CELEX: 32013D0046(01)
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-06 00:00:00
Title: 2013/796/EU: Decision of the European Central Bank of 6 December 2013 on the approval of the volume of coin issuance in 2014 (ECB/2013/46)

21.12.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 349/109
            
         DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
   of 6 December 2013
   on the approval of the volume of coin issuance in 2014
   (ECB/2013/46)
   (2013/796/EU)
   THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 128(2) and Article 140(2) thereof,
   Having regard to Council Decision 2013/387/EU of 9 July 2013 on the adoption by Latvia of the euro on 1 January 2014 (1), and in particular Article 1 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               The European Central Bank (ECB) has the exclusive right from 1 January 1999 to approve the volume of coins issued by the Member States whose currency is the euro.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               The derogation in favour of Latvia referred to in Article 4 of the 2003 Act of Accession has been abrogated with effect from 1 January 2014.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               The 17 Member States whose currency is the euro and Latvia have submitted to the ECB for approval their estimates of the volume of euro coins to be issued in 2014, supplemented by explanatory notes on the forecasting methodology,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
   Article 1
   Approval of the volume of euro coins to be issued in 2014
   The ECB hereby approves the volume of euro coins to be issued by the Member States whose currency is the euro in 2014 as described in the following table:
   
               (EUR million)
            
         
                
            
            
               Issuance of coins intended for circulation and issuance of collector coins (not intended for circulation) in 2014
            
         
               Belgium
            
            
               24,925
            
         
               Germany
            
            
               655
            
         
               Estonia
            
            
               11,14
            
         
               Ireland
            
            
               48,96
            
         
               Greece
            
            
               6,856
            
         
               Spain
            
            
               201,24
            
         
               France
            
            
               267
            
         
               Italy
            
            
               58,36
            
         
               Cyprus
            
            
               5,1
            
         
               Luxembourg
            
            
               45
            
         
               Malta
            
            
               10,04
            
         
               Netherlands
            
            
               97,5
            
         
               Latvia
            
            
               80,91
            
         
               Austria
            
            
               247
            
         
               Portugal
            
            
               20,4
            
         
               Slovenia
            
            
               12
            
         
               Slovakia
            
            
               21,4
            
         
               Finland
            
            
               60
            
         Article 2
   Final provision
   This Decision is addressed to the Member States whose currency is the euro and Latvia.
   
      Done at Frankfurt am Main, 6 December 2013.
      
         
            The President of the ECB
         
         Mario DRAGHI
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 195, 18.7.2013, p. 24.