Commission Decision No 2652/98/ECSC of 9 December 1998 fixing the rate of the levies for the 1999 financial year and amending Decision No 3/52/ECSC on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the Treaty
Date: 1998-12-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ECSC, ECSC levy, ECSC operating budget, financial year

10. 12. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 335/49

COMMISSION DECISION No 2652/98/ECSC

of 9 December 1998

fixing the rate of the levies for the 1999 financial year and amending Decision No
3/52/ECSC on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in
Articles 49 and 50 of the Treaty

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Article 2

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles 49
and 50 thereof,

in view of

Whereas,
the variations in average values
recorded during the reference period, Article 2 of
Decision No 3/52/ECSC of the High Authority (1), as last
amended by Commission Decision No 2618/97/ECSC (2),
should be amended;

Whereas the requirements of the European Coal and Steel
Community are estimated in the operating budget for the
1999 financial year at EUR 196 million; whereas that
budget, which was adopted by the Commission on 9
December 1998 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 1999,
namely EUR 0 million;

Whereas the estimated yield of the levies at a rate of
0,01 % is EUR 5,946 million,

Decision No 3/52/ECSC is hereby amended as follows:

Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

The average value in euro of the products on which
the levies are assessed shall, from 1 January 1999, be
as follows:

Product

Average value

(EUR)

Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke
derived from brown coal

Hard coal of all categories

76,80

50,10

than that used for

177,35

Pig iron other
making ingots

Steel in ingots

274,85

458,08'

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Finished products and end products of
iron and steel as described in Annex I
to the Treaty

The rate of the levies on output from 1 January 1999
shall be 0 % of the figures used as the basis of assessment
for such levies.

Article 3

This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 1999.

This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.

Done at Brussels, 9 December 1998.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ ECSC 1, 30. 12. 1952, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 353, 24. 12. 1997, p. 20.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

10. 12. 98

ANNEX

ECSC OPERATING BUDGET FOR 1999

(million EUR)

Requirements

Resources

Operations to be financed from resources
for the financial year
(non-repayable)

Forecast

Resources for the financial year

Forecast

1. Administrative expenditure

2. Aid for redeployment (Article 56)

3. Aid for research (Article 55) (1)

3.1. Steel

3.2. Coal

5,0

75,0

84,0

1. Current resources

1.1. Yield from levy at a rate of 0,00 %

1.2. Net balance

1.3. Fines and surcharges for late payment

1.4. Miscellaneous

56,0

28,0

4.

Social measures — coal (Article 56)

32,0

2. Cancellation of commitments not likely to be

implemented

3. Unused resources from previous year

4. Drawings on provision for financing ECSC

budget

5.

Exceptional resources

0,0

80,0

p.m.

5,0

57,0

p.m.

54,0

p.m.

Total budget

196,0

Total budget

196,0

(1) Including projects with an impact on technical measures to combat harmful effects at the workplace and around steel plants (indicative amount of EUR 4

million), industrial hygiene and mine safety (indicative amount of EUR 3 million).