CELEX: 51979PC0753
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Date: 1979-12-12
Title: DRAFT COMMISSION DECISION AMENDING DECISION 73/287/ECSC CONCERNING COKING COAL AND COKE FOR THE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY IN THE COMMUNITY (presented by the Commission to the Council)

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 ---pagebreak---    COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                   COM ( 79 ) 753 final
                                                   Brussels , 12th December 1979
                            DRAFT COMMISSION DECISION
                    AMENDING DECISION 73 / 287 / ECSC CONCERNING
                      COKING COAL AND COKE FOR THE IRON AND
                         STEEL INDUSTRY IN THE COMMUNITY
                 (presented by the Commission to the Council)^.
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C0M(79 ) 753 final
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   • amending Decision 73/287/ECSC concerning coking coal and coke for the
 . - iron and steel industry in the Community .                -
                                    Article 1
     Decision 73/ 287/ ECSC is hereby amended as follows :
1 . Article 1(a ) shall read as follows :             »                           \
     "a production aid, for which the governments shall each year determine
      a rate per coalfield ,, while taking particular account of the average costs
      of production in that coalfield , the price of coking coal referred to in
      article 5 » delivered in its principal sales ?urea and the long-term supply ~
      conditions ;"
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2 . Article 1 ("b ) shall read as . follows :
     "a sales aid applying to deliveries to areas remote from the coalfield or
      effected "by way of intra-Community trade . The rate of any such aid may
      not exceed 4*40 EUA per tonne of coking coal in the case of deliveries
      to installations which can be . supplied direct via maritime transport ¬
      er where in the case of intra^-Community trade , supply via maritime trans­
                                *
      port is necessary and 2.60 EUA per tonne of coal , in all other cases . No
      scale adopted "by a government shall introduce any element of discrimination
      into the aids relating to the deliveries made "by the coal undertakings ."
3 . Article 2(2 ) shall read "1           November" instead of "30 September".
        '            • * '  "                           ;'       -             . " ,'
4 * Article 5(0 shall read as follows :
     "The delivered prices of coking coal from non-member countries referred to
      in articles 1a ) and 3(2 ) shall be calculated from* the prices cif Coronur.i ty .
      ports for comparable, transactions . For this purpose the Commission fixos
      guide cif prices ."
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5.    The last sentence of article 5 ( 2 ) shall "be deleted .
6 . . Article 5(3 ) shall "be deleted .                   ..     '
7 . - Article 7 (0 shall read ~s.s follows :
      " The Community financing arrangements shall cover an annual - quantity of
        coking coal amounting to no more than 15 million tonnes and an amount of
        47 million EUA per year ."                            \.        -
8 .- Article 7(2 ) shall read as follovis :
      " The special fund shall "be financed annually as follows :            .   ■
        ( a.)  The contribution of the European Coal and Steel Community shall be
               6 million EUA ;                                      '
        (b)     The overall contribution of the Member States shall amount to no
               more than 24 million EUA on the following scale ( in MEUA ):
               Germany        7*75
             • Belgium        3.25 ,
               France         7 . 00
    .           Italy         3.00                                                         *
               Luxembourg     1 . 50
                Netherlands'  1.50                                                   -
        (c)      The overall contribution of the iron and steel industries not reforrcd
                 in the second indent of article 6 shall be 17 million EUA ; this amount ,
                 shall be apportioned among the iron and steel undertakings on the basi :
                 of their consumption of blast-furnace coke .             .-
               -                           .               "          .        '   '
                 The contribution of the iron and steel industries referred to in "the
                 second indent of article 6 is calculated , on the basis of the rate per
 v               tonne of consumption applicable to the other undertakings ."
 9.    Article 7(3 ) shall be deleted .                  /
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10. To article 8(2 ) shall be added the following sentence :
      "If the tonnages concerned do not attain the limit fixed in article 7(0
       the reimbursements shall be assured by having priority recourse to the SCSC
        contribution and. the contribution of the iron and steel industry * The
        contribution of the Member States shall be reduced accordingly so as to
        cover the balance of the requirements of the special fund ."
11 .  Article 8(3 ) shall read as follows :
      "The Commission shall fix the contributions to be paid into the special fund .
12 .  Article 9(0 shall read as follows :
      " The Commission shall take into account the aids provided for in this
       Decision in assessing whether the aids referred to in Articles 6 to 12
        of decision No . 528/76/ECSC of 22 December 197^ axe liable to interfere
       with the proper functioning of the Common Market ."
13 . Article 10(1 ) shall read as follows :
      "In an emergency, the Commission may , by decisions taken after consultation
       with the Consultative Committee and the European Parliament and after tiie
       unanimous assent of the Council has been given , amend :
       – the rate of the sales aids ,
        – the ceiling to intra-Community trade , -
       – the rules governing the financing of the special fund ,
      – the scale referred to in Article 7 » paragraph 2(b ).
        These amend-ments shall take account of the long-term trend of supply
        conditions and the supply pattern within the Community."
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14 . Article 10(3 ) last sentence , shall read a£ follows :
        " it msiy, in respect of the undertakings in question, suspend or limit
     y the benefits deriving from the application of Article 1# "
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This decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication " in
               4*
the Official Journal of the European Communities and. shall take effect fro
1 January 1980 .  It shall cease to have effect on 31 December 1981 .
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Budget CECA : 6 MUCE ( 1980 + 1981 )
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