CELEX: 31974D0069
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 23 November 1973 granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the Treaty, to the French Republic for expenditure on resettlement operations carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture

23 . 2. 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 52/9
                                                  COMMISSION DECISION
                                                     of 23 November 1973
               granting assistance from the European Social Fund, as provided for in Article 125 of the
              Treaty, to the French Republic for expenditure on resettlement operations carried out
                                                by the Ministry of Agriculture
                                                 (ESF files Nos 71.127, 72.032)
                                               (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                           (74/69/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      July 1969 to 30 June 1970 inclusive, were properly
COMMUNITIES,                                                        submitted within the time limit laid down in Article
                                                                    19 of Regulation No 9 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community ;                                       Whereas the examination of those applications and
                                                                    the checking of their material and financial aspects,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC)                  No       carried out pursuant to the provision of Commission
2396/71 (*) of 8 November 1971 implementing                the      Regulation No 113/63/EEC (5) on the detailed rules
CounciJ Decision of 1 February 1971 (2) on                 the      for the examination and checking of applications for
reform of the European Social Fund, and                      in     assistance submitted to the European Social Fund,
particular Article 12 thereof;                                      revealed that these applications comply with the
                                                                    conditions laid down in the relevant rules, except as
Whereas in its applications of 28 December 1971                     regards the following points :
and 15 June 1972 the French Republic requested
assistance from the European Social Fund, as                        (a) As a result of an arithmetical error certain sums
provided for in Article 125 of the Treaty, for                          were wrongly included in or omitted from the
expenditure on resettlement operations amounting to                     total expenditure; the correction involves the sum
a total of FF 233 374*00 ;                                              of FF 9 660*28, which is to be deducted from the
                                                                        amount for which the applications were
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12 of Regulation (EEC )                    submitted ;
No 2396/71 , such assistance is granted for
operations initiated before 1 May 1972, the date on                 (b) It has also been found that some employees were
which that Regulation entered into force, and                           re-employed after their training period by the
terminated before 1 July 1972, and whereas the                          national police force where they took part in the
applications for assistance submitted must be                           exercise of official authority within the meaning
examined pursuant to the provisions of Council                          of Article 1 of Regulation No 9 ; these cases are
Regulation No 9 (3 ) of 25 August 1960, as last                         therefore excluded from receiving assistance from
amended by Council Regulation No 37/67/EEC (4),                         the Fund;
and to the provisions adopted pursuant to that
Regulation ;                                                        Whereas     the   number     of   such   cases   in  the
                                                                    applications, the percentage of which (2*94) was
Whereas, in accordance with Articles 1 and 6 of                     calculated on the basis of the results of the survey
Regulation No 9, the applications referred to above                 carried out pursuant to the provisions of
from the French Republic relate to resettlement                     Commission Regulation No 113/63/EEC referred to
operations carried out on the responsibility and at                 above, involves the sum of FF 1 888*59, which must
the expense of the Ministry of Agriculture (Centre                  therefore be deducted from the amount requested
National pour l'amenagement des Structures des                      and corrected in the way stated above ;
Exploitations Agricoles (CNASEA);
                                                                    Whereas, consequently, the Ministry of Agriculture
                                                                    is entitled to receive assistance from the Fund for its
Whereas the applications containing the information
required under Article 21 of Regulation No 9 and                    expenditure provided that the sum of FF 11 548*87 is
relating to operations terminated during the period 1               deducted, and whereas the amount of assistance to
                                                                    be granted by the Fund pursuant to Article 125 of
                                                                    the Treaty is therefore FF 233 374*00 — FF 11 548*87
(^   OJ  No L 249, 10. 11. 1971 , p. 54.                            (FF 9 660*28 + FF 1 888*59 ), i.e. FF 221 825*13 ;
(2 ) OJ  No L 28, 4. 2. 1971 , p. 15 .
(3)  OJ  No 56, 31. 8 . 1960, p. 1189/60.
(4)  OJ  No 33, 24. 2. 1967, p. 526167.                             (5) OJ No 153, 24. 10. 1963, p. 2563/63.
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Whereas in its Opinion of 3 May 1973 the                                           Article 2
Committee of the European Social Fund reached the
same conclusions for reasons given above,                  The amount of assistance from the European Social
                                                           Fund to be granted pursuant to Article 125 of the
                                                           Treaty to the French Republic shall be FF 221 825'13
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                 (equivalent to 39 938*34 u.a.).
                       Article 1
                                                                                   Article 3
The applications for assistance submitted to the
European Social Fund by the French Republic for
expenditure by the Ministry of Agriculture on              This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.
resettlement operations carried out during the period
1 July 1969 to 30 June 1970 inclusive, comply with         Done at Brussels, 23 November 1973 .
the rules governing the operation of the Fund as far                                 For the Commission
as the sum of FF 221 825*13 is concerned . The
                                                                                         The President
remainder of the expenditure contained in the
applications does not comply with those rules.                                     François-Xavier ORTOLI