CELEX: 51982DC0008
Language: en
Date: 1982-01-18
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 1/82 (Non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (82) 8
Vol. 1982/0001
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 ---pagebreak---         COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1982                      COM(82)8 final.
                SECTION III - COMMISSION                     Brussels , 8 January 1982 .
                                           TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 1 / 82
                                               ( Non-compulsory expenditure )
                                                                                   ECU
                                                                 Commitment         Payment
                                                               appropriations    appropriations
                  1 ) TRANSFER FROM
                      - Part Β -
                      CHAPTER 73 - RESEARCH AND
                                    INVESTMENT
                      Article 730- Direct action - Joint
                                    Research Centre ( JRC )
                                    Joint programme
                      Item 7300  - Nuclear safety -
                                    Direct action               7.000.000          7.000.000
                2 ) TRANSFER TO
                     - Part A -
                     CHAPTER 26 - EXPENDITURE ON STUDIES ,
                                  SURVEYS AND CONSULTA­
                                                                                             • , .·
                                  TIONS
                     Article 269- Monitoring application
                                  of certain steel
                                  industry measures                        7.000.000
                The Financial Controller approved this proposal on 6th January in
                accordance with Articles 21 ( 4 )/ 93(1 ) and 94(1 ) of the Financial
                Regulation and certified that the appropriations are available .
COM ( 82 ) 8 final .
 ---pagebreak---                             GROUNDS
1 . To help cope with the declared manifest crisis on 24 June 1981 ,
    the Commission adopted Decision No 1831 / 81 / ECSC ( OJ L 180 , 1.7.1981 )
    establishing for undertakings in the iron and steel industry a
    monitoring system and a nc#* system of production quotas in respect
    of certain products .
  . The decision applies from 1 July 1981 tot 30 June 1982 and is the
    sequel to Decision No 2794 / 8Q / ECSC of 31 October 1980 ( OJ L 291 ,
    31.10.1981 ) establishing a system of steel production quotas for
    undertakings in the iron and steel industry .
2 . The Commission must be able to make on-the- spot checks on the accuracy
    of the information which firms and their works are obliged to provide
    and may engage outside staff under a guarantee of professional
    secrecy .
    The Commission has contracts for the services of 33 production engineers
    seconded from steel firms and auditors from firms of accountants .
3 . Experience of the first system from October 1980 to June 1981 and of
    the first six months of the present system from July 1981 shows
    the cost of these checks to be about 1 million ECU per month .
    The 1982 budget contains 7 million ECU to cover six months® operation
    of the system plus one month 's work running it down .
    Expenditure on these checks , whose main legal basis is Article 47 ECSC ,
    is charged to Article 269 of the budget ( Monitoring application of
    certain steel industry measures ), where 11.900.000 ECU was entered in
    1981 and a token entry in 1982 .
4 . The Commission must ensure that Decision No 1831 / 81 / ECSC of 24 June
    1981 may be implemented continuously in the new financial year and
    provide the means for this to be done .
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5 . Decision No 1831 / 81 / ECSC of 24 June 1981 was taken after the
     preliminary draft budget for 1982 was adopted ( 25 May 1981 ) and
     transmitted to the budgetary authority ( 15 June ).
     The Commission will request the appropriations required to implement
     its decision in 1982 in the first amending and / or supplementary
     budget for 1982 .
6 . In the meantime / the Commi ssion has made an internal transfer of
     2 million ECU within Chapter 26 to ensure the uninterrupted implementa
     tion of the Decision . This must now be returned to its original
     heading if the study programme , of which the Commission is to approve
     the first tranche in March , is not to be held up .
7 . The budgetary authority is also requested to approve the provisional
     transfer of 7 million ECU to Article 269 from the appropriations for
     research and investment in Chapter 73 ( Research and Investment ),
     Article 730 ( Direct action - Joint Research Centre ( JRC ) - Joint
     programme ), Item 7300 (Nuclear safety ), which was allocated
     77.779.000 ECU in commitment appropriations and 70.044.000 ECU in
     payment appropriations .
     This movement between chapters will not have any adverse effect on
   . the JRC research programme since the bulk of the appropriations is
     for staff and operating expenditure and so will be used at a steady
     rhythm throughout the year . As the amount transferred represents
     only about one tenth of the total allocation, it will not need to be
     returned until , say, September .