CELEX: 51977PC0314
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-04
Title: MODIFICATION of the proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION on Community financial measures to promote the use of coal for electricity generation (COM(76)648 final/2 of 17 January 1977 (presented by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of article 149 of the EEC Treaty)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
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DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (77) 314
Vol. 1977/0104
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 ---pagebreak---  COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                      COM(77)314 final.
                                                 Brussels . July 4 « 1977
                           MODIFICATION
    of the proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION on Community financial measures
    to promote the use of coal for electricity generation (COM(76)648 final/2
                             of 17 January 1977
            (presented by the Commission to the Council pursuant
                to the second paragraph of article 149 of
                              the EEC Treaty)
COM177)  314 final
 ---pagebreak--- In its original formulation, Article 5 or the proposal for a Regulation
on Community financial measures to promote the use of coal for electricity-
generation provides priority in a general form for investment projects
for which the use of Community coal is anticipated .   In the course of
the examination of the proposal by the European Parliament t it was considered
appropriate to define the proportion of commitment authorisations available
eaoh finkricial year to be set aside for such projects .
The attached proposal for . an amendment defines the priority to the effect
that 20£ ef the available commitment authorisations are set aside for
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projects for which, the. use of Community coal is anticipated and which
failed to qualify in the open competition for the remaining 80% of
available Commitment authorisations .
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 ---pagebreak--- fBXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION 07 THE                                  AMESDED
         EUROPEAN C0MMIMITIE3 ( l )                                      TEXT
                        Council Regulation on Community financial measures to
                        promote the use of coal for electrioity generation
                        Explanatory Memorandum . Preamble and Articles 1-4 unchanged
                  Article 5                                          Article 5
In considering applications for grants , the         In considering applications for grants , the
Commission is to be guided by the coal-burn          Commission is to be guided by the coal-burn
plans submitted to the effeot that the               plans submitted under Article 4 of this
higher the proposed ceal-burn in relation            Regulation to the effect that the higher
to the amount of the grant , the higher the          the proposed coal-burn in relation to the
priority given to the project . However,             amount of the grant applied for , the higher
priority is to be given to projects in               the priority of the project ,
regard to which the electricity undertaking
 is prepared to commit itself to use                 80^ of the commitment . authorisation available
principally Community coal *                         in each financial year will be allocated in-
                                                     accordance with this principle without
                                                     regard to the origin of the coal to be
                                                     used . The remaining 20^ will be allocated
                                                     to projects in regard to which electricity
                                                     undertakings commit themselves to use not
                                                     less than 90^ Community coal each year of
                                                     the coal-bum plan .
                                        Artioles 6-8 unchanged
 ( 1 ) For oomplete text see O.J , No . C22 of 29,1,1977 , page 4