CELEX: 31990S3681
Language: en
Date: 1990-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision No 3681/90/ECSC of 18 December 1990 fixing the rate of the levies for the 1991 financial year and amending Decision No 3-52 on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty

No L 357/ 14                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                   20 . 12. 90
                                     COMMISSION DECISION No 3681/90/ECSC
                                                  of 18 December 1990
                fixing the rate of the levies for the 1991 financial year and amending Decision
                No 3-52 on the amount of and metihods for applying the levies provided for in
                                         Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          whereas the estimated yield of the levies at a rate of
                                                                    0,01 % is ECU 6,34 million,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles 49
and 50 thereof,
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas, in view of the variations in average values                                           Article 1
recorded during the reference period, Decision No 3-52
of 23 December 1952 on the amount of and methods for                The rate of the levies on output from 1 January 1991
applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of           shall be 0,29 % of the figures used as the basis of assess­
the ECSC Treaty (') should be amended ;                             ment for such levies.
                                                                                               Article 2
Whereas the requirements of the European Coal and Steel
Community are estimated in the operating budget for the             Article 2 of Decision No 3-52, as last amended by Article
1991 financial year at ECU 482 million ; whereas that               2 of Decision No 3978/89/ECSC (2), is hereby amended to
budget, which was adopted by the Commission of the                  read as follows :
European Communities on 13 December 1990 in the                          Article 2
form shown in the Annex to this Decision, indicates the
amount of income to be provided from levies in the                       The average value in ecus of the products on which
course of the financial year 1991 , namely ECU 184                       the levies are assessed shall, from 1 January 1991 , be
million ;                                                                as follows :
                                                                                                              (ECU)
                                                     Product                                       Average value
                   Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke derived from brown coal                         57,97
                   Hard coal of all categories                                                         81,19
                   Pig iron other than that used for making ingots                                    203,60
                   Steel in ingots                                                                    282,01
                   Finished products and end products of iron and steel as described in Annex
                   I to the Treaty                                                                    470,01 '
                                                            Article 3
                Article 4 of Decision No 3-52, as last amended by Article 3 of Decision No 3978/89/
                ECSC, is hereby amended to read as follows :
                    Article 4
                    The scale provided for in Article 2(4) of Decision No 2-52 shall accordingly be as
                    follows, the figures being given in ecus :
(') OJ of the ECSC No 1 , 30 . 12. 1952, p. 4.                      (2) OJ No L 380, 29. 12. 1989, p. 14.
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                                                                                                Assessment January 1991
                                                Product                                          and subsequent months,
                                                                                               and collection March 1991
                                                                                                 and subsequent months
               Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke derived from brown coal (')                           0,16811
               Hard coal of all categories (2)                                                           0,23545
               Pig iron other than that used for making ingots                                           0,4421 1
               Steel in ingots                                                                           0,72012
               Finished products and end products of iron and steel as described in
               Annex I to the Treaty                                                                     0,33093
               (') For purposes of the deductions provided for in Article 3 the levy fixed above shall be applied to the net
                   tonnage of brown coal and semi-coke derived from brown coal, less 3 % .
               (2) For purposes of the deductions provided for in Article 3 the levy fixed above shall be applied to the net
                   tonnage of hard coal as defined in Article 1 of Decision No 2-52, less 14 % .
              The amount of the levies per tonne to be paid in the currencies of the Member States
              of the Community shall be determined in accordance with Article 3 of Decision No
              3289/75/ECSC, as amended by Decision No 3334/80/ECSC.'
                                                             Article 4
            This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 1991 .
            This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
            Done at Brussels, 18 December 1990.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                   Peter SCHMIDHUBER
                                                                              Member of the Commission
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                                                                        ANNEX
                                                    ECSC OPERATING BUDGET FOR 1991
                                                                                                                               (ECU million)
                         Requirements                         Estimates                           Resources                    Estimates
  Operations to be financed from current                                      Resources for the financial year
  resources (non-repayable)
                                                         Il                   1 . Current resources :                        I
  1 . Administrative expenditure                              5
                                                                                  1.1 . Yield from at 0,29 % levy                 184
                                                         II                       1.2. Net balance from previous year             180
  2. Aid for redeployment (Article 56)                      145
                                                                                  1.3. Fines and surcharges for late payment        2
                                                         Il                       1.4. Miscellaneous                             p.m.
  3. Aid for research (Article 55)                          135
                                                                            \                                                I
      3.1 . Steel                                                    62 (')   2. Cancellation of commitments unlikely to be  l
      3.2. Coal                                                      55 (■)       implemented                                      30
      3.3 . Social                                                   18 0   \                                                I
                                                                              3 . Unused resources carried over from 1990          86
  4. Interest subsidies                                     127                                                              I
      4.1 . Investment (Article 54)                                  29 (')   4. Exceptional revenue for social measures     I
      4.2. Conversion (Article 56)                                   98           connected with restructuring ECSC indus
\                                                        Il                       tries                                          p.m .
  5. Social    measures connected with        restruc                       \                                                I
      turing of the steel industry (Article 56)              20               5. Contingency reserve                             p.m.
  6 . Social   measures    connected with     restruc                                                                        l
      turing of the coal industry (Article 56)               50
                                                                                                                             I
                                                            482                                                                  482
  Operations financed by loans from non­                                      Origin of non-borrowed funds
  borrowed funds
                                                                              6. Special reserve and former ECSC Pension
  7. Workers' housing                                        16                   Fund                                             16
  (') Aid for projects with a specific impact on the environment :
      Heading      3.1 :  11
                   3.2 :  16
                   3.3 :   7
                   4.1 :  17
                 Total :  51