CELEX: 31974D0067
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23 November 1973 granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the Treaty, to the Kingdom of Belgium for expenditure on vocational retraining operations carried out by the Fonds National de Reclassement Social des Handicapés

23 . 2. 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No L 52/ 1
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                                           (Acts whose publication is not obligatory)
                                                      COMMISSION
                                                    COMMISSION DECISION
                                                       of 23 November 1973
              granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the
              Treaty, to the Kingdom of Belgium for expenditure on vocational retraining operations
                      carried out by the Fonds National de Reclassement Social d'es Handicapes
                                              (ESF files Nos 71.065 , 71.123 , 72.020)
                                          (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                            (74/ 67/EEC )
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        and to the provisions adopted pursuant to that
COMMUNITIES,                                                          Regulation ;
Having regard to the Treaty                  establishing the
                                                                      Whereas, in accordance with Articles 1 and 3 of
European Economic Community;
                                                                      Regulation No 9 , the applications referred to above
                                                                      from the Kingdom of Belgium relate to vocational
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC )                  No        retraining     operations          carried       out  on   the
2396/71 ( 1 ) of 8 November 1971 implementing               the       responsibility and at the expense of the Fonds
Council Decision of 1 February 1971 (-) on                  the       National de Reclassement Social dei; Handicapes, a
reform of the European Social Fund , and                      in      body which was added to the list of public law
particular Article 12 thereof ;                                       bodies referred to in Article 18 of Regulation No 9
                                                                      by a Commission Decision of 4 March 1966 (5 )
Whereas in its applications of 28 July 1971 , 23                      concerning the updating of that list ;
December 1971 and 31 May 1972 the Kingdom of
Belgium requested assistance from the European                        Whereas the applications containing the information
Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the                    required under Article 20 of Regulation No 9 and
Treaty, for expenditure on vocational retraining                      relating to operations terminated during the period 30
operations amounting to a total of Bfrs 1 829 612 ;                   July 1969 to 31 December 1970 inclusive, were
                                                                      properly submitted within the time limit laid down
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 of Regulation ( EEC )                 in Article 19 of Regulation No 9 ;
No 2396/71 , such assistance is granted for
operations initialled before 1 May 1972 and
                                                                      Whereas the examination of those applications and
terminated before 1 July 1972, and whereas the
                                                                      the checking of their material and financial aspects,
applications for assistance submitted must he
                                                                      carried out pursuant to the provisions of
examined pursuant to the provisions of Council
                                                                       Commission Regulation No 113 /63 / EEC ((i) on the
 Regulation No 9 (;! ) of 25 August 1960, as last
                                                                       detailed rules for the examination and checking of
 amended by Council Regulation No 37/ 67/EEC (4 ),
                                                                       applications for assistance submitted to the
 (*) OJ No L 249, 10. 11 . 1971 , p . 54.
 (2) OJ No L 28 , 4 . 2. 1971 , p . 15 .
 (3) OJ No 56, 31 . 8 . 1960, p. 1189/60.                              (5 ) OJ No 46, 17. 3 . 1966, p . 631 /66 .
 (4 ) OJ No 33 , 24 . 2. 1967, p . 526/67.                              c: ) OJ No 153 , 24 . 10 . 1963 , p . 2563/63 .
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European Social Fund, revealed that these                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
applications comply with the conditions laid down
in the relevant rules, except, however, that certain                               Article 1
sums have been wrongly included in the total
expenditure as a result of an arithmetical error ;          The applications for assistance submitted to the
whereas the correction involves the sum of Bfrs             European Social Fund by the Kingdom of Belgium
7 367, which is to be deducted from the amount for          for expenditure by the Fonds National de
which the application was submitted ;                       Reclassement Social des Handicapés on vocational
                                                            retraining operations terminated during the period
Whereas it was also revealed that three persons had         30 July 1969 to 31 December 1970 inclusive, comply
not been registered, during their training period, at       with the rules governing the operation of the Fund
an employment agency as persons in search of                as regards the sum of Bfrs 1 539 273 . The remainder
employment, pursuant to Article 2 of Regulation No          of the expenditure contained in the applications
9 ; whereas, moreover, the training given to those          does not comply with those rules .
three persons formed part of the normal education
system especially for young people, which is
                                                                                   Article 2
excluded from receiving assistance from the Fund by
Article 3 (2) of the Regulation referred to above ;
                                                            The amount of assistance from the European Social
                                                            Fund to be granted pursuant to Article 125 of the
Whereas, consequently, no assistance from the Fund          Treaty to the Kingdom of Belgium for the Fonds
can be given for those three cases contained in the
                                                            National de Reclassement Social des Handicapés
applications, expenditure for which amounted to             shall be Bfrs 1 539 273 (equivalent to 30 785·46 u.a.).
Bfrs 282 972 ;
Whereas, consequently, the Fonds National de                                       Article 3
Reclassement Social des Handicapés is entitled to
receive assistance from the Fund for its expenditure        This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
provided that a total of Bfrs 290 339 (Bfrs 7 367           Belgium.
plus Bfrs 282 972) is deducted, and whereas the
amount of assistance to be granted by the Fund
pursuant to Article 125 of the Treaty is therefore          Done at Brussels, 23 November 1973 .
Bfrs 1 829 612 — Bfrs 290 339, i.e. Bfrs 1 539 273 ;
                                                                                     For the Commission
Whereas in its opinion of 3 May 1973 the                                                The President
Committee of the European Social Fund reached the
same conclusions, for the reasons given above ;                                    Francois-Xavier ORTOLI