CELEX: 31974D0175
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 December 1973 granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the Treaty, to the Kingdom of Belgium for expenditure on vocational retraining operations carried out by the 'Office National de l'Emploi (ONEM)'

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                                                  COMMISSION
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 21 December 1973
              granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article
               125 of the Treaty, to the Kingdom of Belgium for expenditure on vocational
                 retraining operations carried out by the 'Office National de l'Emploi (ONEM)'
                                         (ESF file Nos 72016, 72063, 72072, 72073)
                                      (Only the French and Dutch text are authentic)
                                                        (74/ 175/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas, in accordance with Articles 1 and 3 of Regu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                      lation No 9 , the applications referred to above from
                                                                  the Kingdom of Belgium relate to vocational
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            retraining operations carried out on the responsibility
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 125                and at the expense of the Office National de l'Emploi
 thereof ;
                                                                  (ONEM), a body which has been included in the list
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     of public law bodies referred to in Article 18 of Regu­
 2396/71 (') of 8 November 1971 implementing the                  lation No 9 ;
 Council Decision of 1 February 1971 on the reform of
 the European Social Fund, and in particular Article 12
 thereof ;                                                        Whereas the applications containing the information
                                                                  required under Article 20 of Regulation No 9 and
 Whereas in its applications of 19 May, 30 June, 21               relating to operations terminated during the period 1
 November and 22 December 1972 the Kingdom of                     July 1970 to 30 June 1971 inclusive, were properly
 Belgium requested assistance from the European                   submitted within the time limit laid down in Article
 Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the                19 of Regulation No 9 ;
 Treaty, for expenditure on vocational retraining opera­
 tions amounting to a total of Bfrs 79 271 701 ;
                                                                  Whereas the examination of those applications and
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 of Regulation (EEC)              the checking of their material and financial aspects,
 No 2396/71 , such assistance is granted for operations           carried out pursuant to the provisions of Commission
 initialled before 1 May 1972, the date in which that
                                                                  Regulation No 1 13/63/EEC (4) on the detailed rules
 Regulation entered into force, and terminated before 1
                                                                   for the examination and checking of applications for
 July 1972, and whereas the applications for assistance            assistance submitted to the European Social Fund,
 submitted must be examined pursuant to the provi­                 revealed that these applications comply with the
 sions of Council Regulation No 9 (2) of 25 August                 conditions laid down in the relevant rules ;
  1960, as last amended by Council Regulation No
 37/67/EEC (3), and to the provisions adopted pursuant
 to that Regulation ;
                                                                  Whereas,    consequently,      the   Office National  de
 (') OJ No L 249, 10. 11 . 1971 , p. 54.                           l'Emploi (ONEM) is entitled to receive assistance from
 (2) OJ No 56, 31 . 8 . 1960, p. 1189/60 .
 (3) OJ No 33, 24. 2. 1967, p. 526/67.                             (4) OJ No 153, 24. 10 . 1963, p. 2563/63 .
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the Fund for its expenditure and whereas the amount                                Article 2
of assistance to be granted by the Fund pursuant to
                                                            The amount of assistance from the European Social
Article 125 of the Treaty is therefore Bfrs 79 271 701 .
                                                             Fund to be granted pursuant to Article 125 of the
Whereas in its Opinion of 25 October 1973 the               Treaty to the Kingdom of Belgium for the Office
Committee of the European Social Fund reached the            National  de   l'Emploi    (ONEM)      shall be   Bfrs
same conclusions, for the reasons given above,              79 271 701   (equivalent to    1 585 434-02 units of
                                                             account).
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                        Article 3
                      Article 1                             This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of
                                                             Belgium.
The application for assistance submitted to the Euro­
pean Social Fund by the Kingdom of Belgium for
                                                             Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 .
expenditure by the Office National de l'Emploi
(ONEM) on vocational retraining operations termi­
                                                                                     For the Commission
nated during the period 1 July 1970 to 30 June 1971
inclusive, comply with the rules governing the opera­                                    The President
tion of the Fund as regards the sum of Bfrs
79 271 701 .                                                                        Francois-Xavier ORTOLI