Resolution of the European Coal and Steel Community Consultative Committee concerning the 1995 ECSC budget
Date: 1994-10-06
Institutions: Consultative Committee of the European Coal and Steel Community
Subjects: ECSC operating budget, budget financing, budgetary expenditure, redevelopment aid













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31994Y1104(01)

Resolution of the European Coal and Steel Community Consultative Committee concerning the 1995 ECSC budget  


Official Journal C 308 , 04/11/1994 P. 0007 - 0007 





RESOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE concerning the 1995 ECSC budget (94/C 308/05) (adopted unanimously at the 315th session of 6 October 1994) THE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY (ECSC) - in accordance with its memorandum of 24 March 1994 concerning the future of the ECSC financial activities following its general memorandum of 20 November 1992,  - after examining the ECSC 1995 draft budget,  REQUESTS the Commission to review this draft in the light of the following considerations:  1. The priority remains, and should remain, the financing of the social measures (Article 56 - readaptation and extraordinary social volet for steel and coal), whose amounts should not be allowed to decrease.  2. At the same time, given the significant decrease already observed in the 1994 budget, a reduction of the budget allocated to research should not be envisaged. It is all the more so in the circumstances where, contrary to the spirit of a progressive  transition towards the EC Treaty, minimal conditions for a phasing-in into the general budget have not been met. The Consultative Committee, conscious that specific research should be maintained at an appropriate level, has constantly expressed the wish  that adequate funding be allocated to ECSC research - social research included - until the Treaty expires, with a view to ensuring the desirable transition between the ECSC and EC rules.  It should be remembered also that the ECSC Consultative Committee as well as the European Parliament (1) have requested a more responsive policy in this respect.  3. The level of expenditure for reconversion subsidies (Article 56) should be brought into line with the restrictive policy advocated in the Consultative Committee memorandum, given that ECSC employees and firms get very few advantages from these  activities and given that, as pointed out by the European Parliament, provision for such activities can be made from the general budget.  4. Without questioning the reduction of the levy, which is highly desirable considering the present situation of the coal and steel industries, the 1995 budget receipts might be increased:  - since from the examination of previous budget turn-outs in can be seen that the 'cancellations' item has often exceeded the forecasts,  - taking into account the budget modification resulting from the entry of new contributors following enlargement,  - since an additional release of the reserves can be looked for, as a consequence of a more restrictive lending policy (Article 56 and other loans).  (1) Resolution on the draft ECSC operational budget for 1994 (OJ No C 20, 24. 1. 1994).