CELEX: 31994S2186
Language: en
Date: 1994-09-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision No 2186/94/ECSC of 7 September 1994 amending Decision No 2-52 determining the mode of assessment and collection of the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the Treaty

8 . 9 . 94                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 234/7
                                     COMMISSION DECISION No 2186/94/ ECSC
                                                    of 7 September 1994
                  amending Decision No 2-52 determining the mode of assessment and collection
                           of the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the Treaty
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        Whereas those amendments would entail only a minimal
                                                                   loss of income from levies,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Articles 49
and 50 thereof,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
After consultation with the Council,
Whereas Decision No 2-52 of the High Authority ('), as                                        Article 1
last amended by Commission Decision No 3565/83/
 ECSC (2), determines the mode of assessment and collec­           Article 4 of Decision No 2-52 is hereby amended as
tion of the levies provided for in Articles 49 and 50 of the       follows :
Treaty ;
Whereas at its meeting on 24 November 1992 the                     1 . in paragraph 1 , '250' is replaced by ' 1500' and
Council requested the Commission to effect a progressive               'monthly' by 'quarterly' ;
reduction in the levy, with a view to its complete aboli­
                                                                   2. paragraph 2 is replaced by the following text :
tion no later than on expiry of the ECSC Treaty on 23
July 2002 ;                                                            '2.    With effect from the first production quarter of
                                                                       1995, payments in respect of the production for each
Whereas to maintain a simple and economical system of                  quarter shall be made on the 25th day of the second
administration pursuant to the third paragraph of Article              month following that production quarter.'
5 of the Treaty it seems desirable, in order to administer
the levy efficiently during the transition period leading to
its abolition, to change the frequency of the declarations                                    Article 2
and payments, and to raise the existing threshold for
collection of the levy ;                                           This Decision shall enter into force on 1 January 1995.
                  This Decision shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                  Done at Brussels, 7 September 1994.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                           Henning CHRISTOPHERSEN
                                                                                  Vice-President
(') OJ of the ECSC No 1 , 30. 12. 1952, p. 3.
(2) OJ No L 355, 17. 12. 1983, p. 19 .