CELEX: 31974D0070
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 Republic of Italy for expenditure on vocational retraining operations carried out by the Ministry of Labour and National Insurance and several other Italian bodies

23 . 2 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 52/ 11
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 23 November 1973
              granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the
              Treaty, to the Republic of Italy for expenditure on vocational retraining operations
              carried out by the Ministry of Labour and National Insurance and several other Italian
                                                               bodies
              (ESF files Nos 71.021 , 71.022, 71.074, 71.075, 71.080, 71.086, 71.096, 72.014, 72.017,
              72.022, 72.025 , 72.026, 72.028 , 72.036, 72.045, 72.069, 72.070, 72.076, 72.077, 72.078 ,
                                            72.079, 72.088, 72.092, 72.099, 72.043 )
                                                 (Only the Italian text is authentic)
                                                           (74/70/EEC )
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        retraining operations amounting to a total of Lit
COMMUNITIES,                                                          4 727 911796 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                          Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 of Regulation (EEC)
European Economic Community ;                                         No 2396/71 , such assistance is granted for
                                                                      operations initiated before 1 May 1972, the date on
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                  No         which that Regulation entered into force, and
2396/71 (*) of 8 November 1971 implementing                the        terminated before 1 July 1972, and whereas the
Council Decision of 1 February 1971 (2) on                 the        applications for assistance submitted must be
reform of the European Social Fund, and                      in       examined pursuant to the provisions of Council
particular Article 12 thereof;                                        Regulation No 9 (3) of 25 August 1960, as last
                                                                      amended by Council Regulation No 37/67/EEC (4),
Whereas in its applications of 21 May, 30 October,                    and to the provisions adopted pursuant to that
4 December and 17 December 1971 , 20 May, 29                          Regulation ;
May, 6 June, 7 June, 25 June, 26 June, 16                             Whereas, in accordance with Articles 1 and 3 of
November, 17 November, 29 November, 9                                 Regulation No 9, the applications referred to above
December, 11 December and 21 December 1972, the                       from the Republic of Italy relate to vocational
Republic of Italy requested assistance from the                       retraining operations carried             out on the
European Social Fund, as provided for in Article                      responsibility and at the expense of the bodies listed
125 of the Treaty, for expenditure on vocational                      below :
              Authority or body                                                                   Amount requested
                                                                                                          Lit
              1.  Ministero del Lavoro e della Previdenza Sociale                                     3 431 186 099
              2.  Regione siciliana                                                                       2 103 959
              3.  Cassa per le opere straordinarie di pubblico interesse nell'Italia
                  Méridionale ( Cassa per il Mezzogiorno)                                               484 006 125
              4.  Consorzio di gestione del Centro Addestramento Professionale
                  ( CAP) di Ravenna                                                                         473 072
              5.  Ente Minerario Siciliano                                                               28 465 412
              6.  Ente Nationale Idrocarburi (ENI)                                                      587 036 718
              7.  Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS)                                    194 640 411
Whereas, apart from the state department referred to                  Whereas the applications containing the information
in the above list under No 1 , the body contained in                  required under Article 20 of Regulation No 9 and
that list under No 2 is a decentralized regional                      relating to operations terminated during the period
authority within the meaning of Article 18 of                         1 January 1969 to 30 June 1971 inclusive, were
Regulation No 9, and whereas the bodies mentioned                     properly submitted within the time limit laid down
under Nos 3 to 7 are all contained in the list of                     in Article 19 of Regulation No 9 ;
public law bodies referred to in the Article
mentioned above or are administered by those                          Whereas the examination of those applications and
bodies ;                                                              the checking of their material and financial aspects,
I 1 ) OJ No L 249, 10. 11 . 1971 , p . 54.                             (3) OJ No 56, 31 . 8. 1960, p. 1189/60.
(2) OJ No L 28 , 4 . 2. 1971 , p. 15 .                                 (4) OJ No 33, 24. 2. 1967, p. 526/67.
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carried out pursuant to the provisions of                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Commission Regulation No 113/63/EEC ( x ) on the
detailed rules for the examination and checking of
applications for assistance submitted to the                                         Article 1
European Social Fund, revealed that these
applications comply with the conditions laid down
in the relevant rules, except, however, that in the           The applications for assistance submitted to the
part of the applications relating to the Cassa per il         European Social Fund by the Republic of Italy for
Mezzogiorno, certain sums have been wrongly                   expenditure by the authority and the bodies referred
included in the total expenditure as a result of an           to in Article 2 on vocational retraining operations
arithmetical error; whereas the correction involves           terminated during the period 1 January 1969 to 30
the sum of Lit 351549 , which is to be deducted               June 1971 inclusive, comply with the rules
from the amount for which the application was                 governing the operation of the Fund as regards the
                                                              sum of Lit 4 727 560 247 . The remainder of the
submitted for the body concerned ;
                                                              expenditure contained in the applications does not
                                                              comply with those rules.
Whereas, consequently, the authority and the bodies
referred to above are entitled to receive assistance
from the Fund for their expenditure provided that
the sum of Lit 351 549 is deducted, and whereas the                                  Article 2
amount of assistance to be granted by the Fund
pursuant to Article 125 of the Treaty is therefore Lit
4 727 911 796 — 351 549, i.e. Lit 4 727 560 247;              The amount of assistance from the European Social
                                                              Fund to be granted, pursuant to Article 125 of the
                                                              Treaty to the Republic of Italy for the authority and
Whereas in its Opinion of 3 May 1973 the                      the bodies listed below shall be Lit 4 727 560 247
Committee of the European Social Fund reached the             (equivalent to 7 564 096*40 u.a.). This sum shall be
same conclusions for the reasons given above,                 allocated as follows :
             Authority or body                                                        Assistance granted
                                                                                               Lit
             1. Ministero del Lavoro e della Previdenza Sociale                           3 431 186 099
             2. Regione siciliana                                                              2 103 959
             3. Cassa per le opere straordinarie di pubblico interesse nell'Italia
                Meridionale ( Cassa per il Mezzogiorno)                                     483 654 576
             4. Consorzio di gestione del Centro Addestramento Professionale
                ( CAP) di Ravenna                                                                473 072
             5. Ente Minerario Siciliano                                                     28 465 412
             6. Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI)                                            587 036718
             7. Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS )                         194 640 411
                                                      Article 3
             This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Italy.
             Done at Brussels, 23 November 1973 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                              The President
                                                                        François-Xavier ORTOLI
(!) OJ No 153, 24. 10. 1963, p. 2563/63 .