Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prolongation of the ECSC steel statistics system after the expiry of the ECSC Treaty
Date: 2002-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: ECSC Treaty, iron, iron and steel industry, iron and steel product, production capacity, statistics, steel

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Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prolongation of
the ECSC steel statistics system after the expiry of the ECSC Treaty

(2002/C 203 E/04)

COM(2002) 160 final — 2002/0078(COD)

(Submitted by the Commission on 27 March 2002)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF
THE EUROPEAN UNION,

gation of the ECSC statistics system after the expiry of the
ECSC Treaty until 31 December 2002.

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 285(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(6) The Statistical Programme Committee (SPC), set up by
Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom (1) has been consulted in
accordance with Article 3 of the aforesaid Decision,

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee,

HAVE ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
251 of the Treaty,

Article 1

The aim of this Regulation is to ensure the prolongation of the
ECSC statistics system after the expiry of the ECSC Treaty and
until 31 December 2002.

Whereas:

(1) It is necessary to have statistics on the steel

industry in
to implement Community policies on the steel

order
industry.

(2) The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) Treaty

expires on 23 July 2002.

(3) Community steel statistics are collected within the ECSC
statistics system until the expiry of the ECSC Treaty.

(4) Users of steel statistics need continuous series for the

second half of the year 2002.

the Conference of

(5) Declaration 24 annexed to the Final Act of 26 February
the
2001 of
invited the
Governments of
Council to ensure, under Article 2 of the Protocol on the
financial consequences of the expiry of the ECSC Treaty
and on the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, the prolon-

the Member States has

the Representatives of

Article 2

Undertakings engaged in the production of iron and steel in
the steel sector, as defined in the ECSC Treaty, shall be
required, with effect from 24 July 2002, to keep supplying
the Commission, for the reference year 2002, with the statistics
(questionnaires) drawn up by the decisions and recommen-
dation listed in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 3

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of
the European
Communities. This Regulation shall apply from 24 July 2002.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

(1) OJ L 181, 28.6.1989, p. 47.

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ANNEX

STATISTICS

Statistics shall be supplied to the Commission as prescribed in the following questionnaires drawn up by the decisions
and recommendation listed below and in accordance with the specified conditions:

1. Commission Decision No 1566/86/ECSC of 24 February 1986 on iron and steel statistics, as last amended by

Commission Decision No 1273/2000/ECSC of 16 June 2000:

— Questionnaire 2-10 on production of pig iron;

— Questionnaire 2-11 on crude steel production;

— Questionnaire 2-13 on production of flat and long steel products;

— Questionnaire 2-14 on stocks of ingots, semi-finished, flat and long steel products;

— Questionnaire 2-31 on changes of employment in the iron and steel industry (ECSC);

— Questionnaire 2-32 on working hours in the iron and steel industry (ECSC);

— Questionnaire 2-50 on steel and cast iron scrap balance;

— Questionnaire 2-51 on consumption of raw materials for production of crude iron;

— Questionnaire 2-54 on consumption of raw materials in steel works;

— Questionnaire 2-56 on receipts of ECSC steel products direct or via merchants;

— Questionnaire 2-58 on fuel and energy consumption and balance for electrical energy in the steel industry;

— Questionnaire 2-71 on steel deliveries to Community countries and total deliveries;

— Questionnaire 2-72 on steel deliveries to third countries;

— Questionnaire 2-73 on deliveries of steel on the national market by product and by consumer industry;

— Questionnaire 2-74 on deliveries of alloy and non-alloy special steels by categories in Community countries and

third countries;

— Questionnaire 2-76 on total deliveries of ECSC Treaty products by value;

— Questionnaire 2-79 I on deliveries and new orders for sales of crude iron;

— Questionnaire 2-80 on new orders of steel from Community countries and third countries;

— Questionnaire 2-81 on new orders of steel from third countries;

2. Commission Decision No 81/3302/ECSC of 18 November 1981 on the information to be furnished by steel

undertakings about their investments:

— Questionnaire 2-60 on investment expenditure in the iron and steel industry (ECSC);

— Questionnaire 2-61 on capacity in the iron and steel industry (ECSC);

3. Commission Recommendation No 780/94/ECSC of 16 November 1994 concerning steel merchants statistics:

— Questionnaire 3-70 on receipts, deliveries and stocks of iron and steel products by stockholders.