CELEX: 51981DC0199
Language: en
Date: 1981-04-14
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 7/81 (non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
COLLECTION RELIEE DES
DOCUMENTS "COM"
COM (81) 199
Vol. 1981/0075
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GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1981      ,                COM (81 ). 199 final
SECTION III * COMMISSION .
                                              Brüssels , Hth April 1981
                       TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 7 / 81
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GENERAL BUDGET FOR 19 81
SECTION III - COMMISSION
                   TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 7/ 81
                      ( non-compulsory expenditure )
                                                                   ECU
                                              Appropriations Appropriations
                                              for commitment for payment
1.   SOURCE
     A.  1981 appropriations
/    FROM CHAPTER 33 - EXPENDITURE ON
                       • RESEARCH AND
                         INVESTMENT
   • Article 334 – Indirect action – Energy­       (
     Item 334O   – New sources of energy-          662 000
     Item 3341   - Fusion                       2 815 . 000       381 000
     Item 3344   – Management and storage
                   of radioactive waste                         1 000 000
     Article 335 – Indirect action – raw
                   materials                                  -
     Item 335O   – Secondary raw
                   materials ( recycling of
            .      urban and industrial
                   waste )                                        125 000
     Article 336 – Indirect and
                   concerted action –
                   quality of life
     Item 3361   – Climatology                  1 145 000         515 000
     Item 3364   – Analysis of organic
                                                   125 000         54 000
                   micropollutants in
                   water
     Item 3365     Physico-chemical                  53 000        29 000
                   "behaviour of
                    atmospheric pollutants
                                 Total A.       4 800 000       2 104 000
                                   • a- ·· .
 ---pagebreak---                                                                               ECU
                                                     Appropriati on s    Appropriations
                                                     for commitment       for payment
                                                                                      -
B.   Appropriations carried over from I98O
JVKOM CHAPTER 33 - EXPENDITURE UN RESEARCH
                   AND INVESTMENT
Article 334 – Indirect action - energy
It^ra 334O   – New sources of energy-                                       2 000 000
Article 336 – Indirect and concerted
               action – quality of life
Item 336I    – Climatology                                                    615 000
Item 3364    – Analysis of organic
               micropollutants in water                                        48 000
Item 3365    – Physico-chemical "behaviour
               of atmospheric pollutants                                       33 000
                      ·■                (
                                 Total B.                                   2 696 000
2.   DESTINATION                                                -
     TO CHAPTER 26 - EXPENDITURE ON STUDIES .
                     SURVEYS AND
                     CONSULTATE ONS                                   s
     Article 262 -   Comprehensive Community
                     studi ¿s and general
                     surveys                                  4 800     000
The Financial Controller approved this proposal on . 9.4.1981 .
in accordance with Article 21 ( 4 ) of the Financial Regulation and
certified that the appropriations are available .
 ---pagebreak---                               CROUNDS
1 . On 31 October the Commission issued Decision 2794/80/ECSC introducing
a scheme of production quotasto help deal with the manifest crisis in the
Community steel industry .
To help with the implementation of this Decision the Commission decided to
secure the services of up to 100 production engineers seconded from steel
firms and about 45 experts from auditing firms .
Checks have "been made at steel firms since the very beginning of November ;
nearly 300 firms representing more than $Ofo of Community output are involved .
The details are described at II .
2.   The total cost of the operation was estimated at 9 million ECU , of which
7 million would be borne by the 1981 budget .   The accuracy of the estimate
has been confirmed by actual costs in the first few months .
Expenditure on these checks , undertaken chiefly on the basis of Article 47
of the ECSC Treaty , is financed from Article 262 of the general budget
( Community studies and surveys ).
3 . At the beginning of this year the Commission earmarked 1.2 million ECU
from Article 262 for these checks . On 27 February it asked the budgetary
authority to transfer 1 million ECU from Chapter 101 ( Contingency reserve )
to Article 262 and stated that it would be asking for a farther transfer to
cover the rest of the cost .
                                                       \
4 . We still have 4*8 million ECU to finance .   The Commission has made savings
and compressed expenditure wherever possible , and it now believes that these
4.8 million ECU can be released from Chapter 33 ( itemized below ).
The funds can be obtained from research and indirect–action appropriations
where delays in the implementation of programmes mean that there are quite
substantial sums unspent :
Commitment appropriations
Item 3340           New sources of energy                  662.000 ECU
Item 334'.          Fusion         -                     2.815.000 ECU
Item 3361           Climatology                          1.145.000 ECU
Item 3364         , Analysis of micropollutants         „ 125.000 ECU
Item 3365 ,         Atmospheric pollutants                  53.000 ECU
                                       Total             4.800.000 ECU
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                                             - 2 -
          Payment aDnro-nriations
          Item 3340     New sources of energy ( allocation 21 )        2 000 000 ECU
          Item 3341     Fusion '                                         381 000 ECU
          Item 3344 .  Management and storage of radioactive
                       waste                                 ,         1 000 000 ECU
          Item  3350    Secondary raw materials                          125 000 ECU
          Item  3361 - Climatology ( allocation 10 )                     51 5 000 ECU
                             "      ( allocation 21 )                    615 000 ECU
          Item  3364   Analysis of mi cropo Ilutante                               -
                          '         ( allocation 10 )                     54 000 ECU
            V                       ( allocation 21 )                     40 000 ECU
          Item 3365    Atmospheric pollutants
                                    ( allocation 10 )                     29 000 ECU
                                    ( allocation 21 )                     33 000 ECU
                                                                       4 800 000 ECU
 II. Checks are made on all products subject to the quota scheme , and two
    ' ■ complementary techniques are applied .       First , all the relevant firms
          are required to make a daily return lpy telex of their output of steel
         products covered by Decision 2794/80/ECSC ; the daily returns are followed
         "by weekly and monthly telex returns giving total output for the relevant
         period , with corrections if necessary .
         Then , these returns are checked on the spot by inspections which , in the
         large firms at least , are proceeding constantly ; in practice actual
         output is compared with the figures given in the returns .
         The checks axe made by inspection teams consisting of engineers and
         accountants ( see 1,1 above); their function is to monitor the production
         process at the firm itself and compare their own findings with the firm 's
         return .
         The checks cover :
         – total output of crude steel ( ordinary and special );
         – output of rolled products of the categories specified in the Decision ;
         – deliveries of rolled products in those categories .
         The figures obtained from the telex returns and from the inspectors * own
         checks are fed into the computer in Luxembourg , where a special programme
         has been designed to calculate the quotas and check that output at each
         firm is within the limits .
III .    The Commission accordingly requests the budgetary authority to approve
         the transfer of 4*8 million ECU from Chapter 33 to Article 262 of the
         general budget for 1981 .