CELEX: 32009D0015(01)
Language: en
Date: 2009-06-25 00:00:00
Title: 2009/508/EC: Decision of the European Central Bank of 25 June 2009 amending Decision ECB/2008/20 as regards the volume of euro coins that Austria may issue in 2009 (ECB/2009/15)

2.7.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 172/35
            
         
      DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
   
   of 25 June 2009
   amending Decision ECB/2008/20 as regards the volume of euro coins that Austria may issue in 2009
   (ECB/2009/15)
   (2009/508/EC)
   THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,
   Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 106(2) thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               The European Central Bank (ECB) has the exclusive right from 1 January 1999 to approve the volume of coins issued by the Member States that have adopted the euro (hereinafter the ‘participating Member States’).
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               On 26 May 2009 the Oesterreichische Nationalbank asked the ECB to approve an increase of EUR 160 million in the volume of euro coins that Austria may issue in 2009,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Increase in volume of euro coins
   The ECB approves the increase in the volume of euro coins that Austria may issue in 2009.
   As a result, the table in Article 1 of Decision ECB/2008/20 of the European Central Bank (1) is replaced by the following:
   
      
                  (million EUR)
               
            
                   
               
               
                  ‘Issuance of coins intended for circulation and issuance of collector coins (not intended for circulation) in 2009
               
            
                  Belgium
               
               
                  105,4
               
            
                  Germany
               
               
                  632,0
               
            
                  Ireland
               
               
                  65,5
               
            
                  Greece
               
               
                  85,7
               
            
                  Spain
               
               
                  390,0
               
            
                  France
               
               
                  252,5
               
            
                  Italy
               
               
                  234,3
               
            
                  Cyprus
               
               
                  22,5
               
            
                  Luxembourg
               
               
                  42,0
               
            
                  Malta
               
               
                  15,4
               
            
                  Netherlands
               
               
                  68,5
               
            
                  Austria
               
               
                  376,0
               
            
                  Portugal
               
               
                  50,0
               
            
                  Slovenia
               
               
                  27,0
               
            
                  Slovakia
               
               
                  131,0
               
            
                  Finland
               
               
                  60,0’
               
            
   Article 2
   Final provision
   This Decision is addressed to the participating Member States.
   
      Done at Frankfurt am Main, 25 June 2009.
      
         
            The President of the ECB
         
         Jean-Claude TRICHET
         
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 352, 31.12.2008, p. 58.