CELEX: 51981DC0240
Language: en
Date: 1981-05-07
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 9/81 (non-compulsory expenditure)

ARCHIVES HISTORIQUES
DE LA COMMISSION
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COM (81) 240
Vol. 1981/0085
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GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1981                           COM(81)240 final
SECTION III - COMMISSION
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GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1981
SECTION III - COMMISSION
                  TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 9/81
                      ( non-compulsory expenditure )
FROM CHAPTER 101    -   CONTINGENCY RESERVE
TO CHAPTER 26       - EXPENDITURE ON STUDIES , SURVEYS AND COiv oULTATIONS
Article 262         –   Comprehensive Comnrani-ty studies and general surveys
                                                             900 000 ECU
The Financial Controller approved this proposal on 5 May 1981 in accordance
with Article 21 (4 ) of the Financial Regulation and certified that
appropriations are available .
 ---pagebreak---                                   GROUNDS
 1 . On 4 March the Commission submitted Transfer No 2/ 81 * Thich involved ,
 inter alia , a transfer of 1 million ECU from Chapter 101 to Article 262
to finance checks on steel production quotas .
3y letter dated 10 April, Parliament 's Secretary–General informed the President
 of the Council that the Committee on Budgets had not authorized the transfer
although it would reconsider the matter when the Commission submitted a
request revised in the light of the Committee 's discussions .
The present request seeks to meet the Committee 's requirements .
 2 . On 31 October the Commission issued Decision 2794/8o/ECSC introducing
a scheme of production quotas to 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 SOfo of Community outp i are involved .
3 . 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 by telex of their output of steel products
covered by Decision 2794/8o/EC3C ; the daily returns are followed by weekly
and monthly telfex returns giving total output for the relevant period ,
with corrections if necessary .
These returns are then 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 are made Tjy inspection teams consisting of engineers and accountants
their function is to monitor the production process at the firm itself and
compare their own findings with the firm 's return .
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– 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 .   To be effective , these checks must be carried
out frequently and by highly-qualified experts .
4 . 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
ECSC , is financed from Article 262 of the general budget ( Community studies
and surveys ).
5.  At the beginning of the year the Commission provisionally earmarked
1.2 million ECU from Article 262 for these checks .
6.  On 24 April Parliament 's Committee on Budgets gave a favourable
opinion accompanied by a number of comments and suggestions on the
provisional transfer (No 7/81 ) of 4*8 million ECU from Chapter 33 "to
Article 262 to finance these checks .
7.  This leaves 1 million ECU outstanding.     The Commission has however
renegotiated some clauses' relating to fees in the contracts and the
resulting reduction in expenditure means that 900 000 ECU should suffice .
The Commission considers that the unexpected nature of this operation
justifies a transfer of appropriations from Chapter 101 ( Contingency
reserve ) .
8 . The Commission therefore requests the budgetary authority to approve
a transfer of 900 000 ECU to Article 262 from appropriations entered in
Chapter 101 of the 1981 budget .