CELEX: 31977S2996
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision No 2996/77/ECSC of 21 December 1977 fixing the rate of the levies for the 1978 financial year and amending Decision No 3/52/ECSC on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty

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                                     COMMISSION DECISION No 2996/77/ECSC
                                                   of 21 December 1977
             fixing the rate of the levies for the 1978 financial year and amending Decision
             No 3/52/ECSC on the amount of and methods for applying the levies provided
                                     for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                      Article 1
Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles
49, 50 and 78 thereof,
                                                                 The rate of the levies on output from 1 January 1978
Having regard to the Treaty of 8 April 1965 esta­                shall be 0-29 % of the figures used as the basis of
blishing a single Council and a single Commission of             assessment for such levies.
the European Communities (!), and in particular Arti­
cles 20 and 21 thereof,
Having regard to Decision No 3115/76/ECSC of 20                                            Article 2
December 1976 fixing the rate of the levies for the
1977 financial year and amending Decision No 3/52/
ECSC of 23 December 1952 on the amount of and                    Article 2 of Decision No 3/52/ECSC, as amended by
methods for applying the levies provided for in Arti­            Article   2 of Decision       No 3115/76/ECSC of 20
cles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty (2),                           December 1976, is hereby amended to read as
                                                                 follows :
Having regard to Decision No 1687/77/ECSC of 22
July 1977 supplementing Decision No 2/52/ECSC of
23 December 1952 determining the mode of assess­                 The average value in European units of account of the
ment and collection of the levies provided for in Arti­          products on which the levies are assessed shall from 1
cles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty (3),                           January 1978 be as follows :
Whereas, in view of the variations in average values                                 Product                   Average value
recorded during the reference period, Decision No
3/52/ECSC of 23 December 1952 on the amount of
                                                                 Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke derived
the methods for applying the levies provided for in              from brown coal                                   2408
Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty should be
amended ;                                                        Hard coal of all categories                       38-55
                                                                 Pig iron other than that used for making
                                                                 ingots                                          145-94
Whereas the requirements of the European Coal and
Steel Community are estimated in the operational                 Steel in ingots                                 168-94
budget for the 1978 financial year at 152 million Euro­          Finished products and end products of iron
pean units of account ; whereas that budget, which               and steel as described in Annex I to the
was adopted by the Commission of the European                    Treaty                                          281-56
Communities on 22 December 1977 in the form
shown in the Annex to this Decision , indicates the
amount of income to be provided from levies in the
course of the financial year 1978 , namely 100 million                                     Article 3
European units of account ;
Whereas the estimated yield of the levies at a rate of           Article 4 of Decision No 3/ 52/ ECSC, as last amended
0-01 % is 3-45 million European units of account ;               by Article 4 of Decision No 3115/76/ECSC of 20
                                                                 December 1976, is hereby amended to read as
                                                                 follows :
Having noted the opinion delivered on 14 December
 1977 by the European Parliament,
(') OJ No 152, 13 . 7 . 1967, p. 2 .
                                                                 The scale provided for in Article 2 (4) of Decision No
(2) OJ No L 352, 22. 12. 1976, p. 8 .                            2/ 52/ ECSC shall accordingly be as follows, the figures
 3 OJ No L 187, 27 . 7 . 1977, p. 35 .                           being given in European units of account :
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                                                                                                                     Assessment January 1978
                                                                                                                     and subsequent months
                                                       Product
                                                                                                                    and collection March 1978
                                                                                                                      and subsequent months
           Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke derived from brown coal (*)                                                  006983
           Hard coal of all categories (2)                                                                                  01 1 180
           Pig iron other than that used for making ingots                                                                  0-33669
           Steel in ingots                                                                                                  0-43962
           Finished products and end products of iron and steel as described in
           Annex 1 to the Treaty                                                                                            0-19824
           (') For purposes of the deductions provided for in Article 3, the levy 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/ ECSC, 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 compliance with Article 3 of Decision No
           3289/75/ ECSC .
                                                                         Article 4
           This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 1978 .
           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 21 December 1977 .
                                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                                         The President
                                                                                                         Roy JENKINS
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                                                             ANNEX
                                      ECSC OPERATIONAL BUDGET FOR 1978
                                                                                                             (in million EVA)
                    Requirements                  Estimates                         Resources                   Estimates
Operations to be financed from the                              Resources of the financial year
resources of the financial year (non-re­
coverable)                                                      1 . Current resources
                                                                    1.1 . Levy yield at 0-29 %                      100
1 . Administrative expenditure                    5                 1.2. Interest on investments and on
                                                                          loans from non-borrowed funds              18
2. Aid to resettlement (Article 56)             60                  1.3. Fines and late payment surcharges    token entry
                                                                    1.4. Miscellaneous                        token entry
3. Aid to research (Article 55)                 41
    3.1 . Steel                                             16  2. Cancellation of commitments unlikely
    3.2. Coal                                               16      to be used                                         2
    3.3 . Social                                             9
                                                                3 . Reassessment of assets and liabilities    token entry
4. Interest subsidies                           40
    4.1 . Investment (Article 54)                           15  4 . Unused resources carried over from the
    4.2. Redevelopment (Article 56)                         25      financial year 1977                       token entry
5. Aid to coking coal and metallurgical
    coke                                          6             5. Special contribution under the Council
                                                                    Decision of 21 December 1977                     32
                                               152                                                                  152
Operations financed with loans from                             Origin of non-borrowed funds
non-borrowed funds
                                                                6. Repayments on loans for social housing           7-5
6. Social housing                              15
                                                                7. Special reserve       and  former   ECSC
                                                                    pension fund                                    7-5