CELEX: 31976S3115
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision No 3115/76/ECSC of 20 December 1976 fixing the rate of the levies for the 1977 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

No L 352/8                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           22. 12. 76
                                   COMMISSION DECISION No 3115/76/ECSC
                                                 of 20 December 1976
             fixing the rate of the levies for the 1977 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 SO of the ECSC Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Having noted the opinion delivered on 14 December
COMMUNITIES,                                                   1976 by the European Parliament,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles
49, 50 and 78 thereof,                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Having regard to the Treaty of 8 April 1965 estab­
lishing a single Council and a single Commission of                                        Article 1
the European Communities ('), and in particular Arti­
cles 20 and 21 thereof,
                                                              The rate of the levies on output from 1 January 1977
                                                               shall be 0-29 % of the figures used as the basis of
Having regard to Decision No 3378/75/ECSC of 22                assessment for such levies.
December 1975 fixing the rate of the levies for the
1976 financial year and amending Decision No 3/52/
ECSC of 23 December 1952 on the amount of and
                                                                                           Article 2
methods for applying the levies provided for in Arti­
cles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty (2),
                                                               Article 2 of Decision No 3/52/ECSC, as amended by
                                                               Article 2 of Decision No 3378/75/ECSC, is hereby
Having regard to Decision No 2239/76/ECSC of 15                amended to read as follows :
September 1976 amending 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 1977 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
the methods for applying the levies provided for in            Brown    coal   briquettes and semi-coke
Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty should be                derived from brown coal                        20-97
amended ;                                                      Hard coal of all categories                    35-24
                                                               Pig iron other than that used for making
                                                               ingots                                       148-06
Whereas the requirements of the European Coal and              Steel in ingots                              148-35
Steel Community are estimated in the operational
                                                               Finished products and end products of
budget for the 1977 financial year at 1 1 1 million Euro­      iron and steel as described in Annex I to
pean units of account ; whereas that budget, which             the Treaty                                   247-25
was adopted by the Commission of the European
Communities on 20 December 1976, 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 1977, namely 89 million                                       Article 3
 European units of account ;
                                                               Article 4 of Decision No 3/52/ECSC, as last amended
Whereas the estimated yield of the levies at a rate of         by Article 4 of Decision No 3378/75/ECSC, is hereby
                                                               amended to read as follows :
0-10% is 30-69 million European units of account ;
(>) OJ No 152, 13 . 7. 1967, p. 2.
                                                               The scale provided for in Article 2 (4) of Decision No
(2) OJ No L 333, 30. 12. 1975, p . 48 .                        2/52/ECSC shall accordingly be as follows, the figures
(J) OJ No L 252, 16. 9 . 1976, p . 12.                         being given in European units of account :
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                                                                                                                    Assessment January 1977
                                                       Product                                                       and subsequent months
                                                                                                                  and collection February 1977
                                                                                                                     and subsequent months
           Brown coal briquettes and semi-coke derived from brown coal (')                                                  0.06081
           Hard coal of all categories (2)                                                                                  0.10220
           Pig iron other than that used for making ingots                                                                  0.35027
           Steel in ingots                                                                                                  0.38423
           Finished products and end products of iron and steel as described in
           Annex I to the Treaty                                                                                            0.17409
           (') 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 of 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 metric ton 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 1977.
           This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 20 December 1976.
                                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                                     Claude CHEYSSON
                                                                                            Member of the Commission
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                                                              ANNEX
                                       ECSC OPERATIONAL BUDGET FOR 1977
                                                                                                              (in million EUA)
                    Requirements                   Estimates                           Resources                 Estimates
 Operations to be financed from the                              Resources of the financial year
 resources of the financial year (non-re­
                                                                 1 . Current resources
 coverable)
                                                18                     1.1 . Levy yield at 0-29 %                    89
 1 . Administrative expenditure
                                                                      1.2. Interest on investments and on
 2. Aid to resettlement (Article 56)            25                           loans from non-borrowed funds           16
 3 . Aid to research (Article 55)               42                    1.3. Fines and late payment surcharges token entry
                                                                      1.4 . Miscellaneous                    token entry
     3.1 . Steel                                         16.5
     3.2. Coal                                           16.5    2. Cancellation of commitments unlikely
                                                           9          to be used                                      6
     3.3 . Social
 4 . Interest subsidies                         15               3 . Reassessment of assets and liabilities  token entry
     4.1 . Investment (Article 54)                         6     4. Unused resources carried over from the
     4.2. Redevelopment (Article 56)                       9          financial year 1976                    token entry
 5. Aid to coking coal and metallurgical
     coke                                        6
 6. Aid to victims in Friuli (allocation to
     reserves)                                   5
                                               111                                                                111
 Operations financed with loans from                              Origin of non-borrowed funds
 non - borrowed funds
                                                                  5. Repayments on loans for social housing           7
 7. Social housing                              15
                                                                  6 . Special reserve       and  former ECSC
                                                                       pension fund                                   8