CELEX: 31974D0177
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-21 00:00:00
Title: 74/177/EEC: Commission Decision of 21 December 1973 granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the Treaty, to the French Republic for expenditure on vocational retraining and resettlement operations carried out by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Population, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of War Victims

No L 94/6                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               4. 4. 74
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 21 December 1973
             granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125
              of the Treaty, to the French Republic for expenditure on vocational retraining and
              resettlement operations carried out by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and
                        Population, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of War Victims
              (ESF file Nos 72062, 72083 , 72093 , 72095, 72105, 72106, 73017, 73035 , 73054,
                                                              73055)
                                                (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                          (74/ 177/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      and to resettlement operations carried out on the
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                       responsibility and at the expense of the Ministry of
                                                                     Labour, Employment and Population ( requested
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   amount FF 1 529 258-62) and the Ministry of Agri­
pean Economic Community, and in particular                           culture ( requested amount FF 458 329 ) ;
Article 125 thereof ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas the applications containing the informa­
2396/71 0 ) of 8 November 1971 implementing the                      tion required under Articles 20 and 21 of Regula­
Council Decision of 1 February 1971 on the reform                    tion No 9 and relating to operations terminated or
of the European Social Fund, and in particular                       carried out during the period 1 January 1970 to 30
Article 12 thereof ;                                                 June 1972 inclusive, were properly submitted within
                                                                     the time limits laid down in Article 19 of Regula­
Whereas in its applications of 13 July, 7 December,                  tion No 9 ;
21 December and 29 December 1972, 12 June, 22
June and 29 June 1973 the French Republic                            Whereas the examination of those applications and
 requested assistance from the European Social Fund,                 the checking of their material and financial aspects,
as provided for in Article 125 of the Treaty, for                    carried out pursuant to the provision of Commis­
expenditure on vocational retraining operations                      sion Regulation No 113 /63 /EEC (4) on the detailed
amounting to a total of FF 41 060 835-97 and for                     rules for the examination and checking of applica­
resettlement operations amounting to a total of FF                   tions for assistance submitted to the European
1 987 587-62 ;                                                       Social Fund, revealed that these applications comply
                                                                     with the conditions laid down in the relevant rules,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 of Regulation                        except, however, that in the applications relating to
 (EEC) No 2396/71 , such assistance is granted for                   the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Popula­
operations initiated before 1 May 1972, the date on                  tion (resettlement operations), as a result of an arith­
which that Regulation entered into force, and termi­                 metical error, certain sums were wrongly omitted
nated before 1 July 1972, and whereas the applica­                   from the total expenditure ; the correction involves
tions for assistance submitted must be examined                      the sum of FF 8 457-58 , which is to be added to the
pursuant to the provisions of Council Regulation                     amount for which the applications were submitted ;
No 9 (2) of 25 August 1960, as last amended by
Council Regulation No 37/67/EEC (3), and to the
provisions adopted pursuant to that Regulation ;                     Whereas, consequently, the abovementioned Minis­
                                                                     tries are entitled to receive assistance from the Fund
Whereas, in accordance with Articles 1 , 3 and 6 of                  for their expenditure, and whereas the amount of
Regulation No 9, the applications referred to above                  assistance to be granted by the Fund pursuant to
from the French Republic relate to vocational                        Article 125 of the Treaty is therefore FF1
retraining operations carried out on the responsi­                   43 048 423-59 ( FF 41060 835-97 plus FF 1987587-62 )
bility and at the expense of the Ministry of Labour,                 plus FF 8 457-58 , i.e. FF 43 056 881-17 ;
Employment and Population (requested amount FF
27 369 837-07), the Ministry of Agriculture
(requested amount FF 11964 740) and the Ministry                     Whereas in its Opinion of 25 October 1973 the
                                                                     Committee of the European Social Fund reached the
of War Victims ( requested amount FF 1 726 258-90)
                                                                    same conclusions for reasons given above,
(*) OJ No L 249, 10. 11 . 1971 , p . 54.
(*) OJ No 56, 31 . 8 . 1960, p . 1189/60 .
(•) OJ No 33, 24. 2. 1967, p. 526/67.                                («) OJ No 153 , 24. 10. 1963 , p . 2563/63 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                   January 1970 to 30 June 1972 inclusive, comply
                                                              with the rules governing the operation of the Fund
                                                              as far as the sum of FF 43 056 881-17 is concerned .
                        Article 1
                                                                                       Article 2
The applications for assistance submitted to the              The amount of assistance from the European Social
European Social Fund by the French Republic for               Fund to be granted pursuant to Article 125 of the
expenditure by the Ministries referred to in Article          Treaty to the French Republic shall be FF
2 on vocational retraining and resettlement opera­            43 056 881-17 (7 752 144-08 units of account). This
tions terminated and carried out during the period 1          sum shall be allocated as follows :
            Beneficiary                                                   Assistance granted
                                                          vocational retraining             resettlement
            Ministry of Labour, Employment and
            Population                                       FF 27 369 837-07             FF 1 537 716-20
                                                            (4 927 781-92 u.a)           (276 856-97 u.a.)
            Ministry of Agriculture                          FF 11 964 740                       FF 458 329
                                                           (2 154 182-70 u.a .)            ( 82 519-50 u.a.)
            Ministry of War Victims                           FF 1 726 258-90
                                                                 (310 803 u.a.)
                                                     Article 3
            This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
            Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                           The President
                                                                      Francois-Xavier ORTOLI