       Operations to be financed from current resources (non-repayable)  1. Administrative expenditure  2. Aid for redeployment (Article 56)  3. Aid for research (Article 55)  3.1. Steel  3.2. Coal  3.3. Social  4. Interest subsidies  4.1. Investment (Article 54)  4.2. Conversion (Article 56)  5. Social measures connected with restructuring of the steel industry (Article 56)  6. Social measures connected with restructuring of the coal industry (Article 56)  5  170  123  131  5  50  58 (1)  50 (1)  15 (1)  25 (1)  106 (2)  (2)  Resources for the financial year  1. Current resources:  1.1. Yield from at 0,27 % levy  1.2. Net balance from previous year  1.3. Fines and surcharges for late payment  1.4. Miscellaneous  2. Cancellation of commitments unlikely to be implemented  3. Unused resources carried over from 1991  4. Exceptional revenue for social measures connected with restructuring ECSC industries  5. Contingency reserve  154,5  262,5  p.m.  p.m.  45  22  p.m.  p.m.    484      484   Operations financed by loans from non-borrowed funds  7. Workers' housing  18   Origin of non-borrowed funds  6. Special reserve and former ECSC Pension Fund  18        (1) Aid for projects with a specific impact on the environment:  (2) Amounts for the RECHAR programme:  Heading 3.1:  3.2:  3.3:  4.1:  Total:  8  16  3  19   46   Heading 4.2:  6 :  Total:  50  50   100