CELEX: 31976D0325
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-12 00:00:00
Title: 76/325/ECSC: Commission Decision of 12 March 1976 extending the authorization of the selling of fuels from houillères du bassin de Lorraine and saarbergwerke by Saarlor

No L 78 / 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             25. 3 . 76
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                                                       COMMISSION
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 12 March 1976
                 extending the authorization of the joint selling of fuels from Houillères du
                                   bassin de Lorraine and Saarbergwerke AG by Saarlor
                                          (Only the German and French texts are authentic)
                                                            (76/325/ECSC)
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas by Decision 44/59 of 4 November 1959 the
  COMMUNITIES,                                                        High Authority authorized, until 31 December 1961 ,
                                                                      the joint selling of fuels from Houillères du bassin de
                                                                      Lorraine and Saarbergwerke AG by the Saar-
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Lothringische Kohlenunion, deutsch-französische
                                                                      Gesellschaft auf Aktien , Union charbonnière sarro-
  Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles
  4, 15, 47 and 65 thereof,                                           lorraine, société      par    actions  franco-allemande
                                                                      (Saarlor) ;
  Having regard to Decision 44/ 59 of 4 November 1959                 Whereas the period of validity of this authorization
  authorizing the joint selling of solid fuels from Houil­            was successively extended by Decisions 14/61 , 2/66,
  leres du bassin de Lorraine and Saarbergwerke AG by                 2078/68/ ECSC, 72/ 145/ ECSC and 74/ 21 1 / ECSC until
  the Saar-Lothringische Kohlenunion, deutsch­                         December 1975 ;
  französische Gesellschaft auf Aktien, Union charbon­
  nière sarro-lorraine, société par actions franco-
  allemande, of Saarbrücken and Strasbourg ( 1),                      Whereas, in a letter dated 23 December 1975, the
                                                                       parties concerned gave notice that the joint selling
                                                                       agreement concluded between them, which was due
                                                                       to expire on 31 December of that year, had been
   Having regard to Decisions 14/61 of 20 December                     extended until 31 December 1976 and applied for a
   1961 (2), 2/66 of 2 February 1966 (3), 2078/68/ECSC of
                                                                       corresponding extension of the authorization ;
   19 December 1968 (4), 72/ 145/ECSC of 8 March
   1972 (5) and 74/21 1 /ECSC of 4 April 1974 (*)
   extending the period of validity of Decision 44/59,                 Whereas the grounds on which the Commission auth­
                                                                       orized the agreements between the parties from 23
                                                                       February 1959 to 31 December 1975 are still valid ;
   Having regard to the application of 23 December                     whereas this is the case both as regards competition
1  1975,                                                               with other Community undertakings and with coal
                                                                       from third countries and as regards the improvement
   O   OJ No   58 , 14. 11 . 1959, p. 1147/ 59 .                       of distribution by means of joint sales ; whereas in
   (2) OJ No   85, 30. 12. 1961 , p. 1639/61 .                          1975 Saarlor sold 16-5 % of the output of the Saar
   (3) OJ No   25, 8. 2. 1966, p. 400/66.                              collieries and 3-6 % of the output of the Lorraine
   (4) OJ No   L 7, 11 . 1 . 1969, p. 1 .
   (5) OJ No   L 76, 29 . 3 . 1972, p. 30 .                             field ; whereas these percentages are comparable to
   (o) OJ No   L 113, 26 . 4. 1974, p. 46 .                             those in previous years ;
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Whereas the agreement consequently continues to                                  Article 2
satisfy the conditions for authorization under Article     This Decision is addressed to the coal-mining under­
65 (2) of the Treaty,                                      takings concerned and to Saarlor.
                                                           Done at Brussels, 12 March 1976.
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                                   For the Commission
                       Article I
                                                                                     A. BORSCHETTE
The period of validity of Decision 44/59 is extended
until 31 December 1976 .                                                       Member of the Commission