Commission Decision No 2749/2000/ECSC of 13 December 2000 fixing the rate of the levies for the 2001 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: 2000-12-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ECSC levy, ECSC operating budget, financial year, iron and steel product

16.12.2000

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION DECISION No 2749/2000/ECSC

of 13 December 2000

fixing the rate of the levies for the 2001 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,

Article 2 of Decision No 3/52/ECSC is replaced by the
following:

Whereas:

‘Article 2

The average value in euro of the products on which the
from 1 January 2001, be as
levies are assessed shall,
follows:

(1)

(2)

In view of 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 2787/1999/ECSC (2), should
be amended.

the European Coal and Steel
The requirements of
Community are estimated in the operating budget for
the 2001 financial year at EUR 195 million. The budget,
which was adopted by the Commission on 13 December
2000 in the form shown in the Annex to this Decision,
indicates the amount of income to be yielded by levies
in 2001, namely EUR 0 million.

Product

Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke derived
from hard coal

Hard coal of all categories

Pig iron other than that used for making ingots

(EUR/tonne)

Average
value

69,38

45,50

178

227

378’

(3)

The estimated yield of
EUR 4,814 million,

levies at a rate of 0,01 % is

Steel

in ingots

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 2001 shall be
0 % of the figures used as the basis of assessment for such
levies.

This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 2001.

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 13 December 2000.

For the Commission

Michaele SCHREYER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ ECSC 1, 30.12.1952, p. 4.
(2) OJ L 336, 29.12.1999, p. 6.

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ANNEX

ECSC OPERATING BUDGET FOR 2001

Requirements

Resources

(million EUR)

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) (1)

3. Aid for research (Article 55) (2)

3.1 Steel

3.2 Coal

5,0

1. Current resources

80,0

79,0

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

23,0

4.

Social measures — coal (Article 56)

31,0

2. Cancellation of commitments not likely to be imple-

mented

3. Drawings on provision for financing ECSC budget

p.m.

48,0

p.m.

3,0

36,0

108,0

Total budget

195,0

Total budget

195,0

(1) The indicative breakdown for aid for redeployment is EUR 55 million for coalworkers and EUR 25 million for steelworkers.
(2) 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).