CELEX: 32010D0025
Language: en
Date: 2010-11-29 00:00:00
Title: 2010/751/EU: Decision of the European Central Bank of 29 November 2010 on the approval of the volume of coin issuance in 2011 (ECB/2010/25)

4.12.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 318/52
            
         DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
   of 29 November 2010
   on the approval of the volume of coin issuance in 2011
   (ECB/2010/25)
   (2010/751/EU)
   THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 128(2) thereof,
   Having regard to Council Decision 2010/416/EU of 13 July 2010 in accordance with Article 140(2) of the Treaty on the adoption by Estonia of the euro on 1 January 2011 (1), and in particular Article 1 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 whose currency is the euro.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The derogation in favour of Estonia referred to in Article 4 of the 2003 Act of Accession has been abrogated with effect from 1 January 2011.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               The 16 Member States whose currency is the euro and Estonia have submitted to the ECB for approval their estimates of the volume of euro coins to be issued in 2011, supplemented by explanatory notes on the forecasting methodology,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Approval of the volume of euro coins to be issued in 2011
   The ECB hereby approves the volume of euro coins to be issued by the Member States whose currency is the euro in 2011 as described in the following table:
   
               (EUR million)
            
         
                
            
            
               Issuance of coins intended for circulation and issuance of collector coins (not intended for circulation) in 2011
            
         
               Belgium
            
            
               178,3
            
         
               Germany
            
            
               629
            
         
               Estonia
            
            
               48,4
            
         
               Ireland
            
            
               44,4
            
         
               Greece
            
            
               54,5
            
         
               Spain
            
            
               180
            
         
               France
            
            
               300
            
         
               Italy
            
            
               262,4
            
         
               Cyprus
            
            
               15,6
            
         
               Luxembourg
            
            
               30
            
         
               Malta
            
            
               6,8
            
         
               Netherlands
            
            
               64
            
         
               Austria
            
            
               277
            
         
               Portugal
            
            
               30
            
         
               Slovenia
            
            
               36
            
         
               Slovakia
            
            
               42,2
            
         
               Finland
            
            
               60
            
         Article 2
   Final provision
   This Decision is addressed to the Member States whose currency is the euro and Estonia.
   
      Done at Frankfurt am Main, 29 November 2010.
      
         
            The President of the ECB
         
         Jean-Claude TRICHET
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 196, 28.7.2010, p. 24.