CELEX: 31975S3378
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Decision No 3378/75/ECSC of the Commission of 22 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 methods for applying levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty

No L 333 /48                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                30 . 12. 75
                             DECISION No 3378 / 75 / ECSC OF THE COMMISSION
                                                of 22 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 methods for applying
                         levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                Whereas, moreover, technical developments have
COMMUNITIES,                                                  allowed significant reductions to be made in the
                                                              consumption of coal in steel making and in the quan­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         tities of crude steel needed to produce finished steel
Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles          products ;
49 , 50 and 78 thereof ;
                                                              Whereas, in consequence, it is appropriate to bring up
Having regard to the Treaty of 8 April 1965 esta­             to date the table of consumption figures in Article 3
blishing a single Council and a single Commission of          of Decision No 3/52/ECSC ;
the European Communities, and in particular Articles
20 and 21 thereof ;                                           Whereas the estimated yield of the levies at a rate of
                                                              0.10 % is 31.03 million units of account ;
Having regard to Decision No 2691 /72/ ECSC of 18
December 1972 amending Decision No 2/52/ECSC                  Having noted the Opinion delivered on 18 December
of 23 December 1952 determining the mode of assess­            1975 by the European Parliament,
ment and collection of the levies provided for in Arti­
cles 49 and" 50 of the ECSC Treaty ;
Having regard to Decision No 3329 /74/ ECSC of 20             HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
December 1974 fixing the rate of the levies for 1975
and amending Decision No 3 / 52/ ECSC of 23
December 1952 on the amount of and methods for                                             Article 1
applying the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50
of the ECSC Treaty ;                                          The rate of the levies on output from 1 January 1976
                                                              shall be 0-29 % of the figures used as the basis of
 Having regard to Commission Decision No 1761 /75/            assessment for such levies .
 ECSC of 2 July 1975 amending Decision No 2/ 52/
 ECSC of 23 December 1 952 determining the mode of
assessment and collection of the levies provided for in                                    Article 2
Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty ;
                                                              Article 2 of Decision No 3/52/ ECSC, as amended by
 Having regard to Commission Decision No 3289/75/             Article    2   of    Decision    No   3329/74/ ECSC     of   20
 ECSC of 18 December 1975 on the definition and                December 1974 and by Article 1 of Decision No
 conversion of the unit of account to be used in deci­         1761 /75/ ECSC of 2 July 1975, is now amended to
sions, recommendations, opinions and communiqués               read as follows :
 for the purposes of the Treaty establishing the ECSC ;
                                                              The average value in units of account of the products
Whereas, in view of the variations in average values           on which the levies are assessed shall from 1 January
 recorded during the reference period , Decision No            1 976 be as follows :
 3 / 52 / ECSC of 23 December 1952 on the amount of
 and methods for applying the levies provided for in                                 Product                   Average value
 Articles 49 and 50 of the ECSC Treaty should be
 amended ;
                                                               Brown    coal    briquettes   and  semi-coke
                                                               derived from brown coal                              18-57
 Whereas the requirements of the European Coal and
                                                               Hard coal of all categories                          30-35
 Steel Community are estimated in the operating
 budget for' the 1976 financial year at 106 million units      Pig iron other than that used for making
                                                               ingots                                              138-4
 of account ; whereas that budget, which was adopted
 by the Commission of the European Communities on              Steel in ingots                                    1 57-52
 22 December 1975 in the form shown in the Annex
                                                               Finished products and end products of
 to th is Decision , indicates the amount of income to         iron and steel as described in Annex I to
 be provided from levies in the course of the financial        the Treaty                                        262-54
 year 1975, namely 90 million units of account ;
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                         Article 3                             The scale provided for in Article 2 (4) of Decision No
Article 3 of Decision No 3 / 52/ ECSC of 23 December
                                                               2/ 52/ ECSC of 23 December 1952 shall accordingly be
                                                               as follows, the figures being given in units of account :
1952, as last amended by Article 3 of Decision No
3329/ 74/ ECSC       of 20   December     1974,      is   now
amended as follows :                                                                                                 Assessment    January   1976
                                                                                     Product                                      and
                                                                                                                        subsequent months and
The consumption figures to be used in calculating the                                                                  collection February 1976
deductions provided for in Article 2 (2) of Decision                                                                    and subsequent months
