CELEX: 51983PC0158(02)
Language: en
Date: 1983-04-13
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DECISION RELATING TO A CONTRIBUTION TO THE EUROPEAN COAL AND STEEL COMMUNITY OUT OF THE GENERAL BUDGET OF THE COMMUNITIES

4.5.83                              Official Journal of the European Communities                               No C 119/7
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               Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1040/82 on the
               supply of milk fats to certain developing countries and specialized bodies under the 1982
                                                      food-aid programme
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
 COMMUNITIES,
 Having regard to the Treaty                establishing   the                               Article 1
 European Economic Community,
                                                                    Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1040/82 is hereby
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       replaced by the following:
 1039/82 of 26 April 1982 laying down general rules
 for the supply of milk fats to certain developing
                                                                         'Article 1
 countries and specialized bodies under the 1982
 food-aid programme ('), as amended by Regulation                        The allocation and financing arrangements in
 (EEC No . . ./83, and in particular Articles 3 and 8                    respect of a quantity of milk fats, corresponding
 thereof,                                                                to 41 762 tonnes of butteroil, under the 1982
                                                                         food-aid programme, as provided for in Regu-
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                      lation (EEC) No 1039/82, are as set out in the
                                                                         Annex.'
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No . . ./83 has reduced
 the figure for the total volume of milk fats supplied as
 food aid for 1982 to 41 762 tonnes;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas, in consequence, the corresponding figure
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
 for total food aid in the form of milk fats in Article 1           day following its publication in the Official Journal of
 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1040/82 (2) should                  the European Communities.
 also be altered,
 (') O J N o L 120, 1. 5. 1982, p. 5.                               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
 (2) O J N o L 120, 1. 5. 1982, p. 7.                               directly applicable in all Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Decision relating to a contribution to the European Coal and
                               Steel Community out of the general budget of the Communities
                                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 18 April 1983)
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       the general objectives for steel within the meaning of
  COMMUNITIES,                                                      Article 46 of the ECSC Treaty;
                                                                    Whereas this series of restructuring measures calls, of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                       necessity, for social support measures to alleviate the
 European Economic Community, and in particular                     negative effects of the restructuring on the workforce
 Article 235 thereof,                                               of the industry concerned;
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 Whereas the programmes which the Commission
                                                                     agreed to support within the framework of the '1981
 Having regard to the opinion of the European                        social volet', using the range of readaptation aids
 Parliament,                                                         provided for by Article 56 (2) (b) of the ECSC
                                                                    Treaty, expired in all but one Member State at the
 Whereas the difficulties currently facing the                       end of 1982;
 Community's iron and steel industry have made it
  necessary to adopt a restructuring programme under                Whereas it is essential to continue and supplement
  the ECSC Treaty;                                                   these extraordinary measures in the period 1983 to
                                                                     1986, in view of the considerable additional job losses
 Whereas this programme consists of a series of                      estimated for that period as well as the new char-
  measures to rationalize production and raise the level             acteristics of the age structure of the steel industry
  of productivity of the industry to the level where it              workforce and the worsening of unemployment in the
  can compete on the world market, in accordance with                affected areas;
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Whereas, under present circumstances, the financial        HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
means provided for by the ECSC Treaty do not
provide adequate cover for financing these measures;                              Article 1
                                                           Contributions may be granted to the European Coal
                                                           and Steel Community out of the general budget of
Whereas, in particular, the secondary effects of the       the Communities for the purpose of providing
situation, if not remedied, would be liable to             Community financing         for  special    Temporary
aggravate considerably the Community's general             allowances for the benefit of workers in iron and steel
employment situation and to impair the harmonious          undertakings in the Community whose jobs are
development of economic activities, and this would         directly or indirectly abolished or threatened as
undermine the achievement of one of the                    a result of a restructuring plan adopted by the
Community's main objectives;                               undertaking, group of undertakings or the public
                                                           authorities in accordance with the general objectives
                                                           for steel.
Whereas the Commission has submitted a request for                                Article 2
an exceptional temporary contribution, estimated at
330 million ECU, from the general budget of the            The amount of the contributions referred to in Article
Communites to allow the Commission to implement            1 shall be determined within the framework of the
successfully the proposed social measures,                 budgetary procedure.