No 2/ 52/ ECSC of 23 December 1952 shall be as
follows :
                                                               Brown coal briquettes and semi-
                                                               coke derived from brown coal (')                                005385
                Product               Consumption figures      Hard coal of all categories (2)                                 008802
                                                               Pig iron other than that used for
Brown coal briquettes and semi-                                making ingots                                                   0-33324
coke derived from brown coal          0 03 metric tons of
                                                               Steel in ingots                                                 0-41720
                                            brown coal
                                            briquettes and     Finished          products         and       end
                                            semi-coke          products of iron and steel as
                                            derived from       described in Annex I to the Treaty                              0-18487
                                            brown coal
Hard coal of all categories           0-14 metric tons of     (') For purposes of the deductions provided for in the preceding Article, the levy
                                            hard coal               fixed above shall be applied to the net metric tonnage of brown coal and
                                                                    semi-coke of brown coal, less 3 % .
Pig iron other than that used for
                                                               (2 ) For purposes of the deductions provided for in the preceding Article, the levy
making ingots                         0-774 metric tons of
                                                                    fixed above shall be applied to the net metric tonnage of hard coal as defined
                                             hard coal              in Article 1 of Decision No 2/ 52/ ECSC, less 14 % .
Steel in ingots                       0-450 metric tons of
                                             hard coal
Finished     products    and    end                            The amount of the levies per metric ton to be paid in
products of iron and steel as                                  the currencies of the Member States of the Commu­
described in Annex I to the Treaty    1-262 metric tons of
                                                               nity shall be established in compliance with Article 3
                                             steel
                                                               of Decision No 3289 /75/ ECSC .
                          Article 4
Article 4 of Decision No 3 / 52/ ECSC of 23 December                                               Article 5
1952, as last amended by Article 4 of Decision No
3329 /74/ ECSC       of 20    December     1974,     is   now
amended to read as follows :                                   This Decision shall enter force on 1 January 1976.
               This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 22 December 1975 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                             Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
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                                                                        ANNEX
                                                  ECSC OPERATIONAL BUDGET FOR 1976
                                                                                                                                    (in million u.a .)
                  Requirements
                                                        Applications j       Proposals                           Resources              Proposals
Operations to be financed from ordinary                                                         Ordinary resources
resources (non-recoverable)
1 . Administrative expenditure                         18                  18                    1 . Levy yield at 0-29 °/o (*)              90
2. Aid to resettlement and retraining                  25                  25                   2 . Interest on investments and on
     (Article 56)                                                                                     loans from non-borrowed funds          14
3. Aid to research (Article 55 )                       65                  42                   3 . Miscellaneous                     token entry
     (a) Steel                                               ) 25                ) 16
     (b) Coal                                                >    30             >   17
     (c) Social                                              ) 10                ;     9
4. Aid to coking coal (Article 95)                       6                   6                  4 . Cancellation of commitments
                                                                                                       which will not now be used              2
5 . Interest subsidies                                 23                  15                   5 . Unused resources carried over
                                                                                                       from the financial year 1975    token entry
     (a) Article 54 — Investment
     (b) Article 56 — Reconversion                                               ! :
                                                      137                 106                                                               1,06
Operations financed with loans from non-                                                         Origin of non-borrowed funds
borrowed funds
6. Subsidized housing                                   12-5               12-5
                                                                                                 6. Repayments on loans for sub­
                                                                                                       sidized housing                         6-4
                                                                                                 7. Special reserve and part of the
                                                                                                       former ECSC pension fund                6-1
 (1) Any surplus over a levy yield of 90 million units of account will be allocated to the reserves .